Εἴπερ ἐκ πεύκης γε κἀγὼ καὶ ξύλων ἐπηγνύμην
if indeed I too was constructed out of pine and timbers
Translated by David Whitehead31 Jul 2005Vetting: high4 revisions
Translation
Aristophanes [writes this].1 As if he said: if indeed I too am [made] out of human beings. For he is personifying the ships, and is calling the elderly ones old women and the ones which have not sailed virgins. So he very wittily compared chill with chill.