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   The Frogs

(CHARON gives the word for rowing and marks the time.

A CHORUS OF FROG is heard off stage.)

          FROGS

O brood of the mere and the spring,

Gather together and sing

From the depths of your throat

By the side of the boat,

Co-ȁx, as we move in a ring;

As in Limnae we sang the divine

Nyseian Giver of Wine,

When the people in lots

With their sanctified Pots

Came reeling around my shrine,

Co-ȁx, co-ȁx, co-ȁx,

Brekekekex co-ȁx.

                      from “The Frogs” by Aristophanes(B.C 445?-B.C 385?)

# With his slave Xanthias accompanying him he soon reaches the Acherusian lake and is ferried across by Charon while the Chorus of Frogs sings lyrics of the rain and the marshes. Xanthias has had to walk around the lake, but he meets his master on the other side, and shortly the real Chorus of the play, composed of initiates into the Mysteries, appears.