EURIPIDES
Odysseus
Then bring out your cheese, or some lambs.
Silenus
Right away.
I don't give a hoot for any master.
I would go mad for one cup of that wine!
I'd give away the herds of all the Cyclopes. 165
Once I get drunk and happy, I'd go jump
in the sea off the Leucadian rock!
The man who doesn't like to drink is mad.
Why, when you're drunk, you stand up stiff down here
(Gestures.)
and then get yourself a fistful of breast 170
and browse on the soft field ready to your hands.
You dance, and goodbye to troubles. Well then,
why shouldn't I adore a drink like that
and be damned to the stupid Cyclops
with his eye in the middle?
(He enters the cave.)
Coryphaeus
Listen, Odysseus, we'd like a word with you. 175
Odysseus
By all means. We are all friends here.
Coryphaeus
Did you take Helen when you took Troy?
Odysseus
We rooted out the whole race of Priam.
Coryphaeus
When you took that woman, did you all take turns
and bang her? She liked variety in men, 180
the fickle bitch! Why, the sight of a man
with embroidered pants and a golden chain
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