'In we row, bringing more Euripides!'"

All the crowd, as they lined the harbour now,

"More of Euripides!"—took up the cry.

We landed; the whole city, soon astir,

Came rushing out of gates in common joy

To the suburb temple; there they stationed me

O' the topmost step; and plain I told the play,

Just as I saw it; what the actors said,

And what I saw, or thought I saw the while,

At our Kameiros theatre, clean scooped