as he lies blind drunk across the table. He's an abusive sot, who rushes in with a company of happy revellers enjoying all sorts of delightful things, and brings with him nothing but disaster— he knocks things over, spills wine, and fights.
I often called on him to settle down: ”Why not sit here, and take this cup of wine
as a mark of friendship.” But he still burned our vineyard poles and, what is much worse, forcibly poured out all the wine we had.
This man, on the other hand, takes good care to serve a sumptuous dinner and then, proud of what he’s done, scatters these feathers before his door to show us how he lives.
O peaceful Reconciliation, companion
of fair Aphrodite and the loving Graces we little knew the beauty of your face!
Would that Eros, with flowers in his hair— the way he is depicted in that painting— might seize the two of us, you and me, and bring us together in happy union. Perhaps you think I am too old for you, but I fancy I could still embrace you and tumble you three times—first, I would plant a long row of vines, and then, beside them,
some fresh tender shoots of fig, and thirdly, a row of cultivated grapes. Old as I am,
there will be olive trees in every field, so that we'll always have supplies of oil to rub across our skin at each new moon.
HERALD Listen, you people! As was the custom
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