In the god's temple, now in much repute.

That temple-service trust me to describe—

Cheaters and choused, the god, his brace of girls,

Their snake, and how they manage to snap gifts

'And consecrate the same into a bag,'

For whimsies done away with in the dark!

As if, a stone's throw from that theatre

Whereon I thus unmask their dupery,

The thing were not religious and august!

"Of Sophokles himself—nor word nor sign