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The tunic is brought. Pisthetaerus and the three gods depart.
Chorus
Singing.
At Phanae, near the [1695] Clepsydra, there dwells a people who have neither faith nor law, the Englottogastors, who reap, sow, pluck the vines and the figs with their tongues; [1700] they belong to a barbaric race, and among them the Philippi and the Gorgiases are to be found; 'tis these Englottogastorian Philippi who introduced the custom all over Attica [1705] of cutting out the tongue separately at sacrifices.
Aristophanes. Birds. The Complete Greek Drama, vol. 2. Eugene O'Neill, Jr. New York. Random House. 1938.
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