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Lysistrata, say, what oath are we to swear?

What oath? Why, in Æschylus, they sacrifice a sheep, and swear over a buckler; we will do the same.

No, Lysistrata, one cannot swear peace over a buckler, surely.

What other oath do you prefer?

Let’s take a white horse, and sacrifice it, and swear on its entrails.

But where get a white horse from?

Well, what oath shall we take then?

Listen to me. Let’s set a great black bowl on the ground; let’s sacrifice a skin of Thasian wine into it, and take oath not to add one single drop of water.

Ah! that’s an oath pleases me more than I can say.

Let them bring me a bowl and a skin of wine.