Crows take him!—in your Kassiterides?

Half-doing his work, leaving mine untouched,

That were the failure! Here I stand, heart-whole,

No Thamuris!

"Well thought of, Thamuris!

Has zeal, pray, for 'best friend' Euripides

Allowed you to observe the honor done

His elder rival, in our Poikilé?

You don't know? Once and only once, trod stage,

Sang and touched lyre in person, in his youth,