Frogs. Brekeke-kesh, koash, koash!
We defy your oar, and you.
Charon. Hold! We’re ashore. Now shift your oar.
Get out. Now pay your fare.
Bacchus. There—there it is—the twopence.
—The Frogs.
Another play of Aristophanes is The Birds.
The plot of this is simply that two Athenians, disgusted with the state of things in their native city, form the idea of building a city where the birds shall regain their old traditional supremacy.
The proposal is happily received by the birds and the city of Nephelococyggia, or Cloud-cuckoo-town is the result.
It was merely a burlesque on the Athenians who were given to building castles in the air.