ARISTOPHANES' FROGS
25
Until your efforts at last relax:
Brekekekex co-äx, co-äx!!
[No answer from the Frogs.
Brekekekex co-äx, co-äx!!!
I knew in the end I should stop your quacks!
[The boat has now reached the further shore.
Charon.
Easy there! Stop her! Lay her alongside.—
Now pay your fare and go.
Dionysus.
There are the obols.
[Dionysus gets out. The boat and Charon disappear. Dionysus peers about him.
Ho, Xanthias! . . . Where's Xanthias?—Is that you?
Xanthias (from the darkness).
Hullo!
Dionysus.
Come this way.
Xanthias (entering).
Oh, I'm glad to see you!
Dionysus (looking round).
Well, and what have we here?
Xanthias.
Darkness—and mud.
Dionysus.
Did you see any of the perjurers here,
And father-beaters, as he said we should?
