HERALD The ambassadors, who are returne...

The Acharnians

Dicaeopolis Herald Ambassador

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HERALD ignoring this; loudly

The ambassadors, who are returned from the Court of the King!

DICAEOPOLIS

Of what King? I am sick of all those fine birds, the peacock ambassadors and their swagger.

HERALD

Silence!

DICAEOPOLIS as he perceives the entering ambassadors dressed in the Persian mode

Oh! oh! By Ecbatana, what a costume!

AMBASSADOR pompously

During the archonship of Euthymenes, you sent us to the Great King on a salary of two drachmae per diem.

DICAEOPOLIS aside

Ah! those poor drachmae!

AMBASSADOR

We suffered horribly on the plains of the Cayster, sleeping under tent, stretched deliciously on fine chariots, half dead with weariness.

DICAEOPOLIS aside

And I was very much at ease, lying on the straw along the battlements!

AMBASSADOR

Everywhere we were well received and forced to drink

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