Monday, March 03, 2003
LYSISTRATA
A Second Excerpt
(See "The Lysistrata Project: Reading -- and Taking Action -- for Peace," March 1.)
The Women, Through Lysistrata, Propose Taking Over the Treasury
MAGISTRATE (addressing the women)
I would ask you first why you have barred our gates.
LYSISTRATA
To seize the treasury; no more money, no more war.
MAGISTRATE
Then money is the cause of the war?
LYSISTRATA
And of all our troubles. It was to find occasion to steal that Pisander and all the other agitators who were forever raising revolutions. Well and good! But they'll never get another drachma here.
MAGISTRATE
What do you propose to do then, pray?
LYSISTRATA
You ask me that! Why, we propose to administer the treasury ourselves.
MAGISTRATE
You do?
LYSISTRATA
What is there in that to surprise you? Do we not administer the budget of household expenses?
MAGISTRATE
But that is not the same thing.
LYSISTRATA
How so, not the same thing?
MAGISTRATE
It is the treasury supplies the expenses of the war.
LYSISTRATA
That's our first principle -- no war!
MAGISTRATE
What! And the safety of the city?
LYSISTRATA
We will provide for that.
MAGISTRATE
You?
LYSISTRATA
Yes, we!
MAGISTRATE
What a sorry business!
LYSISTRATA
Yes, we're going to save you, whether you like it or not.
MAGISTRATE
Oh! The impudence of the creatures!
LYSISTRATA
You seem annoyed! But it has to be done, nevertheless.
MAGISTRATE
But it's the very height of iniquity!
LYSISTRATA
(testily)
We're going to save you, my good man.
MAGISTRATE
But if I don't want to be saved?
LYSISTRATA
Why, all the more reason!
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