LYSISTRATA

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Contents
PREFACE FROM THE EDITOR ........................................................................................ 1
FOREWORD ................................................................................................................... 2
THE PERSONS OF THE DRAMA ...................................................................................... 9
LYSISTRATA ................................................................................................................. 10
GLOSSARY ................................................................................................................... 81
 Aristophanes 1

PREFACE FROM THE EDITOR

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2 Lysistrata

FOREWORD

Lysistrata %is the greatest work by Aristophanes. This blank and rash
statement is made that it may be rejected. But first let it be understood that I do
not mean it is a better written work than the Birds or the Frogs, or that (to
descend to the scale of values that will be naturally imputed to me) it has any
more appeal to the collectors of "curious literature" than the Ecclesiazusae or the
Thesmophoriazusae. On the mere grounds of taste I can see an at least equally good
case made out for the Birds. That brightly plumaged fantasy has an aerial wit
and colour all its own. But there are certain works in which a man finds himself
at an angle of vision where there is an especially felicitous union of the aesthetic
and emotional elements which constitute the basic qualities of his uniqueness.
We recognize these works as being welded into a strange unity, as having a
homogeneous texture of ecstasy over them that surpasses any aesthetic surface
of harmonic colour, though that harmony also is understood by the deeper
welling of imagery from the core of creative exaltation. And I think that this
occurs in Lysistrata. The intellectual and spiritual tendrils of the poem are more
truly interwoven, the operation of their centres more nearly unified; and so the
work goes deeper into life. It is his greatest play because of this, because it holds
an intimate perfume of femininity and gives the finest sense of the charm of a
cluster of girls, the sweet sense of their chatter, and the contact of their bodies,
that is to be found before Shakespeare, because that mocking gaiety we call
Aristophanies reaches here its most positive acclamation of life, vitalizing sex
with a deep delight, a rare happiness of the spirit.

Spanish
acclamation: aclamación, aplauso. femininity: feminidad. rash: sarpullido, erupción,
aerial: antena, aéreo. gaiety: alegría. precipitado, salpullido, erupción
brightly: brillantemente. harmonic: armónico. cutánea.
chatter: charlar, charla, castañetear, homogeneous: homogéneo. surpasses: aventaja, sobrepuja.
parlotear. imagery: imaginería. tendrils: zarcillos.
descend: descender, descendéis, imputed: imputado. texture: textura.
desciendo, desciendes, descienden, interwoven: entretejido. unified: unificado.
desciende, desciendan, descendemos, mocking: burlarse, falso, imitar, uniqueness: unicidad.
descended, descienda, bajar. burlas, burlador, burlón, burla, vitalizing: vitalizar, vitalizando,
ecstasy: éxtasis. fingido, escarnecer, engañar, imitado. vivificando.
exaltation: exaltación. perfume: perfume, el perfume, welded: soldado.
felicitous: oportuno, feliz. perfumar. welling: asciende.
 Aristophanes 3

Indeed it is precisely for these reasons that it is not considered Aristophanes'

greatest play.%
To take a case which is sufficiently near to the point in question, to make clear
what I mean: the supremacy of Antony and Cleopatra in the Shakespearean
aesthetic is yet jealously disputed, and it seems silly to the academic to put it up
against a work like Hamlet. But it is the comparatively more obvious achievement
of Hamlet, its surface intellectuality, which made it the favourite of actors and
critics. It is much more difficult to realize the complex and delicately passionate
edge of the former play's rhythm, its tides of hugely wandering emotion, the
restless, proud, gay, and agonized reaction from life, of the blood, of the mind, of
the heart, which is its unity, than to follow the relatively straightforward
definition of Hamlet's nerves. Not that anything derogatory to Hamlet or the
Birds is intended; but the value of such works is not enhanced by forcing them
into contrast with other works which cover deeper and wider nexus of aesthetic
and spiritual material. It is the very subtlety of the vitality of such works as
Antony and Cleopatra and Lysistrata that makes it so easy to undervalue them, to
see only a phallic play and political pamphlet in one, only a chronicle play in a
grandiose method in the other. For we have to be in a highly sensitized
condition before we can get to that subtle point where life and the image mix,
and so really perceive the work at all; whereas we can command the response to
a lesser work which does not call so finely on the full breadth and depth of our
spiritual resources.
I amuse myself at times with the fancy that Homer, Sappho, and
Aristophanes are the inviolable Trinity of poetry, even to the extent of being
reducible to One. For the fiery and lucid directness of Sappho, if her note of
personal lyricism is abstracted, is seen to be an element of Homer, as is the
profoundly balanced humour of Aristophanes, at once tenderly human and
cruelly hard, as of a god to whom all sympathies and tolerances are known, but
who is invulnerable somewhere, who sees from a point in space where the
pressure of earth's fear and pain, and so its pity, is lifted. It is here that the
Shakespearean and Homeric worlds impinge and merge, not to be separated by

abstracted: distraído, abstraído,
abstracto.
agonized: agonizado.
amuse: divertir, diviértete, diviértase,
diviértanse, divértidos, me divierto,
nos divertimos, os divertís, se
divierte, se divierten, te diviertes.
cruelly: desalmadamente, cruelmente,
con crueldad.
delicately: delicadamente.
derogatory: derogatorio, despectivo.
directness: franqueza.
Spanish
grandiose: grandioso.
hugely: enormemente, inmensamente,
muy.
impinge: chocar.
intellectuality: intelectualidad.
inviolable: inquebrantable.
invulnerable: invulnerable.
jealously: celosamente.
lucid: lúcido.
lyricism: lirismo.
nexus: nexo.
pamphlet: folleto, panfleto.
phallic: fálico.
sensitized: sensibilizado.
subtlety: sutileza.
supremacy: supremacía.
tenderly: con ternura, tiernamente,
endeblemente, delicado.
tides: mareas.
undervalue: infravalorar, infravalore,
subestimar, infravaloramos,
infravaloren, infravaloran,
infravaloráis, infravalorad,
infravalora, infravaloro, infravaloras.
4 Lysistrata

any academic classifications. They meet in this sensitivity equally involved and
aloof, sympathetic and arrogant, suffering and joyous; and in this relation we
see Aristophanes as the forerunner of Shakespeare, his only one. We see also that
the whole present aesthetic of earth is based in Homer. We live and grow in the
world of consciousness bequeathed to us by him; and if we grow beyond it
through deeper Shakespearean ardours, it is because those beyond are rooted in
the broad basis of the Homeric imagination. To shift that basis is to find the
marshes of primitive night and fear alone beneath the feet: Christianity.%
And here we return to the question of the immorality of Lysistrata. First we
may inquire: is it possible for a man whose work has so tremendous a
significance in the spiritual development of mankind--and I do not think anyone
nowadays doubts that a work of art is the sole stabilizing force that exists for
life--is it possible for a man who stands so grandly at head of an immense stream
of liberating effort to write an immoral work? Surely the only enduring moral
virtue which can be claimed is for that which moves to more power, beauty and
delight in the future? The plea that the question of changing customs arises is not
valid, for customs ratified by Aristophanes, by Rabelais, by Shakespeare, have
no right to change. If they have changed, let us try immediately to return from
our disgraceful refinements to the nobler and more rarefied heights of lyric
laughter, tragic intensity, and wit, for we cannot have the first two without the
last. And anyhow, how can a social custom claim precedence over the undying
material of the senses and the emotions of man, over the very generating forces
of life?
How could the humanistic emotions, such as pity, justice, sympathy, exist
save as pacifistic quietings of the desire to slay, to hurt, to torment. Where the
desire to hurt is gone pity ceases to be a significant, a central emotion. It must of
course continue to exist, but it is displaced in the spiritual hierarchy; and all that
moves courageously, desirously, and vitally into the action of life takes on a
deeper and subtler intention. Lust, then, which on the lower plane was
something to be very frightened of, becomes a symbol of the highest spirituality.
It is right for Paul to be terrified of sex and so to hate it, because he has so freshly

aloof: apartado.
bequeathed: Legado.
cannot: presente de no poder.
ceases: cesa.
courageously: valientemente.
desirously: ganoso, deseosamente,
anhelosamente.
disgraceful: vergonzoso, deshonroso.
forerunner: precursor.
grandly: grandiosamente,
grandemente.
humanistic: humanístico.
Spanish
immoral: inmoral.
immorality: inmoralidad.
inquire: preguntar, inquirís,
inquieran, inquiere, inquieren,
inquieres, inquiero, inquirid,
inquirimos, inquiera, inquirir.
joyous: jubiloso, gozoso, de jubiloso,
alegre.
liberating: liberando.
lyric: texto.
pacifistic: pacifista.
rarefied: rarefacido, refinado,
rarificarse, rarificar, rarificado,
rarefacer, enrarecido.
ratified: ratificado, revalidado.
slay: matar, matad, matáis, matamos,
matan, maten, mato, mate, matas,
mata.
spirituality: espiritualidad.
stabilizing: estabilizando.
torment: tormento.
undying: eterno, imperecedero.
vitally: sumamente, vitalmente,
esencialmente.
 Aristophanes 5

escaped a bestial condition of life that it threatens to plunge him back if he

listens to one whisper But it is also right for a Shakespeare to suck every drop of
desire from life, for he is building into a higher condition, one se1f-willed, self-
responsible, the discipline of which comes from joy, not fear.%
Sex, therefore, is an animal function, one admits, one insists; it may be only
that. But also in the bewildering and humorous and tragic duality of all life's
energies, it is the bridge to every eternity which is not merely a spectral
condition of earth disembowelled of its lusts. For sex holds the substance of the
image. But we must remember with Heine that Aristophanes is the God of this
ironic earth, and that all argument is apparently vitiated from the start by the
simple fact that Wagner and a rooster are given an analogous method of making
love. And therefore it seems impeccable logic to say that all that is most unlike
the rooster is the most spiritual part of love. All will agree on that, schisms only
arise when one tries to decide what does go farthest from the bird's automatic
mechanism. Certainly not a Dante-Beatrice affair which is only the negation of
the rooster in terms of the swooning bombast of adolescence, the first onslaught
of a force which the sufferer cannot control or inhabit with all the potentialities
of his body and soul. But the rooster is troubled by no dreams of a divine orgy,
no carnival-loves like Beethoven's Fourth Symphony, no heroic and shining lust
gathering and swinging into a merry embrace like the third act of Siegfried. It is
desire in this sense that goes farthest from the animal.
Consciously, no one can achieve the act of love on earth as a completed thing
of grace, with whatever delirium of delight, with whatever ingenious preciosity,
we go through its process. Only as an image of beauty mated in some strange
hermaphroditic ecstasy is that possible. I mean only as a dream projected into a
hypothetical, a real heaven. But on earth we cannot complete the cycle in
consciousness that would give us the freedom of an image in which two
identities mysteriously realize their separate unities by the absorption of a third
thing, the constructive rhythm of a work of art. It is thus that Tristan and Isolde
become wholly distinct individuals, yet wholly submerged in the unity that is
Wagner; and so reconcile life's duality by balancing its opposing laughters in a

Spanish
adolescence: adolescencia. más lejos, remotamente. mysteriously: misteriosamente.
bestial: bestial. hermaphroditic: hermafrodita. negation: negación.
bewildering: desconcertando, humorous: humorístico, cómico. onslaught: asalto.
desconcierto. hypothetical: hipotético. orgy: orgía.
bombast: ampulosidad. impeccable: impecable. preciosity: amaneramiento,
delirium: delirio. ingenious: ingenioso. preciosismo.
disembowelled: desentrañó. inhabit: habitar, habite, habitan, rooster: gallo, el gallo.
duality: dualidad, dos existencias. habito, habitas, habitamos, habitáis, spectral: espectral.
eternity: eternidad. habitad, habita, habiten. submerged: sumergido.
farthest: más lejanamente, a distancia, listens: escucha. suck: chupar, mamar, libar, chupas.
a lo lejos, a lo más, lejano, lejos, a la lust: lujuria. swooning: desmayándose.
mayor distancia, más, más lejano, mated: apareado. vitiated: viciado.
6 Lysistrata

definite form--thereby sending out into life a profounder duality than existed
before. A Platonic equipoise, Nietzsche's Eternal Recurrence--the only real
philosophic problem, therefore one of which these two philosophers alone are
aware.%
But though Wagner with Mathilde Wesendonck in his arms was Tristan in
the arms of Isolde, he did not find a melody instead of a kiss on his lips; he did
not find a progression of harmonies melting through the contours of a warm
beauty with a blur of desperate ecstasies, semitones of desire, he found only the
anxious happiness of any other lover. Nevertheless, he was gathering the
substance of the second act of Tristan und Isolde. And it is this that Plato means
when he says that fornication is something immortal in mortality. He does not
mean that the act itself is a godlike thing, a claim which any bedroom mirror
would quickly deride. He means that it is a symbol, an essential condition, and a
part of something that goes deeper into life than any geometry of earth's absurd,
passionate, futile, and very necessary antics would suggest.
It is a universal fallacy that because works like the comedies of Aristophanes
discuss certain social or ethical problems, they are inspired by them.
Aristophanes wrote to express his vision on life, his delight in life itself seen
behind the warping screen of contemporary event; and for his purposes anything
from Euripides to Cleon served as ground work. Not that he would think in
those terms, naturally: but the rationalizing process that goes on in
consciousness during the creation of a work of art, for all its appearance of
directing matters, is the merest weathercock in the wind of the subconscious
intention. As an example of how utterly it is possible to misunderstand the
springs of inspiration in a poem, we may take the following remark of B. B.
Rogers: It is much to be regretted that the phallus element should be so conspicuous in
this play.... (This) coarseness, so repulsive to ourselves, was introduced, it is impossible
to doubt, for the express purpose of counter-balancing the extreme earnestness and
gravity of the play. It seems so logical, so irrefutable; and so completely
misinterprets every creative force of Aristophanes' Psyche that it certainly
deserves a little admiration. It is in the best academic tradition, and everyone
respects a man for writing so mendaciously. The effort of these castrators is
Spanish
antics: estrafalario, travesuras, futile: fútil. misinterprets: malinterpreta.
bufonadas, grotesco, payasadas. geometry: geometría. misunderstand: entender mal.
aristophanes: aristófanes. godlike: divino. phallus: falo.
blur: borrón. immortal: inmortal, imperecedero. philosophic: filosófico.
coarseness: grosería. irrefutable: irrefutable, irrebatible, progression: progresión.
deride: burlar. irrefragable. rationalizing: racionalizando.
directing: dirigente, dirigir. melody: melodía. regretted: Lamentado.
earnestness: seriedad. melting: deshielo, fusión, derretirse, repulsive: repulsivo.
equipoise: sobrepeso, contrapesar, fundición. subconscious: subconsciente.
contrapeso, equilibrio, sobrepesar. mendaciously: mendazmente, warping: deformación, alabeo.
fallacy: falacia. deshonestamente, falsamente, weathercock: a veleta, giraldilla,
fornication: fornicación. mentirosamente. veleta.
 Aristophanes 7

always to show that the parts considered offensive are not the natural
expression of the poet, that they are dictated externally. They argue that
Shakespeare's coarseness is the result of the age and not personal predilection,
completely ignoring the work of men like Sir Philip Sidney and Spenser, indeed
practically all the pre-Shakespearean writers, in whom none of this so-called
grossness exists. Shakespeare wrote sculduddery because he liked it, and for no
other reason; his sensuality is the measure of his vitality. These liars pretend
similarly that because Rabelais had a humanistic reason for much of his work--
the destructior Mediaevalism, and the Church, which purpose they construe of
course as an effort to purify, etc.--therefore he only put the lewdery to make the
rest palatable, when it should be obvious even to an academic how he glories in
his wild humour.%
What the academic cannot understand is that in such works, while attacking
certain conditions, the creative power of the vigorous spirits is so great that it
overflows and saturates the intellectual conception with their own passionate
sense of life. It is for this reason that these works have an eternal significance. If
Rabelais were merely a social reformer, then the value of his work would not
have outlived his generation. If Lysistrata were but a wise political tract, it would
have merely an historical interest, and it would have ceased spiritually at 4O4
B.C.
But Panurge is as fantastic and fascinating a character now as he was 3OO
years ago, Lysistrata and her girls as freshly bodied as any girl kissed to-day.
Therefore the serious part of the play is that which deals with them, the frivolous
part that in which Rogers detects gravity and earnestness.
Aristophanes is the lord of all who take life as a gay adventure, who defy all
efforts to turn life into a social, economic, or moral abstraction. Is it therefore just
that the critics who, by some dark instinct, unerringly pick out the exact opposite
of any creator's real virtues as his chief characteristics, should praise him as an
idealistic reformer? An "ideal" state of society was the last thing Aristophanes
desired. He wished, certainly, to eliminate inhumanities and baseness; but only
that there might be free play for laughter, for individual happiness.

abstraction: abstracción, robo,
sustracción.
attacking: agredir, atentado, acometer,
atacante, agresor, atacar, ataque.
baseness: bajeza.
construe: interpretar.
defy: desafiar, desafiáis, desafío,
desafíen, desafías, desafiamos,
desafiad, desafía, desafían, desafíe.
detects: detecta.
dictated: dictado.
eternal: eterno.
Spanish
externally: externamente. purifiquen, purifico, purificas,
freshly: no hace mucho tiempo, recién, purifican, purificamos, purificáis,
frescamente. purifique, depurar.
frivolous: frívolo, hueco. reformer: reformador.
grossness: grosería. saturates: satura.
idealistic: idealista. sensuality: sensualidad.
offensive: ofensiva, ofensivo. spiritually: espiritualmente.
outlived: sobrevivido. to-day: hoy.
palatable: sabroso. tract: tracto.
passionate: apasionado. unerringly: infaliblemente,
predilection: predilección. certeramente.
purify: purificar, purifica, purificad, vitality: vitalidad.
8 Lysistrata

Consequently the critics lay the emphasis on the effort to cleanse society, not
the method of laughter. Aristophanes wished to destroy Cleon because that
demagogue failed to realize the poet's conception of dignified government and
tended to upset the stability of Hellas. But it was the stability of life, the
vindication of all individual freedoms, in which he was ultimately interested.%

JACK LINDSAY.

aristophanes: aristófanes.
cleanse: limpiar, limpian, limpio,
limpia, limpias, limpiamos, limpiáis,
limpiad, limpien, limpie.
conception: concepción, concepto.
demagogue: demagogo.
destroy: destruir, destruid,
destruimos, destruís, destruyan,
destruye, destruyen, destruyes,
destruyo, destruya.
dignified: dignificado, digno.
effort: esfuerzo, afán.
Spanish
emphasis: énfasis, realce.
failed: fracasado, no satisfactorio,
fallado.
individual: individuo, individual.
laughter: risa, la risa, carcajada.
lay: poner, colocar, coloque,
colocamos, pongan, ponga, pones,
ponen, ponemos, ponéis, poned.
method: método, procedimiento.
realize: comprender, entender, darse
cuenta de, entended, entiendo,
entiendes, entienden, entiende,
entiendan, entienda, entendemos.
stability: estabilidad.
tended: cuidado, Tendido.
ultimately: finalmente, por fin, al fin,
ultimadamente.
upset: trastornar, indispuesta,
trastorno.
vindication: reivindicación.
wished: deseado.
 Aristophanes 9

THE PERSONS OF THE DRAMA

LYSISTRATA
CALONICE
MYRRHINE
LAMPITO
STRATYLLIS
CHORUS OF WOMEN
MAGISTRATE
CINESIAS SPARTAN
HERALD
ENVOYS
ATHENIANS
PORTER
MARKET IDLERS
CHORUS OF OLD MEN
10 Lysistrata

LYSISTRATA

[LYSISTRATA%stands alone with the Propylaea at her back.]

LYSISTRATA.
If they were trysting for a Bacchanal,
A feast of Pan or Colias or Genetyllis,
The tambourines would block the rowdy streets,
But now there's not a woman to be seen
Except--ah, yes--this neighbour of mine yonder.
[Enter CALONICE.]
Good day Calonice.
CALONICE.
Good day Lysistrata.
But what has vexed you so? Tell me, child.
What are these black looks for? It doesn't suit you
To knit your eyebrows up glumly like that.
LYSISTRATA.
Calonice, it's more than I can bear,
I am hot all over with blushes for our sex.
Men say we're slippery rogues—

alone: solo, único, solamente, sólo.
bear: oso, llevar, el oso, bajista,
producir, dar a luz, parir, portar,
soportar.
block: bloque, manzana, bloquear,
bloqueo, motón, polea, taco.
eyebrows: las cejas.
feast: banquete, fiesta.
glumly: displicentemente,
sombríamente.
hot: caliente, picante, caluroso.
knit: tejer.
Spanish
looks: mira.
mine: mina, mío, minar.
neighbour: vecino.
rogues: pícaros.
rowdy: camorrista.
sex: sexo, el sexo, tener sexo.
slippery: resbaladizo, escurridizo.
streets: calles, las calles.
suit: traje, convenir, el traje, pleito.
vexed: enfadado.
yonder: allí, ahí, aquel.
 Aristophanes 11

CALONICE.
And aren't they right?
LYSISTRATA.
Yet summoned on the most tremendous business
For deliberation, still they snuggle in bed.%
CALONICE.
My dear, they'll come. It's hard for women, you know,
To get away. There's so much to do;
Husbands to be patted and put in good tempers;
Servants to be poked out; children washed;
Or soothed with lullays or fed with mouthfuls of pap.
LYSISTRATA.
But I tell you, here's a far more weighty object.
CALONICE.
What is it all about, dear Lysistrata,
That you've called the women hither in a troop?
What kind of an object is it?
LYSISTRATA.
A tremendous thing!
CALONICE.
And long?
LYSISTRATA.
Indeed, it may be very lengthy.
CALONICE.
Then why aren't they here?
LYSISTRATA.
No man's connected with it;
If that was the case, they'd soon come fluttering along.
No, no. It concerns an object I've felt over
And turned this way and that for sleepless nights.

Spanish
along: a lo largo de, por. pap: papilla. weighty: pesado, importante, grave,
concerns: concierne. patted: tocado. ponderoso, de mucho peso.
connected: conectado, conexo. poked: metido.
dear: caro, querido, estimado. sleepless: insomne.
deliberation: reflexión, deliberación, snuggle: acurrucarse.
consideración, contemplación. soon: pronto, luego.
fed: alimentado, cebado. soothed: calmado.
fluttering: revolotear. summoned: convocado.
hard: duro, difícil, tieso. tremendous: tremendo.
hither: acá. troop: tropa.
lengthy: largo. turned: girado, vuelto, trastornado.
object: objeto, el objeto, objetar. washed: lavado, lavo.
12 Lysistrata

CALONICE.
It must be fine to stand such long attention.%
LYSISTRATA.
So fine it comes to this--Greece saved by Woman!
CALONICE.
By Woman? Wretched thing, I'm sorry for it.
LYSISTRATA.
Our country's fate is henceforth in our hands.
To destroy the Peloponnesians root and branch—
CALONICE.
What could be nobler!
LYSISTRATA.
Wipe out the Bœotians—
CALONICE.
Not utterly. Have mercy on the eels!
LYSISTRATA.
But with regard to Athens, note I'm careful
Not to say any of these nasty things;
Still, thought is free.... But if the women join us
From Peloponnesus and Bœotia, then
Hand in hand we'll rescue Greece.
CALONICE.
How could we do
Such a big wise deed? We women who dwell
Quietly adorning ourselves in a back-room
With gowns of lucid gold and gawdy toilets
Of stately silk and dainty little slippers....
LYSISTRATA.
These are the very armaments of the rescue.
These crocus-gowns, this outlay of the best myrrh,

adorning: decorando.
armaments: armamento.
back-room: trastienda.
comes: Viene.
dainty: fino, amable, delicado,
poquita.
deed: escritura, acto, hecho, hazaña.
dwell: morar, morad, moren, moras,
moráis, moran, moramos, mora,
more, moro, habitar.
fate: destino, suerte, sino, hado.
gold: oro, el oro, de oro.
Spanish
henceforth: de aquí en adelante.
mercy: misericordia, compasión.
myrrh: mirra.
nasty: feo, sucio, horrible, malo,
deshonesto, astuto, horroroso,
desagradable, lúgubre.
ourselves: nosotros mismos.
outlay: desembolso.
regard: mirar, considerar, mira, miran,
miráis, miro, miramos, mirad, miras,
mire, miren.
rescue: salvar, rescate, rescatar,
socorro, salvamento.
root: raíz.
saved: guardado, salvado, ahorrado.
silk: seda, la seda.
stately: majestuoso.
toilets: servicios, aseos, inodoros.
utterly: absolutamente.
we'll: Haremos.
wise: sabio, sensato, guisa.
wretched: miserable, menesteroso,
pobre, infeliz, necesitado,
desdichado.
 Aristophanes 13

Slippers, cosmetics dusting beauty, and robes

With rippling creases of light.%
CALONICE.
Yes, but how?
LYSISTRATA.
No man will lift a lance against another—
CALONICE.
I'll run to have my tunic dyed crocus.
LYSISTRATA.
Or take a shield—
CALONICE.
I'll get a stately gown.
LYSISTRATA.
Or unscabbard a sword—
CALONICE.
Let me buy a pair of slipper.
LYSISTRATA.
Now, tell me, are the women right to lag?
CALONICE.
They should have turned birds, they should have grown wings and flown.
LYSISTRATA.
My friend, you'll see that they are true Athenians.
Always too late. Why, there's not a woman
From the shoreward demes arrived, not one from Salamis.
CALONICE.
I know for certain they awoke at dawn,
And got their husbands up if not their boat sails.

arrived: llegado.
awoke: pret y pp de awake.
beauty: belleza, la belleza.
birds: aves.
boat: barco, bote, barca, el barco.
buy: comprar, compra, procurarse,
adquisición.
cosmetics: cosméticos.
crocus: azafrán.
dawn: amanecer, alba, madrugada,
aurora.
dusting: desempolvamiento, quitar o
Spanish
sacudir el polvo, polvo, desempolvar,
espolvereo.
dyed: colorado, teñido.
flown: volado.
friend: amigo, amiga, el amigo.
gown: vestido, toga.
grown: crecido, aumentado, adulto.
lag: atrasarse, retraso, retardo.
lance: lanza, lanzar.
late: tarde, tardío, tardo.
lift: ascensor, levantar, subir, alzar,
elevar, elevación, levante, desnivel
entre tramos, sustentación.
pair: par, pareja, emparejar.
rippling: ondulación, rizar.
robes: ropaje.
sails: paño.
shield: escudo, blindaje, pantalla,
blindar, proteger.
shoreward: hacia la costa.
slipper: zapatilla, pantufla.
sword: espada.
tunic: túnica.
wings: bastidores, alas.
14 Lysistrata

LYSISTRATA.
And I'd have staked my life the Acharnian dames
Would be here first, yet they haven't come either!
CALONICE.
Well anyhow there is Theagenes' wife
We can expect--she consulted Hecate.
But look, here are some at last, and more behind them.
See ... where are they from?
CALONICE.
From Anagyra they come.%
LYSISTRATA.
Yes, they generally manage to come first.
[Enter MYRRHINE.]
MYRRHINE.
Are we late, Lysistrata? ... What is that?
Nothing to say?
LYSISTRATA.
I've not much to say for you,
Myrrhine, dawdling on so vast an affair.
MYRRHINE.
I couldn't find my girdle in the dark.
But if the affair's so wonderfull, tell us, what is it?
LYSISTRATA.
No, let us stay a little longer till
The Peloponnesian girls and the girls of Bocotia
Are here to listen.
MYRRHINE.
That's the best advice.
Ah, there comes Lampito.
[Enter LAMPITO.]

advice: consejo, noticias,
asesoramiento, publicación, noticia,
el consejo.
affair: asunto, caso, particular,
aventura.
ah: ay.
anyhow: sin embargo.
consulted: consultado.
couldn't: no fue posible.
dark: oscuro, tenebroso.
dawdling: holgazaneando,
malgastando.
Spanish
generally: generalmente.
girdle: cinto, cinturón, pretina, faja.
girls: las muchachas.
haven't: no tener.
late: tarde, tardío, tardo.
listen: escuchar, escuche, escucha,
escuchas, escuchad, escuchen,
escucho, escucháis, escuchamos,
escuchan, oír.
longer: más, más tiempo.
manage: administrar, administras,
administro, administren, administre,
administrad, administráis,
administramos, administra,
administran, mandar.
staked: se emplea una contratuerca de
12 puntos que se apuntala para
asegurarse de que, estacado.
stay: quedarse, quedar, queden,
quede, quedas, quedan, quedamos,
quedáis, quedad, queda, quedo.
till: caja, hasta que, hasta, a que.
vast: vasto.
wife: esposa, mujer, la esposa.
 Aristophanes 15

LYSISTRATA.
Welcome Lampito!
Dear Spartan girl with a delightful face,
Washed with the rosy spring, how fresh you look
In the easy stride of your sleek slenderness,
Why you could strangle a bull!
LAMPITO.
I think I could.
It's frae exercise and kicking high behint.%
LYSISTRATA.
What lovely breasts to own!
LAMPITO.
Oo ... your fingers
Assess them, ye tickler, wi' such tender chucks
I feel as if I were an altar-victim.
LYSISTRATA.
Who is this youngster?
LAMPITO.
A Bœotian lady.
LYSISTRATA.
There never was much undergrowth in Bœotia,
Such a smooth place, and this girl takes after it.
CALONICE.
Yes, I never saw a skin so primly kept.
LYSISTRATA.
This girl?
LAMPITO.
A sonsie open-looking jinker!
She's a Corinthian.

breasts: pecho, pechos, seno.
bull: toro, alcista, el toro.
chucks: bota.
delightful: bonito, lindo, delicioso,
encantador, deleitoso.
fingers: los dedos.
kicking: patear.
lovely: hermoso, bonito, encantador,
agradable, magnífico, adorable, caro,
lindo.
primly: estiradamente, estrictamente.
rosy: rosado.
Spanish
sleek: alisar.
slenderness: afilamiento, delgadez,
esbeltez, lo remoto.
smooth: liso, plano, alisar, suavizar,
suave.
spring: fuente, muelle, saltar,
primavera, resorte, la primavera,
manantial, brincar.
strangle: estrangular, estranguláis,
estrangulen, estrangulamos,
estrangulan, estrangulo, estrangula,
estrangulas, estrangulad, estrangule.
stride: paso, paso largo, zancada.
tender: tierno, oferta, dulce, subasta,
proposición, ofrecer, destajo,
licitación, presentar, reproducir,
retratar.
tickler: libro de vencimientos,
vademécum.
undergrowth: maleza.
ye: usted, vosotros, ustedes, vosotras,
tú, los, lo, las, la, el, vos.
youngster: joven, jovencito,
jovenzuelo.
16 Lysistrata

LYSISTRATA.
Yes, isn't she
Very open, in some ways particularly.%
LAMPITO.
But who's garred this Council o' Women to meet here?
LYSISTRATA.
I have.
LAMPITO.
Propound then what you want o' us.
MYRRHINE.
What is the amazing news you have to tell?
LYSISTRATA.
I'll tell you, but first answer one small question.
MYRRHINE.
As you like.
LYSISTRATA.
Are you not sad your children's fathers
Go endlessly off soldiering afar
In this plodding war? I am willing to wager
There's not one here whose husband is at home.
CALONICE.
Mine's been in Thrace, keeping an eye on Eucrates
For five months past.
MYRRHINE.
And mine left me for Pylos
Seven months ago at least.
LAMPITO.
And as for mine
No sooner has he slipped out frae the line
He straps his shield and he's snickt off again.
Spanish
afar: lejos. husband: marido, esposo, el esposo. plodding: trabajando, extrusión,
amazing: asombrando, asombroso, keeping: guardando, vigilando, laborioso.
maravilloso, maravillando, custodia, cuidado, conservando, sad: triste, afligido.
pasmando, pasmoso. preservando. shield: escudo, blindaje, pantalla,
answer: respuesta, responder, least: menos, mínimo, menor. blindar, proteger.
contestar, contestación, responder a, meet: encontrar, encontrad, encuentro, slipped: resbalado.
corresponder al, contestar a, la encuentren, encuentre, encuentras, sooner: más pronto.
respuesta, réplica. encuentran, encontramos, encontráis, straps: abrazaderas, cintas.
endlessly: interminablemente, encuentra, quedar. wager: apuesta, apostar, la apuesta.
inacabablemente, sin fin, news: noticias, noticia, nueva, las ways: maneras.
eternamente. noticias. willing: dispuesto, deseoso.
eye: ojo, el ojo, ojear, mirar. o: oxígeno.
 Aristophanes 17

LYSISTRATA.
And not the slightest glitter of a lover!
And since the Milesians betrayed us, I've not seen
The image of a single upright man
To be a marble consolation to us.
Now will you help me, if I find a means
To stamp the war out.
MYRRHINE.
By the two Goddesses, Yes!
I will though I've to pawn this very dress
And drink the barter-money the same day.%
CALONICE.
And I too though I'm split up like a turbot
And half is hackt off as the price of peace.
LAMPITO.
And I too! Why, to get a peep at the shy thing
I'd clamber up to the tip-top o' Taygetus.
LYSISTRATA.
Then I'll expose my mighty mystery.
O women, if we would compel the men
To bow to Peace, we must refrain—
MYRRHINE.
From what?
O tell us!
LYSISTRATA.
Will you truly do it then?
MYRRHINE.
We will, we will, if we must die for it.
LYSISTRATA.
We must refrain from every depth of love....

betrayed: traicionado.
bow: proa, arco, reverencia, inclinarse,
lazo.
clamber: trepar.
compel: obligar, obligas, obliga,
obligad, obligáis, obligan, obligo,
obliguen, obligamos, obligue, forzar.
consolation: consuelo.
depth: profundidad, hondura, puntal,
fondo.
expose: exponer, exponen, expongo,
expongan, expones, exponemos,
Spanish
exponéis, exponed, expon, expone,
exponga.
glitter: lustre.
lover: querido, amante, novio.
marble: mármol, canica, jaspear.
mighty: poderoso.
mystery: misterio, el misterio.
pawn: empeñar, peón, prenda,
pignorar.
peace: paz, la paz.
peep: ojeada, pie, piara, piar, pío pío,
pío, mirar furtivamente, mirar de
reojo, mirar, mirada furtiva, mirada.
refrain: estribillo, abstenerse.
shy: tímido, vergonzoso.
split: dividir, partir, ofender,
henderse, división, separarse, grieta,
resquebrajarse, raja, separar, partido.
stamp: sello, timbrar, sellar, cuño,
estampilla, sello de correos, marca,
estampillar, estampa, estampar, el
sello.
turbot: rodaballo.
upright: vertical, montante, derecho.
18 Lysistrata

Why do you turn your backs? Where are you going?

Why do you bite your lips and shake your heads?
Why are your faces blanched? Why do you weep?
Will you or won't you, or what do you mean?
MYRRHINE.
No, I won't do it. Let the war proceed.%
CALONICE.
No, I won't do it. Let the war proceed.
LYSISTRATA.
You too, dear turbot, you that said just now
You didn't mind being split right up in the least?
CALONICE.
Anything else? O bid me walk in fire
But do not rob us of that darling joy.
What else is like it, dearest Lysistrata?
LYSISTRATA.
And you?
MYRRHINE.
O please give me the fire instead.
LYSISTRATA.
Lewd to the least drop in the tiniest vein,
Our sex is fitly food for Tragic Poets,
Our whole life's but a pile of kisses and babies.
But, hardy Spartan, if you join with me
All may be righted yet. O help me, help me.
LAMPITO.
It's a sair, sair thing to ask of us, by the Twa,
A lass to sleep her lane and never fill
Love's lack except wi' makeshifts.... But let it be.
Peace maun be thought of first.

babies: criaturas, bebes.
backs: espaldas.
bid: ofrecer, licitación, postura, oferta,
solicitar, licitar, pedir, demandar,
rogar, puja.
bite: morder, mordisco, mordedura,
bocado, picar, mordida, picadura,
picada.
blanched: blanqueado.
darling: querido, amado.
faces: Caras.
fill: llenar, relleno, rellenar, ocupar,
Spanish
llenado. pile: montón, pilote, pila, pelo,
fitly: convenientemente, amontonar, estaca.
adecuadamente. proceed: proceder, actuar.
hardy: robusto, fuerte, resistente, rob: robar, robo, robe, robamos, roba,
audaz. robáis, roban, robas, roben, robad,
heads: cabezas, administradores. despojar.
joy: alegría. shake: sacudir, sacuda, sacudimos,
kisses: besos. sacudís, sacudid, sacudes, sacuden,
lane: calleja, senda, carril, pista, sacude, sacudan, sacudo, sacudida.
camino. vein: vena, veta, filón.
lass: muchacha, chica, la muchacha. weep: llorar, llore, lloren, llora, lloro,
lips: labios, los labios. lloras, lloran, lloramos, lloráis, llorad.
 Aristophanes 19

LYSISTRATA.
My friend, my friend!
The only one amid this herd of weaklings.%
CALONICE.
But if--which heaven forbid--we should refrain
As you would have us, how is Peace induced?
LYSISTRATA.
By the two Goddesses, now can't you see
All we have to do is idly sit indoors
With smooth roses powdered on our cheeks,
Our bodies burning naked through the folds
Of shining Amorgos' silk, and meet the men
With our dear Venus-plats plucked trim and neat.
Their stirring love will rise up furiously,
They'll beg our arms to open. That's our time!
We'll disregard their knocking, beat them off—
And they will soon be rabid for a Peace.
I'm sure of it.
LAMPITO.
Just as Menelaus, they say,
Seeing the bosom of his naked Helen
Flang down the sword.
CALONICE.
But we'll be tearful fools
If our husbands take us at our word and leave us.
LYSISTRATA.
There's only left then, in Pherecrates' phrase,
To flay a skinned dog--flay more our flayed desires.
CALONICE.
Bah, proverbs will never warm a celibate.

amid: en medio de, entre.
beg: mendigar, mendigas, mendiguen,
mendigan, mendigáis, mendiga,
mendigad, mendigamos, mendigo,
mendigue, pedir limosna.
bosom: pecho, seno.
can't: no puede.
celibate: célibe.
cheeks: mejillas.
disregard: desatender, descuido.
flay: desollar, desuella, desuellen,
desuelle, desuellas, desuellan,
Spanish
desollad, desollamos, desolláis,
desuello.
flayed: desollado.
furiously: sañudo, reñidamente,
rabiosamente, furiosamente.
herd: manada, grupo, rebaño.
idly: ociosamente.
i'm: soy.
indoors: dentro, dentro de.
induced: inducido.
plucked: arrancado.
powdered: empolvar, empolvarse, en
polvo, pólvora, polvo, polvorear,
pulverizado, pulverizar.
proverbs: proverbios.
rabid: rabioso.
shining: brillante, luminoso.
skinned: descortezado, pelado.
stirring: agitación, conmovedor,
emocionante, inspirador, removida,
turbulento.
tearful: lloroso, lacrimoso.
trim: en buen estado, recortar,
adornar, guarnecer.
20 Lysistrata

But what avail will your scheme be if the men

Drag us for all our kicking on to the couch?
LYSISTRATA.
Cling to the doorposts.%
CALONICE.
But if they should force us?
LYSISTRATA.
Yield then, but with a sluggish, cold indifference.
There is no joy to them in sullen mating.
Besides we have other ways to madden them;
They cannot stand up long, and they've no delight
Unless we fit their aim with merry succour.
CALONICE.
Well if you must have it so, we'll all agree.
LAMPITO.
For us I ha' no doubt. We can persuade
Our men to strike a fair an' decent Peace,
But how will ye pitch out the battle-frenzy
O' the Athenian populace?
LYSISTRATA.
I promise you
We'll wither up that curse.
LAMPITO.
I don't believe it.
Not while they own ane trireme oared an' rigged,
Or a' those stacks an' stacks an' stacks O' siller.
LYSISTRATA.
I've thought the whole thing out till there's no flaw.
We shall surprise the Acropolis today.
That is the duty set the older dames.

avail: aprovechar.
besides: además, demás, además de,
amén de.
couch: canapé, dyschatell, cama, sofá,
sofá cama.
curse: maldecir, maldición, jurar.
decent: decente, conveniente.
delight: deleitar, delicia, encantar.
don't: no.
flaw: grieta, falla, quebraja,
hendidura, desperfecto,
imperfección.
Spanish
ha: ah, decir ah, ja.
indifference: indiferencia.
madden: enloquecer, enloquezco,
enloquece, enloqueced, enloquecéis,
enloquecemos, enloquecen,
enloqueces, enloquezca, enloquezcan.
mating: unión, apareamiento.
merry: alegre.
oared: provisto de remos.
persuade: convencer, convences,
convence, convenzan, convenzo,
convenza, convencemos, convenced,
convencéis, convencen, persuadir.
populace: populacho.
rigged: aparejado.
sluggish: lento, flojo.
succour: prestar ayuda, socorrer,
asistir, acudir, socorro.
sullen: malhumorado, triste.
trireme: trirreme.
wither: marchitarse, marchitar,
marchite, marchito, marchitas,
marchiten, marchitan, marchita,
marchitáis, marchitamos, marchitad.
 Aristophanes 21

While we sit here talking, they are to go

And under pretence of sacrificing, seize it.%
LAMPITO.
Certie, that's fine; all's warking for the best.
LYSISTRATA.
Now quickly, Lampito, let us tie ourselves
To this high purpose as tightly as the hemp of words
Can knot together.
LAMPITO.
Set out the terms in detail
And we'll a' swear to them.
LYSISTRATA.
Of course.... Well then
Where is our Scythianess? Why are you staring?
First lay the shield, boss downward, on the floor
And bring the victim's inwards.
CAILONICE.
But, Lysistrata, What is this oath that we're to swear?
LYSISTRATA.
What oath! In Aeschylus they take a slaughtered sheep
And swear upon a buckler. Why not we?
CALONICE.
O Lysistrata, Peace sworn on a buckler!
LYSISTRATA.
What oath would suit us then?
CALONICE.
Something burden bearing
Would be our best insignia.... A white horse!
Let's swear upon its entrails.

bearing: cojinete, abolas, rodamiento.
boss: jefe, caudillo, patrón, dueño,
comandante, amo, capitán, el jefe,
protuberancia.
buckler: Defensa, Escudo, Rodela,
tapa de escobén.
burden: carga, cargar, peso,
gravamen, agobio, gravar.
detail: detalle, pormenor.
downward: descendente, hacia abajo,
de arriba hacia abajo.
entrails: entrañas.
Spanish
floor: piso, suelo, el suelo, pavimento.
hemp: cáñamo.
horse: caballo, el caballo, potro, cabio.
inwards: tripas, hacia el centro, hacia
adentro.
knot: nudo, correlimos gordo, lazo.
oath: juramento.
pretence: pretensión, derecho.
sacrificing: sacrificar.
seize: agarrar, coger, agarro, agarre,
agarras, agarra, agarren, agarran,
agarramos, agarráis, agarrad.
sheep: oveja, la oveja.
sit: sentarse, estar sentado, sentar.
slaughtered: matado.
staring: llamativo.
swear: jurar, jura, jurad, juráis,
juramos, juran, juras, juren, juro, jure,
maldecir.
sworn: jurado.
tie: corbata, atar, liar, lazo, ligar, cinta,
tirante, ligadura, atadura.
tightly: apretadamente,
herméticamente.
22 Lysistrata

LYSISTRATA.
A horse indeed!
CALONICE.
Then what will symbolise us?
LYSISTRATA.
This, as I tell you—
First set a great dark bowl upon the ground
And disembowel a skin of Thasian wine,
Then swear that we'll not add a drop of water.%
LAMPITO.
Ah, what aith could clink pleasanter than that!
LYSISTRATA.
Bring me a bowl then and a skin of wine.
CALONICE.
My dears, see what a splendid bowl it is;
I'd not say No if asked to sip it off.
LYSISTRATA.
Put down the bowl. Lay hands, all, on the victim.
Skiey Queen who givest the last word in arguments,
And thee, O Bowl, dear comrade, we beseech:
Accept our oblation and be propitious to us.
CALONICE.
What healthy blood, la, how it gushes out!
LAMPITO.
An' what a leesome fragrance through the air.
LYSISTRATA.
Now, dears, if you will let me, I'll speak first.
CALONICE.
Only if you draw the lot, by Aphrodite!

add: sumar, sumad, sumáis, sumamos,
suman, sumas, sume, sumen, suma,
sumo, agregar.
blood: sangre, la sangre.
bowl: tazón, cuenco, escudilla, fuente,
pelvis, palangana, copa.
clink: tintín.
comrade: amigo, camarada.
dears: estimado.
disembowel: desentrañen, destripen,
destripe, destripas, destripan,
destripamos, destripáis, destripo,
Spanish
destripad, desentrañas, desentrañan.
draw: dibujar, dibujáis, dibujad,
dibujen, dibuje, dibujas, dibujamos,
dibuja, dibujan, dibujo, tirar.
drop: gota, caer, disminuir, amainar,
decrecer, menguar, caída, descenso,
dejar caer.
fragrance: fragancia.
hands: las manos.
healthy: sano, saludable.
la: la, Loisiana.
lot: lote, porción, solar.
oblation: oblación, oblada, ofrenda,
sacrificio, oblata.
propitious: propicio, favorable.
sip: sorber, sorbo.
skin: piel, cáscara, la piel, cutis, pelar.
speak: hablar, hablamos, hablo,
hablas, habláis, hablad, hablen, habla,
hablan, hable.
splendid: espléndido.
symbolise: simbolice.
thee: ustedes, te, vosotros, usted, tú.
wine: vino, el vino.
 Aristophanes 23

LYSISTRATA.
SO, grasp the brim, you, Lampito, and all.
You, Calonice, repeat for the rest each word I say.
Then you must all take oath
And pledge your arms to the same stern conditions—
LYSISTRATA.
To husband or lover I'll not open arms
CALONICE.
To husband or lover I'll not open arms
LYSISTRATA.
Though love and denial may enlarge his charms.%
CALONICE.
Though love and denial may enlarge his charms.
O, O, my knees are failing me, Lysistrata!
LYSISTRATA.
But still at home, ignoring him, I'll stay,
CALONICE.
But still at home, ignoring him, I'll stay,
LYSISTRATA.
Beautiful, clad in saffron silks all day.
CALONICE.
Beautiful, clad in saffron silks all day.
LYSISTRATA.
If then he seizes me by dint of force,
CALONICE.
If then he seizes me by dint of force,
LYSISTRATA.
I'll give him reason for a long remorse.

arms: brazos, los brazos, armas.
brim: borde, ala, baranda.
charms: amuletos.
clad: vestido, pret y pp de clothe.
conditions: condiciones.
denial: negación, denegación.
dint: esfuerzo grande, abolladura,
abollar, abollarse, chichón, golpe,
mellar, mella, fuerza, fuerza de.
enlarge: ampliar, amplíe, amplía,
amplíen, amplías, amplían,
ampliamos, ampliáis, ampliad,
Spanish
amplío, agrandar. remorse: remordimiento.
failing: fracaso, falta. repeat: repetir, repita, repitan, repito,
force: fuerza, forzar, obligar, virtud. repites, repetid, repite, repetís,
grasp: agarrar, asir, coger, empuñar, repetimos, repiten, reiterar.
asimiento, aferrar. rest: descansar, descanso, resto,
ignoring: ignorando. detrito, desechos, reposar, reposo.
knees: rodillas. saffron: azafrán.
oath: juramento. seizes: agarra, ase.
pledge: prenda, dinero del envase, silks: gorra y chaquetilla de jockey.
prometer, pignoración, empeñar. stern: popa, severo.
reason: motivo, causa, razón, lugar, word: palabra, la palabra, vocablo,
razonar. término, formular.
24 Lysistrata

CALONICE.
I'll give him reason for a long remorse.%
LYSISTRATA.
I'll never lie and stare up at the ceiling,
CALONICE.
I'll never lie and stare up at the ceiling,
LYSISTRATA.
Nor like a lion on all fours go kneeling.
CALONICE.
Nor like a lion on all fours go kneeling.
LYSISTRATA.
If I keep faith, then bounteous cups be mine.
CALONICE.
If I keep faith, then bounteous cups be mine.
LYSISTRATA.
If not, to nauseous water change this wine.
CALONICE.
If not, to nauseous water change this wine.
LYSISTRATA.
Do you all swear to this?
MYRRHINE.
We do, we do.
LYSISTRATA.
Then I shall immolate the victim thus. [She drinks.]
CALONICE.
Here now, share fair, haven't we made a pact?
Let's all quaff down that friendship in our turn.
LAMPITO.
Hark, what caterwauling hubbub's that?

bounteous: abundante.
caterwauling: maullidos, aullidos,
maullido, maullar, chillidos.
ceiling: techo, el techo, tope, cielo
raso.
cups: taza.
fair: justo, rubio, mercado, feria,
verbena, bazar, equitativo, hermoso.
faith: fe, la fe.
fours: cuatros.
friendship: amistad.
haven't: no tener.
Spanish
immolate: inmolar, inmole, inmolen,
inmolan, inmolo, inmolas, inmoláis,
inmolad, inmola, inmolamos.
kneeling: arrodillar, arrodillarse, estar
de rodillas, arrodillado, de rodillas,
arrodillando.
let's: permitanos.
lie: mentir, mentira, yacer, estar
tendido, embuste, echarse.
lion: león.
mine: mina, mío, minar.
nauseous: nauseabundo.
pact: pacto.
quaff: beber a grandes tragos.
share: compartir, acción, parte, dividir,
ración, cuota, lote.
stare: mirar fijamente, mirada fija.
swear: jurar, jura, jurad, juráis,
juramos, juran, juras, juren, juro, jure,
maldecir.
turn: girar, gira, giro, giráis, giramos,
giran, giras, gire, giren, girad, vuelta.
victim: víctima.
wine: vino, el vino.
 Aristophanes 25

LYSISTRATA.
As I told you,
The women have appropriated the citadel.
So, Lampito, dash off to your own land
And raise the rebels there. These will serve as hostages,
While we ourselves take our places in the ranks
And drive the bolts right home.%
CALONICE.
But won't the men March straight against us?
LYSISTRATA.
And what if they do?
No threat shall creak our hinges wide, no torch
Shall light a fear in us; we will come out
To Peace alone.
CALONICE.
That's it, by Aphrodite!
As of old let us seem hard and obdurate.
[LAMPITO and some go off; the others go up into the Acropolis. Chorus of
OLD MEN enter to attack the captured Acropolis.]
Make room, Draces, move ahead; why your shoulder's chafed, I see,
With lugging uphill these lopped branches of the olive-tree.
How upside-down and wrong-way-round a long life sees things grow.
Ah, Strymodorus, who'd have thought affairs could tangle so?
The women whom at home we fed,
Like witless fools, with fostering bread,
Have impiously come to this—
They've stolen the Acropolis,
With bolts and bars our orders flout
And shut us out.
Come, Philurgus, bustle thither; lay our faggots on the ground,
In neat stacks beleaguering the insurgents all around;

appropriated: apropiado.
bars: cerca, impide.
beleaguering: asediando, cercando,
sitiando.
bolts: pernos.
branches: ramas.
bread: pan, el pan.
bustle: bullicio, polisón.
captured: capturado.
chorus: coro.
citadel: ciudadela.
creak: chirriar, chirrido, crujir,
Spanish
chirriad, chirrio, chirrien, chirrie,
chirrias, chirrian, chirriáis, chirria.
dash: raya, guión, arremetida, corre.
flout: burlen, escarnezcan, escarnezca,
escarneces, escarnecen,
escarnecemos, escarnecéis,
escarneced, burlo, escarnezco, burle.
fostering: criado, fomentar.
hinges: goznes, bisagras.
impiously: impíamente.
lopped: demochado, cercenado,
podado, desmochado, cortado.
lugging: Arrastrar, llevando.
neat: pulcro, ordenado.
olive-tree: olivo.
sees: Ve, serra.
shut: cerrar, cerrado.
stolen: robado.
tangle: enredo, caos.
thither: allá.
torch: antorcha, linterna, soplete.
uphill: cuesta arriba.
upside-down: al revés.
witless: bobo, estúpido, tonto, necio.
26 Lysistrata

And %the vile conspiratresses, plotters of such mischief dire,

Pile and burn them all together in one vast and righteous pyre: Fling with
our own hands Lycon's wife to fry in the thickest fire.
By Demeter, they'll get no brag while I've a vein to beat!
Cleomenes himself was hurtled out in sore defeat.
His stiff-backed Spartan pride was bent.
Out, stripped of all his arms, he went.
A pigmy cloak that would not stretch
To hide his rump (the draggled wretch),
Six sprouting years of beard, the spilth
Of six years' filth.
That was a siege! Our men were ranged in lines of seventeen deep Before the
gates, and never left their posts there, even to sleep. Shall I not smite the rash
presumption then of foes like these, Detested both of all the gods and of
Euripides—
Else, may the Marathon-plain not boast my trophied victories!
Ah, now, there's but a little space
To reach the place!
A deadly climb it is, a tricky road
With all this bumping load.
A pack-ass soon would tire....
How these logs bruise my shoulders! further still
Jog up the hill,
And puff the fire inside,
Or just as we reach the top we'll find it's died.
Ough, phew!
I choke with the smoke.
Lord Heracles, how acrid-hot
Out of the pot
This mad-dog smoke leaps, worrying me
And biting angrily....
'Tis Lemnian fire that smokes,

biting: mordaz, punzante, penetrante.
boast: jactarse.
brag: jactarse, fanfarronear.
bruise: cardenal, magulladura,
contusión, magullar.
bumping: golpear, combustión
pulsante.
choke: sofocar, estrangular, choque,
estrangulación, ahogar.
cloak: abrigo, capa.
dire: horrible.
hurtled: lanzado.
Spanish
logs: bloques, libros de control,
troncos.
mischief: travesura.
phew: uf.
plotters: trazador.
presumption: presunción, derecho,
pretensión.
puff: bollo esponjado, bocanada,
soplo.
pyre: pira.
ranged: recorrido.
righteous: virtuoso, honrado.
rump: anca, rabadilla.
siege: sitio, asedio.
smite: golpear con violencia.
smokes: fuma, humea.
sprouting: brotante, brotar, brote.
stripped: pelado, desarmado,
desencofrado.
tricky: tramposo, trapacero,
engorroso, espinoso, intrincado,
marrullero, difícil, delicado,
complicado, astuto, artero.
vile: vil.
 Aristophanes 27

Or %else it would not sting my eyelids thus....

Haste, all of us;
Athene invokes our aid.
Laches, now or never the assault must be made!
Ough, phew! I choke with the smoke…
Thanked be the gods!
The fire peeps up and crackles as it should.
Now why not first slide off our backs these weary loads of wood
And dip a vine-branch in the brazier till it glows, then straight
Hurl it at the battering-ram against the stubborn gate?
If they refuse to draw the bolts in immediate compliance,
We'll set fire to the wood, and smoke will strangle their defiance.
Phew, what a spluttering drench of smoke!
Come, now from off my back....
Is there no Samos-general
To help me to unpack?
Ah there, that's over!
For the last time now it's galled my shoulder.
Flare up thine embers, brazier, and dutifully smoulder,
To kindle a brand, that I the first may strike the citadel.
Aid me, Lady Victory, that a triumph-trophy may tell
How we did anciently this insane audacity quell!
CHORUS OF WOMEN.
What's that rising yonder?
That ruddy glare, that smoky skurry?
O is it something in a blaze?
Quick, quick, my comrades, hurry!
Nicodice, helter-skelter!
Or poor Calyce's in flames
And Cratylla's stifled in the welter.
O these dreadful old men
And their dark laws of hate!

anciently: antiguamente,
antigüedadmente.
audacity: audacia.
brazier: latonero, brasero.
crackles: cruje.
drench: empapar.
dutifully: respetuosamente.
embers: rescoldo, ascuas, ascua.
helter-skelter: tobogán, desbandada
general, a la desbandada, a
trochemoche, ajetreadamente,
ajetreado, atropelladamente.
Spanish
invokes: invoca, suplica.
kindle: encender, encienda, enciendo,
enciendan, encendéis, encendemos,
encended, enciende, enciendes,
encienden, inflamar.
laches: tardanza, prescripción
negativa.
peeps: píos.
quell: sofocar, sofoca, sofocas,
sofoque, sofoquen, sofoco,
sofocamos, sofocad, sofocáis, sofocan.
ruddy: rojo.
smoulder: arder sin llama.
spluttering: farfullar.
thine: tuyo, tuyos, tuyas, tuya, tus.
unpack: desembalar, desembale,
desempaquetar, desembalen,
desembalas, desembalan,
desembalamos, desembaláis,
desembalad, desembala, desembalo.
welter: tomar un baño, confusión,
bañarse, maremágnum, mezcla
confusa, mezcolanza, revolcarse por,
revoltijo, agitación.
28 Lysistrata

There, %I'm all of a tremble lest I turn out to be too late.

I could scarcely get near to the spring though I rose before dawn,
What with tattling of tongues and rattling of pitchers in one jostling din
With slaves pushing in!…
Still here at last the water's drawn
And with it eagerly I run
To help those of my friends who stand
In danger of being burned alive.
For I am told a dribbling band
Of greybeards hobble to the field,
Great faggots in each palsied hand,
As if a hot bath to prepare,
And threatening that out they'll drive
These wicked women or soon leave them charring into ashes there.
O Goddess, suffer not, I pray, this harsh deed to be done,
But show us Greece and Athens with their warlike acts repealed!
For this alone, in this thy hold,
Thou Goddess with the helm of gold,
We laid hands on thy sanctuary,
Athene…. Then our ally be
And where they cast their fires of slaughter
Direct our water!
STRATYLLIS.
[caught]
Let me go!
WOMEN.
You villainous old men, what's this you do?
No honest man, no pious man, could do such things as you.
MEN.
Ah ha, here's something most original, I have no doubt.
A swarm of women sentinels to man the walls without.

ally: aliado.
ashes: cenizas.
burned: quemó.
charring: trabajo por horas, trabajar
por horas, carbonizar, carbonización.
din: ruido, fragor.
dribbling: gotear, regate.
eagerly: ansiosamente, ávidamente.
fires: incendios.
helm: timón, volante, yelmo.
hobble: cojera, cojear.
jostling: empellar, empellones,
Spanish
empujar, empujones. swarm: enjambre, pulular,
lest: para que no, a no ser que, con el hormiguear.
fin de, no sea que, si es necesario. tattling: divulgar.
palsied: paralítico, paralizado, threatening: amenazando,
temblante, tembloroso. amenazador, conminando,
pious: piadoso, pío, beato. amenazante.
rattling: zumbar, muy, rápido, vaivén, thy: tu.
realmente, estupendo. tongues: lenguas.
repealed: Revocado. tremble: temblar, temblor.
sanctuary: santuario. villainous: villano.
slaughter: matar, matanza, sacrificar, warlike: belicoso.
sacrificio, carnear. wicked: malo, malvado.
 Aristophanes 29

WOMEN.
So then we scare you, do we? Do we seem a fearful host?
You only see the smallest fraction mustered at this post.%
MEN.
Ho, Phaedrias, shall we put a stop to all these chattering tricks?
Suppose that now upon their backs we splintered these our sticks?
WOMEN.
Let us lay down the pitchers, so our bodies will be free,
In case these lumping fellows try to cause some injury.
MEN.
O hit them hard and hit again and hit until they run away,
And perhaps they'll learn, like Bupalus, not to have too much to say.
WOMEN.
Come on, then--do it! I won't budge, but like a dog I'll bite
At every little scrap of meat that dangles in my sight.
MEN.
Be quiet, or I'll bash you out of any years to come.
WOMEN.
Now you just touch Stratyllis with the top-joint of your thumb.
MEN.
What vengeance can you take if with my fists your face I beat?
WOMEN.
I'll rip you with my teeth and strew your entrails at your feet.
MEN.
Now I appreciate Euripides' strange subtlety.
Woman is the most shameless beast of all the beasts that be.
WOMEN.
Rhodippe, come, and let's pick up our water-jars once more.

bash: asestar un golpe.
beast: bestia, animal.
beasts: ganado.
budge: mover, mueve, muevan,
muevo, mueves, mueva, moved,
movemos, movéis, mueven, moverse.
chattering: parlotear, castañetear los
dientes, charlar, parloteo, vibrar,
charla, vibración.
dangles: balancea, pende, se
bambolea, cuelga.
fearful: temeroso, medroso,
Spanish
angustioso.
lumping: Amontonar.
mustered: Congregó.
rip: descoser, descosido, desgarrón,
Protocolo de información de
enrutamiento, raja, rasgón,
rasgadura, rasgar, rasgarse, rasgo,
agua revuelta.
scare: espantar, asustar, susto,
amedrentar.
scrap: chatarra, recorte, desechar,
sobras, desguazar, de desecho.
shameless: desvergonzado.
smallest: menor.
splintered: astilló.
sticks: leño, vara, palillo, adherir,
batuta, palo, pegar, ramitas, punzar,
picar.
strew: esparcir, esparzan, esparza,
esparcís, esparcimos, esparcid,
esparces, esparcen, esparzo, esparce.
thumb: pulgar, el pulgar, dedo pulgar.
tricks: engaños.
vengeance: venganza.
30 Lysistrata

MEN.
Ah cursed drab, what have you brought this water for?
WOMEN.
What is your fire for then, you smelly corpse? Yourself to burn?
MEN.
To build a pyre and make your comrades ready for the urn.%
WOMEN.
And I've the water to put out your fire immediately.
MEN.
What, you put out my fire?
WOMEN.
Yes, sirrah, as you soon will see.
MEN.
I don't know why I hesitate to roast you with this flame.
WOMEN.
If you have any soap you'll go off cleaner than you came.
MEN.
Cleaner, you dirty slut?
WOMEN.
A nuptial-bath in which to lie!
MEN.
Did you hear that insolence?
WOMEN.
I'm a free woman, I.
MEN.
I'll make you hold your tongue.
WOMEN.
Henceforth you'll serve in no more juries.

brought: Traído.
build: construir, edificar, tipo.
burn: arder, quemar, quemadura,
quemarse, encender, la quemadura,
abrasar.
cleaner: limpiador.
corpse: cadáver.
cursed: maldito.
dirty: sucio, ensuciar, verde, manchar.
drab: pardusco.
fire: fuego, incendio, despedir,
disparar, el fuego, tirar, animar,
Spanish
incitar, lumbre, hacer fuego,
encender.
flame: llama, flamear, la flama.
hesitate: vacilar, vacile, vacilan, vacila,
vacilad, vacilamos, vacilo, vacilas,
vacilen, vaciláis, titubear.
hold: tener, sujetar, continuar,
retención, sostener, contener,
mantener, retenido, presa, bodega.
immediately: inmediatamente, ahora
mismo, directamente, en seguida, en
el acto.
insolence: insolencia.
ready: listo, preparado, propenso,
disponible.
roast: asar, asado, tostar, carne asada.
serve: servir, sirva, sirvo, servimos,
servid, servís, sirvan, sirve, sirven,
sirves.
slut: mujerzuela.
smelly: apestoso, maloliente.
soap: jabón, enjabonar.
tongue: lengua, la lengua, lengüeta.
yourself: tú mismo, se.
 Aristophanes 31

MEN.
Burn off her hair for her.%
WOMEN.
Now forward, water, quench their furies!
MEN.
O dear, O dear!
WOMEN.
So ... was it hot?
MEN.
Hot! ... Enough, O hold.
WOMEN.
Watered, perhaps you'll bloom again--why not?
MEN.
Brrr, I'm wrinkled up from shivering with cold.
WOMEN.
Next time you've fire you'll warm yourself and leave us to our lot.
[MAGISTRATE enters with attendant SCYTHIANS.]
MAGISTRATE.
Have the luxurious rites of the women glittered
Their libertine show, their drumming tapped out crowds,
The Sabazian Mysteries summoned their mob,
Adonis been wept to death on the terraces,
As I could hear the last day in the Assembly?
For Demostratus--let bad luck befoul him—
Was roaring, "We must sail for Sicily,"
While a woman, throwing herself about in a dance
Lopsided with drink, was shrilling out "Adonis,
Woe for Adonis." Then Demostratus shouted,
"We must levy hoplites at Zacynthus,"
And there the woman, up to the ears in wine,

attendant: asistente, sirviente,
acompañante.
befoul: ensuciar, manchar.
bloom: flor, florecer, veladura,
floración, florecimiento.
cold: frío, resfriado, catarro,
constipado.
dance: bailar, baile, danza, danzar, el
baile.
drink: beber, bebida, tomar, el
refresco, trago, copa.
drumming: envasado en bidones.
Spanish
ears: orejas, las orejas, oídos. roaring: rugiente, rugido, rugir,
enters: entra, inscribe, monta. clamoroso.
glittered: brillado. sail: vela, navegar, la vela.
levy: exigir. shivering: tiritar.
libertine: libertino. shouted: gritado.
luck: suerte, la suerte. tapped: utilizado.
luxurious: lujoso, suntuoso. terraces: gradas, graderío.
mob: chusma, turba, canalla. throwing: lanzamiento.
quench: extingan, sofocad, sofoca, warm: caliente, caluroso, calentar,
extinguís, extinguimos, extinguid, cálido.
extingues, extinguen, sofocáis, wept: Llorado.
extingo, aplacáis. wrinkled: arrugado.
32 Lysistrata

Was screaming "Weep for Adonis" on the house-top,

The scoundrelly politician, that lunatic ox,
Bellowing bad advice through tipsy shrieks.
Such are the follies wantoning in them.%
MEN.
O if you knew their full effronery!
All of the insults they've done, besides sousing us
With water from their pots to our public disgrace
For we stand here wringing our clothes like grown-up infants.
MAGISTRATE.
By Poseidon, justly done! For in part with us
The blame must lie for dissolute behaviour
And for the pampered appetites they learn.
Thus grows the seedling lust to blossoming.
We go into a shop and say, "Here, goldsmith,
You remember the necklace that you wrought my wife;
Well, the other night in fervour of a dance
Her clasp broke open. Now I'm off for Salamis;
If you've the leisure, would you go tonight
And stick a bolt-pin into her opened clasp."
Another goes to a cobbler; a soldierly fellow,
Always standing up erect, and says to him,
"Cobbler, a sandal-strap of my wife's pinches her,
Hurts her little toe in a place where she's sensitive.
Come at noon and see if you can stretch out wider
This thing that troubles her, loosen its tightness."
And so you view the result. Observe my case—
I, a magistrate, come here to draw
Money to buy oar-blades, and what happens?
The women slam the door full in my face.
But standing still's no use. Bring me a crowbar,

Spanish
blossoming: abrirse, cierne, florecer, grown-up: adulto, mayor, persona scoundrelly: bribónmente.
florecimiento, lozanía, prosperar, mayor, crecido. seedling: planta de semillero,
flor. justly: justamente. plántula, plantón, arbolillo.
clasp: broche. loosen: aflojar, afloje, aflojas, aflojen, slam: golpe.
cobbler: zapatero remendón. aflojan, aflojamos, aflojáis, aflojad, soldierly: soldadesco.
crowbar: palanca. afloja, aflojo, desatar. tipsy: achispado.
disgrace: vergüenza, desgracia, lunatic: lunático. toe: dedo del pie, dedo de pie, el dedo
deshonrar. magistrate: magistrado. del pie.
dissolute: disoluto. necklace: collar, el collar. troubles: nubes.
erect: edificar, erguido, erecto, fundar. noon: mediodía. wantoning: Jugetear.
fervour: celo. ox: buey. wringing: arrancando, retorciendo.
goldsmith: orfebre. pampered: mimado. wrought: forjado.
 Aristophanes 33

And I'll chastise this their impertinence.

What do you gape at, wretch, with dazzled eyes?
Peering for a tavern, I suppose.
Come, force the gates with crowbars, prise them apart!
I'll prise away myself too....
[LYSISTRATA appears.]
LYSISTRATA.
Stop this banging.
I'm coming of my own accord.... Why bars?
It is not bars we need but common sense.%
MAGISTRATE.
Indeed, you slut! Where is the archer now?
Arrest this woman, tie her hands behind.
LYSISTRATA.
If he brushes me with a finger, by Artemis,
The public menial, he'll be sorry for it.
MAGISTRATE.
Are you afraid? Grab her about the middle.
Two of you then, lay hands on her and end it.
CALONICE.
By Pandrosos I if your hand touches her
I'll spread you out and trample on your guts.
MAGISTRATE.
My guts! Where is the other archer gone?
Bind that minx there who talks so prettily.
MYRRHINE.
By Phosphor, if your hand moves out her way
You'd better have a surgeon somewhere handy.

Spanish
apart: aparte, por separado, particular, finger: dedo, el dedo, tocar, manga.
separado. gape: bostezo.
archer: arquero. grab: asir, coger, agarrar, arrebatar.
arrest: detención, detener, arrestar, guts: intestinos.
arresto, prender. handy: hábil, manuable.
bind: liar, ligar, encuadernar, enlazar, impertinence: impertinencia.
obligar, comprometer, lazo. menial: criado.
brushes: escobillas. middle: medio, centro.
chastise: castigar, castigáis, castiguen, minx: bribona.
castigas, castigamos, castigad, moves: mueve.
castiga, castigan, castigo, castigue. peering: mirar.
dazzled: deslumbrado. prettily: bonitamente.
prise: palanca, apalancamiento.
somewhere: en alguna parte.
spread: propagar, extender, difundir,
extensión, untar, diferencial,
extenderse, cobertor.
surgeon: cirujano, el cirujano.
talks: habla, charla.
tavern: taberna.
touches: alcanza, toca, conmueve,
palpa.
trample: pisotear.
wretch: desgraciado.
34 Lysistrata

MAGISTRATE.
You too! Where is that archer? Take that woman.
I'll put a stop to these surprise-parties.%
STRATYLLIS.
By the Tauric Artemis, one inch nearer
My fingers, and it's a bald man that'll be yelling.
MAGISTRATE.
Tut tut, what's here? Deserted by my archers....
But surely women never can defeat us;
Close up your ranks, my Scythians. Forward at them.
LYSISTRATA.
By the Goddesses, you'll find that here await you
Four companies of most pugnacious women
Armed cap-a-pie from the topmost louring curl
To the lowest angry dimple.
MAGISTRATE.
On, Scythians, bind them.
LYSISTRATA.
On, gallant allies of our high design,
Vendors of grain-eggs-pulse-and-vegetables,
Ye garlic-tavern-keepers of bakeries,
Strike, batter, knock, hit, slap, and scratch our foes,
Be finely imprudent, say what you think of them....
Enough! retire and do not rob the dead.
MAGISTRATE.
How basely did my archer-force come off.
LYSISTRATA.
Ah, ha, you thought it was a herd of slaves
You had to tackle, and you didn't guess
The thirst for glory ardent in our blood.

allies: aliados, instituciones que
cooperan con el UNICEF.
ardent: ardiente.
await: esperar, esperen, espere,
esperas, esperan, esperamos,
esperáis, espero, esperad, espera,
aguardar.
bald: calvo, pelado.
basely: vilmente, despreciablemente,
bajamente.
batter: pasta.
curl: rizo, bucle, rizar, rizarse,
Spanish
rotacional, encrespar.
deserted: desierto.
dimple: hoyuelo, el hoyuelo.
finely: finamente, en trozos menudos.
gallant: galante, galán, valeroso.
glory: gloria.
imprudent: imprudente.
inch: pulgada.
knock: llamar, golpear, golpe, topar,
tocar, llamar a la puerta.
louring: oscurecer.
pugnacious: belicoso.
retire: retirarse.
scratch: rascar, arañar, rasguño,
arañazo, rascadura, cancelar, raya,
rasguñar.
slap: palmada, bofetada, abofetear.
thirst: sed, la sed.
topmost: más alto.
tut: eso no, vamos, pche, hacer un
gesto de desaprobación, gesto de
desaprobación, qué horror, Vaya.
yelling: grito, gritos, gritar, gritante,
dar alaridos, aullido, aullar, alarido.
 Aristophanes 35

MAGISTRATE.
By Apollo, I know well the thirst that heats you—
Especially when a wine-skin's close.%
MEN.
You waste your breath, dear magistrate, I fear, in answering back.
What's the good of argument with such a rampageous pack? Remember how
they washed us down (these very clothes I wore)
With water that looked nasty and that smelt so even more.
WOMEN.
What else to do, since you advanced too dangerously nigh.
If you should do the same again, I'll punch you in the eye.
Though I'm a stay-at-home and most a quiet life enjoy,
Polite to all and every (for I'm naturally coy),
Still if you wake a wasps' nest then of wasps you must beware.
MEN.
How may this ferocity be tamed? It grows too great to bear.
Let us question them and find if they'll perchance declare
The reason why they strangely dare
To seize on Cranaos' citadel,
This eyrie inaccessible,
This shrine above the precipice,
The Acropolis.
Probe them and find what they mean with this idle talk; listen, but watch
they don't try to deceive.
You'd be neglecting your duty most certainly if now this mystery
unplumbed you leave.
MAGISTRATE.
Women there! Tell what I ask you, directly....
Come, without rambling, I wish you to state
What's your rebellious intention in barring up thus on our noses our own
temple-gate.

answering: contestar, respuesta.
barring: salvo, cercando, impidiendo,
excepto.
beware: tener cuidado con.
dangerously: peligrosamente.
deceive: engañar, engaño, engañe,
engaña, engañamos, engañen,
engañan, engañáis, engañad,
engañas, embaucar.
declare: declarar, declaras, declaren,
declare, declarad, declaro, declaran,
declaráis, declara, declaramos.
Spanish
eyrie: aguilera, nido de aguilas.
ferocity: ferocidad, la ferocidad.
heats: eliminatorias preliminares,
acalorado.
idle: ocioso, haraganear, perezoso,
inactivo, en reposo.
inaccessible: inaccesible.
neglecting: Descuidar.
nigh: cercano.
perchance: quizás, tal vez.
precipice: precipicio, despeñadero,
abismo, derrumbadero.
probe: sonda, sondear, sensor,
examinar.
rambling: vagaroso.
rampageous: furioso.
rebellious: rebelde.
shrine: santuario.
smelt: eperlano.
stay-at-home: muy casera.
strangely: extrañamente.
tamed: domado.
unplumbed: insondable.
wasps: avispas.
36 Lysistrata

LYSISTRATA.
To take first the treasury out of your management, and so stop the war
through the absence of gold.%
MAGISTRATE.
Is gold then the cause of the war?
LYSISTRATA.
Yes, gold caused it and miseries more, too many to be told.
'Twas for money, and money alone, that Pisander with all of the army of
mob-agitators.
Raised up revolutions. But, as for the future, it won't be worth while to set
up to be traitors.
Not an obol they'll get as their loot, not an obol! while we have the treasure-
chest in our command.
MAGISTRATE.
What then is that you propose?
LYSISTRATA.
Just this--merely to take the exchequer henceforth in hand.
MAGISTRATE.
The exchequer!
LYSISTRATA.
Yes, why not? Of our capabilities you have had various clear evidences.
Firstly remember we have always administered soundly the budget of all
home-expenses.
MAGISTRATE.
But this matter's different.
LYSISTRATA.
How is it different?
MAGISTRATE.
Why, it deals chiefly with war-time supplies.

absence: ausencia, falta.
administered: administrado.
army: ejército.
budget: presupuesto, presupuestar.
capabilities: capacidades.
cause: causa, causar, ocasionar, dar
lugar a, instigar, producir, maquinar,
provocar.
caused: causado.
chiefly: principalmente, sobretodo.
command: mando, orden, mandato,
comando, instrucción, capitanear,
Spanish
acaudillar.
exchequer: fisco.
firstly: primeramente, primero, en
primer lugar, al principio, antes.
future: futuro, porvenir, próximo,
entrante, el futuro.
loot: botín, saquear.
propose: proponer, propon, proponed,
propongo, propongan, propones,
proponen, proponéis, propone,
proponemos, proponga.
raised: alzado, elevado, en relieve,
levantado, peraltada, recrecido.
soundly: sanamente, solventemente,
sólidamente, razonablemente,
profundamente, firmemente,
vigorosamente.
stop: parar, paran, paras, paren,
paráis, parad, paramos, pare, para,
paro, parada.
supplies: suministros.
traitors: traidores.
treasury: tesorería, erario.
worth: valor.
 Aristophanes 37

LYSISTRATA.
But we abolish war straight by our policy.%
MAGISTRATE.
What will you do if emergencies arise?
LYSISTRATA.
Face them our own way.
MAGISTRATE.
What you will?
LYSISTRATA.
Yes we will!
MAGISTRATE.
Then there's no help for it; we're all destroyed.
LYSISTRATA.
No, willy-nilly you must be safeguarded.
MAGISTRATE.
What madness is this?
LYSISTRATA.
Why, it seems you're annoyed. It must be done, that's all.
MAGISTRATE.
Such awful oppression never,
O never in the past yet I bore.
LYSISTRATA.
You must be saved, sirrah--that's all there is to it.
MAGISTRATE.
If we don't want to be saved?
LYSISTRATA.
All the more.

Spanish
abolish: abolir, abolan, abolo, abolís, perforación. willy-nilly: al azar, de buena o de
abolimos, abolid, aboles, abole, destroyed: destruido. mala gana.
abolen, abola, abrogar. don't: no.
annoyed: fastidiado, molestado, emergencies: emergencias.
enojado, enfadado. madness: locura, demencia,
arise: subir, nacer, nacéis, suban, suba, chifladura.
nace, naced, nacemos, nacen, sube, oppression: opresión.
nazca. safeguarded: asegurado,
awful: horrible, abominable, salvaguardado.
horroroso, atroz, tremendo. saved: guardado, salvado, ahorrado.
bore: aburrir, barrena, taladrar, straight: derecho, recto, directamente,
calibre, perforar, barrenar, barreno, recta.
38 Lysistrata

MAGISTRATE.
Why do you women come prying and meddling in matters of state touching
war-time and peace?
LYSISTRATA.
That I will tell you.%
MAGISTRATE.
O tell me or quickly I'll--
LYSISTRATA.
Hearken awhile and from threatening cease.
MAGISTRATE.
I cannot, I cannot; it's growing too insolent.
WOMEN.
Come on; you've far more than we have to dread.
MAGISTRATE.
Stop from your croaking, old carrion-crow there....
Continue
LYSISTRATA.
Be calm then and I'll go ahead.
All the long years when the hopeless war dragged along we, unassuming,
forgotten in quiet,
Endured without question, endured in our loneliness all your incessant
child's antics and riot.
Our lips we kept tied, though aching with silence, though well all the while
in our silence we knew
How wretchedly everything still was progressing by listening dumbly the
day long to you.
For always at home you continued discussing the war and its politics loudly,
and we
Sometimes would ask you, our hearts deep with sorrowing though we spoke
lightly, though happy to see,

aching: dolor, que duele.
awhile: durante un rato, por un rato,
un momento, un rato.
calm: tranquilo, calma, calmar, quieto,
silencio, sosegado, sosegar, aquietar,
sereno.
cease: cesar, parar, cese.
discussing: discutiendo, debatiendo.
dragged: arrastrado, remolcado.
dread: miedo.
dumbly: mudamente, silenciosamente.
endured: durado, soportado.
Spanish
forgotten: olvidado.
hearts: corazones, copas.
hopeless: desesperado.
incessant: incesante.
insolent: insolente, procaz.
lightly: ligeramente.
listening: escuchando.
loneliness: soledad, la soledad.
loudly: en alta voz, ruidosamente.
meddling: entretenimiento.
prying: entrometido.
quiet: quieto, silencio, tranquilo,
calmar, silencioso, sosegar, callado.
riot: disturbio, alboroto, ruido.
silence: silencio, acallar, hacer callar,
el silencio.
tied: atado.
touching: conmovedor.
unassuming: sin pretensiones,
inasumido, modesto, no pretencioso,
sin presunción.
wretchedly: abyectamente,
miserablemente, endemoniadamente,
despreciablemente.
 Aristophanes 39

"What's to be inscribed on the side of the Treaty-stone What, dear, was said
in the Assembly today?"
"Mind your own business," he'd answer me growlingly "hold your tongue,
woman, or else go away."
And so I would hold it.%
WOMEN.
I'd not be silent for any man living on earth, no, not I!
MAGISTRATE.
Not for a staff?
LYSISTRATA.
Well, so I did nothing but sit in the house, feeling dreary, and sigh,
While ever arrived some fresh tale of decisions more foolish by far and
presaging disaster.
Then I would say to him, "O my dear husband, why still do they rush on
destructlon the faster?"
At which he would look at me sideways, exclaiming, "Keep for your web
and your shuttle your care,
Or for some hours hence your cheeks will be sore and hot; leave this alone,
war is Man's sole affair!"
MAGISTRATE.
By Zeus, but a man of fine sense, he.
LYSISTRATA.
How sensible?
You dotard, because he at no time had lent
His intractible ears to absorb from our counsel one temperate word of
advice, kindly meant?
But when at the last in the streets we heard shouted (everywhere ringing the
ominous cry)
"Is there no one to help us, no saviour in Athens?" and, "No, there is no one,"
come back in reply.
At once a convention of all wives through Hellas here for a serious purpose

absorb: absorber, absorben, absorbes,
absorbemos, absorbéis, absorbe,
absorban, absorbed, absorbo,
absorba.
counsel: consejo, aconsejar, abogado,
anunciar.
disaster: desastre, el desastre.
dotard: viejo loco, viejo chocho.
dreary: triste, lúgubre, árido,
horroroso, horrible, afligido.
exclaiming: exclamando.
foolish: zote, tonto, necio, bobo.
Spanish
growlingly: gruñir.
inscribed: inscrito.
kindly: amablemente,
bondadosamente, amable.
lent: prestado, cuaresma.
ominous: ominoso, siniestro.
presaging: presintiendo,
pronosticando, presagioso,
presagiando.
ringing: zumbido, sonando,
sobreoscilación.
rush: apresurarse, junco, prisa.
saviour: salvador, redentor.
sensible: sensato, razonable.
shuttle: lanzadera.
sideways: de lado.
sigh: suspirar, suspiro.
sole: lenguado, suela, único, solo,
planta.
sore: dolorido, úlcera, herida, llaga.
tale: cuento.
temperate: templado, moderado.
web: telaraña, red, tejido tela telaraña
enredo red trama.
40 Lysistrata

was held,
To determine how husbands might yet back to wisdom despite their
reluctance in time be compelled.
Why then delay any longer? It's settled. For the future you'll take up our old
occupation.
Now in turn you're to hold tongue, as we did, and listen while we show the
way to recover the nation.%
MAGISTRATE.
You talk to us! Why, you're mad. I'll not stand it.
LYSISTRATA.
Cease babbling, you fool; till I end, hold your tongue.
MAGISTRATE.
If I should take orders from one who wears veils, may my neck straightaway
be deservedly wrung.
LYSISTRATA.
O if that keeps pestering you,
I've a veil here for your hair,
I'll fit you out in everything
As is only fair.
CALONICE.
Here's a spindle that will do.
MYRRHINE.
I'll add a wool-basket too.
LYSISTRATA.
Girdled now sit humbly at home,
Munching beans, while you card wool and comb.
For war from now on is the Women's affair.
WOMEN.
Come then, down pitchers, all,
And on, courageous of heart,

babbling: balbuceando, balbuceo.
beans: alubias, judías, frijoles.
comb: peine, peinar, el peine.
compelled: obligado, forzado.
courageous: bravo, valeroso, valiente.
delay: retraso, retardo, demora,
retrasar, demorar, retardar.
deservedly: merecidamente.
determine: determinar,
determinamos, determine, determina,
determinan, determino, determináis,
determinad, determinen, determinas,
Spanish
fijar.
fool: engañar, necio, tonto.
humbly: humildemente.
keeps: guarda, vigila, conserva,
preserva.
mad: loco, enojado, chiflado, majara,
majareta, demente, enfadado.
occupation: ocupación, oficio,
profesión, empleo, trabajo.
pestering: importunando.
recover: recuperar, sanar, recupere,
sanad, recuperad, recuperáis,
recuperamos, recuperan, recuperas,
recuperen, recupero.
reluctance: reluctancia, renuencia,
desgana.
settled: despachado.
spindle: huso, eje, husillo.
straightaway: en seguida.
veil: velo.
wears: lleva, usa.
wisdom: sabiduría, sapiencia.
wool: lana, la lana.
wrung: arrancado, Retorcido.
 Aristophanes 41

In our comradely venture

Each taking her due part.
I could dance, dance, dance, and be fresher after,
I could dance away numberless suns,
To no weariness let my knees bend.
Earth I could brave with laughter,
Having such wonderful girls here to friend.
O the daring, the gracious, the beautiful ones!
Their courage unswerving and witty
Will rescue our city.
O sprung from the seed of most valiant-wombed grand- mothers, scions of
savage and dangerous nettles!
Prepare for the battle, all. Gird up your angers. Our way the wind of sweet
victory settles.%
LYSISTRATA.
O tender Eros and Lady of Cyprus, some flush of beauty I pray you devise
To flash on our bosoms and, O Aphrodite, rosily gleam on our valorous
thighs!
Joy will raise up its head through the legions warring and all of the far-
serried ranks of mad-love
Bristle the earth to the pillared horizon, pointing in vain to the heavens
above.
I think that perhaps then they'll give us our title—
Peace-makers.
MAGISTRATE.
What do you mean? Please explain.
LYSISTRATA.
First, we'll not see you now flourishing arms about into the
Marketing-place clang again.
WOMEN.
No, by the Paphian.

Spanish
bosoms: seno. fresher: estudiante de primer año, rosáceamente.
clang: sonar, sonido metálico, sonido fresco, mechón, novato, nuevo, puro, savage: fiero, salvaje.
metálico resonante, resonar, tierno. sprung: pp de spring, de muelles,
estruendo, hacer sonar, hacer gird: sarcasmo, ceñir. brotado, saltado.
estruendo. gleam: destello. thighs: muslos.
comradely: amable, cordial, camarada, gracious: cortés. unswerving: firme.
amistoso. heavens: cielo, cielos. vain: vano, hueco, vanidoso.
daring: atrevido. horizon: horizonte. valorous: valeroso.
devise: idear, disposiciones nettles: molesta, provoca, irrita, warring: belicoso.
testamentarias. Ortigas. weariness: cansancio, aburrimiento,
flourishing: floreciendo, floreciente. numberless: innumerable. fatiga.
flush: rubor, enjuagar. rosily: agradablemente, rosadamente, witty: ingenioso.
42 Lysistrata

LYSISTRATA.
Still I can conjure them as past were the herbs stand or crockery's sold
Like Corybants jingling (poor sots) fully armoured, they noisily round on
their promenade strolled.%
MAGISTRATE.
And rightly; that's discipline, they--
LYSISTRATA.
But what's sillier than to go on an errand of buying a fish
Carrying along an immense. Gorgon-buckler instead the usual platter or
dish?
A phylarch I lately saw, mounted on horse-back, dressed for the part with
long ringlets and all,
Stow in his helmet the omelet bought steaming from an old woman who
kept a food-stall.
Nearby a soldier, a Thracian, was shaking wildly his spear like Tereus in the
play,
To frighten a fig-girl while unseen the ruffian filched from her fruit-trays
the ripest away.
MAGISTRATE.
How, may I ask, will your rule re-establish order and justice in lands so
tormented?
LYSISTRATA.
Nothing is easier.
MAGISTRATE.
Out with it speedily--what is this plan that you boast you've invented?
LYSISTRATA.
If, when yarn we are winding, It chances to tangle, then, as perchance you
may know, through the skein
This way and that still the spool we keep passing till it is finally clear all
again.
So to untangle the War and its errors, ambassadors out on all sides we will
Spanish
armoured: blindado. clamorosamente, alborotadamente. spear: lanza.
conjure: conjurar. omelet: tortilla. spool: bobina, carrete, canilla.
errand: recado, mensaje, mandado, platter: plato. steaming: humeante.
encargo. promenade: paseo. tormented: atormentado.
filched: birlado, hurtado, rapiñado, re-establish: restableza, restablecer, unseen: no visto.
rateado, sisado, sisó. restablezca, restablecen, restablezcan, untangle: desenredar, desenmarañe,
frighten: espantar, espantad, espanta, restableces, restablecéis, restablece, desenredáis, desenredo, desenreden,
espantáis, espantamos, espantan, restableced, restablezco, desenrede, desenredas,
espantas, espanten, asustar, espante, restablecemos. desenredamos, desenredad,
espanto. ruffian: rufián. desenreda, desenredan.
jingling: tintineando, cascabeleo. skein: madeja. winding: devanado, arrollamiento,
noisily: ruidosamente, sots: borrachos. bobinado.
 Aristophanes 43

send
This way and that, here, there and round about--soon you will find that the
War has an end.%
MAGISTRATE.
So with these trivial tricks of the household, domestic analogies of threads,
skeins and spools,
You think that you'll solve such a bitter complexity, unwind such political
problems, you fools!
LYSISTRATA.
Well, first as we wash dirty wool so's to cleanse it, so with a pitiless zeal we
will scrub
Through the whole city for all greasy fellows; burrs too, the parasites, off we
will rub.
That verminous plague of insensate place-seekers soon between thumb and
forefinger we'll crack.
All who inside Athens' walls have their dwelling into one great common
basket we'll pack.
Disenfranchised or citizens, allies or aliens, pell-mell the lot of them in we
will squeeze.
Till they discover humanity's meaning.... As for disjointed and far colonies,
Them you must never from this time imagine as scattered about just like lost
hanks of wool.
Each portion we'll take and wind in to this centre, inward to Athens each
loyalty pull,
Till from the vast heap where all's piled together at last can be woven a
strong Cloak of State.
MAGISTRATE.
How terrible is it to stand here and watch them carding and winding at will
with our fate,
Witless in war as they are.

aliens: extranjeros.
basket: cesto, cesta, la cesta, canasta,
barquilla, canasto.
burrs: rebaba.
carding: cardadura.
crack: grieta, hendedura, crujido,
quebraja, hendidura, crujir, raja.
disjointed: desarticulado.
dwelling: morando, vivienda, morada.
forefinger: dedo índice.
greasy: grasiento, gordo, grueso,
untuoso.
Spanish
heap: montón, grupo, cúmulo,
amontonar, pila.
insensate: sin sensato, inconsciente,
insensible, insensato.
inward: interior, interno.
loyalty: lealtad, fidelidad.
pell-mell: atropelladamente.
piled: amontonado.
pitiless: despiadado.
plague: plaga, peste, atormentar.
portion: porción, parte, ración.
rub: frotar, refregar, friccionar.
scattered: disperso, esparcido.
scrub: matorral, fregado, maleza.
squeeze: apretar, exprimir, apretón,
oprimir, presión, estrujar.
threads: hilos.
trivial: trivial.
unwind: devanar, devanan, devano,
devanen, devanas, devanamos,
devanáis, devanad, devana, devane.
verminous: verminoso.
woven: tejido.
zeal: celo, ahínco.
44 Lysistrata

LYSISTRATA.
What of us then, who ever in vain for our children must weep Borne but to
perish afar and in vain?
MAGISTRATE.
Not that, O let that one memory sleep!
LYSISTRATA.
Then while we should be companioned still merrily, happy as brides may,
the livelong night,
Kissing youth by, we are forced to lie single.... But leave for a moment our
pitiful plight,
It hurts even more to behold the poor maidens helpless wrinkling in staler
virginity.%
MAGISTRATE.
Does not a man age?
LYSISTRATA.
Not in the same way. Not as a woman grows withered, grows he. He, when
returned from the war, though grey-headed, yet if he wishes can choose out a
wife.
But she has no solace save peering for omens, wretched and lonely the rest
of her life.
MAGISTRATE.
But the old man will often select--
LYSISTRATA.
O why not finish and die?
A bier is easy to buy,
A honey-cake I'll knead you with joy,
This garland will see you are decked.
CALONICE.
I've a wreath for you too.

behold: tenga.
bier: féretro, andas.
decked: engalanado.
die: morir, morid, mueran, muere,
morís, mueren, mueres, muero,
morimos, muera, molde.
finish: acabar, acabas, acabo, acabe,
acaban, acabamos, acabáis, acabad,
acaba, acaben, terminar.
garland: guirnalda.
grows: crece, aumenta.
helpless: desvalido, impotente.
Spanish
knead: amasar, amase, amasad,
amaso, amasen, amasas, amasan,
amasáis, amasa, amasamos.
livelong: durante el día, entero, todo,
de todo el día.
lonely: solitario, solo.
maidens: doncellas.
merrily: alegremente.
omens: agüeros.
perish: perecer, perecéis, perezco,
perezcan, pereces, perecemos,
pereced, perece, perecen, perezca.
pitiful: lastimoso, deplorable.
plight: situación.
solace: solaz, consolar, consuelo.
wishes: anhelar, anhelo, ansiar,
desear, deseo, deseos, querer, votos.
withered: marchito, marchitado.
wreath: guirnalda, corona.
wrinkling: formación de pliegues,
fruncir, arrugar, arrugamiento,
arrugación, arruga.
youth: juventud, joven, jóvenes,
adolescencia.
 Aristophanes 45

MYRRHINE.
I also will fillet you.%
LYSISTRATA.
What more is lacking? Step aboard the boat.
See, Charon shouts ahoy.
You're keeping him, he wants to shove afloat.
MAGISTRATE.
Outrageous insults! Thus my place to flout!
Now to my fellow-magistrates I'll go
And what you've perpetrated on me show.
LYSISTRATA.
Why are you blaming us for laying you out?
Assure yourself we'll not forget to make
The third day offering early for your sake.
[MAGISTRATE retires, LYSISTRATA returns within.]
OLD MEN.
All men who call your loins your own, awake at last, arise
And strip to stand in readiness. For as it seems to me
Some more perilous offensive in their heads they now devise.
I'm sure a Tyranny
Like that of Hippias
In this I detect....
They mean to put us under
Themselves I suspect,
And that Laconians assembling
At Cleisthenes' house have played
A trick-of-war and provoked them
Madly to raid
The Treasury, in which term I include
The Pay for my food.
For is it not preposterous

aboard: a bordo, a bordo de.
afloat: a flote, flotante.
ahoy: ah del barco, ah.
assembling: ensamblando,
ensamblaje, congregando.
assure: asegurar, asegura, aseguren,
aseguras, aseguran, aseguramos,
aseguráis, asegurad, aseguro,
asegure, garantizar.
awake: despierto, despertar,
despertarse.
blaming: culpar.
Spanish
fillet: filete, filetear.
lacking: carente, faltar.
laying: colocando, poniendo.
loins: los lomos.
offering: ofrenda, oferta, ofrecer.
perilous: peligroso.
perpetrated: perpetrado.
preposterous: absurdo.
provoked: provocado.
raid: correría, incursión, batida.
readiness: prontitud.
retires: dimite, jubila, recoge, retira,
abandona.
returns: devolver, reembolso,
ganancias, devoluciones, cheques y
letras devueltos, retorno,
rendimiento, remuneración, regreso,
ingresos, volver.
sake: motivo, fin, bien, causa.
shove: empujar, empujón.
strip: tira, raya, faja, desnudarse,
franja, desmontar, banda.
suspect: sospechar, dudar,
sospechoso.
46 Lysistrata

They should talk this way to us

On a subject such as battle!
And, women as they are, about bronze bucklers dare prattle—
Make alliance with the Spartans--people I for one
Like very hungry wolves would always most sincere shun....
Some dirty game is up their sleeve,
I believe.
A Tyranny, no doubt... but they won't catch me, that know. Henceforth on
my guard I'll go,
A sword with myrtle-branches wreathed for ever in my hand,
And under arms in the Public Place I'll take my watchful stand, Shoulder to
shoulder with Aristogeiton.
Now my staff I'll draw
And start at once by knocking that shocking Hag upon the jaw.%
WOMEN.
Your own mother will not know you when you get back to the town.
But first, my friends and allies, let us lay these garments down, And all ye
fellow-citizens, hark to me while I tell
What will aid Athens well. Just as is right, for I
Have been a sharer
In all the lavish splendour
Of the proud city.
I bore the holy vessels
At seven, then
I pounded barley
At the age of ten,
And clad in yellow robes,
Soon after this, I was Little Bear to
Brauronian Artemis;
Then neckletted with figs,
Grown tall and pretty,
I was a Basket-bearer,

alliance: alianza.
barley: cebada.
bronze: bronce, bronceado, broncear.
dare: atreverse, reto, cariño.
figs: higos.
garments: ornamentos.
guard: guardia, guardar, vigilar,
cobrador, guarda, revisor, defender,
proteger, amparar.
hark: escuchar con atención, prestar
oído a, escuche, escuchar, escucha,
oye.
Spanish
holy: santo, sagrado. lisera, banquina, reborde, espaldilla.
hungry: hambriento. sincere: sincero.
knocking: llamar a la puerta, llamada, sleeve: manga, manguito, la manga,
golpeteo, golpes, golpeo, golpear, camisa.
golpe, choque, chocar, aldabonazo, splendour: fausto, pomposidad,
topar. fulgor, esplendor, lujo.
lavish: pródigo. tall: alto.
pounded: golpeado. vessels: embarcaciones.
proud: orgulloso. watchful: vigilante, en vela.
sharer: partícipe. wreathed: ceñido, envuelto,
shocking: chocante. enguirnaldado, trenzado, enroscado.
shoulder: hombro, el hombro, espalda, yellow: amarillo.
 Aristophanes 47

And so it's obvious I should

Give you advice that I think good,

The very best I can. It should not prejudice my voice that I'm not born a man,
If I say something advantageous to the present situation. For I'm taxed too,
and as a toll provide men for the nation
While, miserable greybeards, you,
It is true,
Contribute nothing of any importance whatever to our needs;
But the treasure raised against the Medes
You've squandered, and do nothing in return, save that you make Our lives
and persons hazardous by some imbecile mistakes
What can you answer? Now be careful, don't arouse my spite,
Or with my slipper I'll take you napping, faces slapping
Left and right.%
MEN.
What villainies they contrive!
Come, let vengeance fall,
You that below the waist are still alive,
Off with your tunics at my call—
Naked, all.
For a man must strip to battle like a man.
No quaking, brave steps taking, careless what's ahead, white shoed, in the
nude, onward bold,
All ye who garrisoned Leipsidrion of old....
Let each one wag
As youthfully as he can,
And if he has the cause at heart
Rise at least a span.

We must take a stand and keep to it,

For if we yield the smallest bit

advantageous: ventajoso, favorable,
provechoso.
alive: vivo, viviente.
arouse: despertar, despiertas,
despierten, despiertan, despierta,
despertamos, despertáis, despertad,
despierto, despierte.
bold: grueso, negrita, audaz.
brave: valiente, bravo, animoso.
careless: descuidado, sin cuidado,
negligente.
contrive: idear.
Spanish
hazardous: arriesgado, peligroso.
imbecile: imbécil.
miserable: pobre, deplorable, malo,
triste, indigente, menesteroso,
afligido, necesitado, desgraciado,
miserable.
mistakes: errores.
napping: perchado, dormitar.
nation: nación, pueblo, población.
nude: desnudo.
onward: adelante, hacia adelante.
prejudice: prejuicio.
quaking: temblar, temblante.
slapping: rápido, abofeteamiento,
abofetear, batiente.
spite: rencor.
squandered: malgastado, derrochado.
taxed: Tasado, gravado.
toll: peaje, tañer.
treasure: tesoro, atesorar.
wag: menear, meneo, mover.
waist: cintura, la cintura, talle.
youthfully: frescamente, jovenmente,
juvenilmente.
48 Lysistrata

To their importunity.
Then nowhere from their inroads will be left to us immunity.
But they'll be building ships and soon their navies will attack us,
As Artemisia did, and seek to fight us and to sack us.
And if they mount, the Knights they'll rob
Of a job,
For everyone knows how talented they all are in the saddle, Having long
practised how to straddle;
No matter how they're jogged there up and down, they're never thrown.
Then think of Myron's painting, and each horse-backed Amazon
In combat hand-to-hand with men.... Come, on these women fall, And in
pierced wood-collars let's stick quick
The necks of one and all.%
WOMEN.
Don't cross me or I'll loose
The Beast that's kennelled here....
And soon you will be howling for a truce,
Howling out with fear. But my dear,
Strip also, that women may battle unhindered....
But you, you'll be too sore to eat garlic more, or one black bean,
I really mean, so great's my spleen, to kick you black and blue With these my
dangerous legs.
I'll hatch the lot of you, If my rage you dash on,
The way the relentless Beetle
Hatched the Eagle's eggs.

Scornfully aside I set

Every silly old-man threat
While Lampito's with me.
Or dear Ismenia, the noble Theban girl. Then let decree
Be hotly piled upon decree; in vain will be your labours,
You futile rogue abominated by your suffering neighbour

abominated: detestado, Abominado.
combat: combate, combatir.
decree: decreto, edicto.
garlic: ajo, el ajo.
hand-to-hand: de mano a mano.
hatch: escotilla, incubar.
hotly: calurosamente.
howling: aullido, lamentarse,
clamoroso, aullador, alarido, aullar,
lamento, gritar, rugir, grito, dar
alaridos.
immunity: inmunidad.
Spanish
importunity: importunidad.
jogged: Corrido.
kick: patada, patear, puntapié, cocear,
dar patadas, coz.
loose: suelto, flojo.
mount: montar, acomodar, montaña,
adaptar.
noble: hidalgo, noble.
pierced: agujereado.
practised: experto, hábil.
rage: rabia, furia, furor, ira.
relentless: implacable.
rogue: pícaro.
sack: saco, despedir, bolso.
saddle: montura.
spleen: bazo.
straddle: cabalgue, de forma que la
cinta quede entre sus piernas,
encuadrar, esparrancarse encima de,
no comprometerse, alcance, montar,
montar a horcajadas, montura,
especulación mixta, opción doble.
talented: talentoso, dotado.
truce: tregua.
 Aristophanes 49

To Hecate's feast I yesterday went-

Off I sent
To our neighbours in Bœotia, asking as a gift to me
For them to pack immediately
That darling dainty thing ... a good fat eel I meant of course;

But they refused because some idiotic old decree's in force.

O this strange passion for decrees nothing on earth can check,
Till someone puts a foot out tripping you, and slipping you
Break your neck.%
[LYSISTRATA enters in dismay.]
WOMEN.
Dear Mistress of our martial enterprise,
Why do you come with sorrow in your eyes?
LYSISTRATA.
O 'tis our naughty femininity,
So weak in one spot, that hath saddened me.
WOMEN.
What's this? Please speak.
LYSISTRATA.
Poor women, O so weak!
WOMEN.
What can it be? Surely your friends may know.
LYSISTRATA.
Yea, I must speak it though it hurt me so.
WOMEN.
Speak; can we help? Don't stand there mute in need.
LYSISTRATA.
I'll blurt it out then--our women's army's mutinied.

asking: preguntando, pidiendo,
solicitando.
blurt: decir bruscamente.
check: cheque, comprobar, revisar,
control, controlar, cuenta, talón,
verificación, contener, verificar,
reprimir.
decrees: decreta.
eel: anguila.
enterprise: empresa, negocio.
fat: gordo, grasa, grueso, manteca.
foot: pie, pata, el pie, pujamen.
Spanish
gift: regalo, donación, el regalo, don,
talento.
hurt: doler, herir, dañar, herida,
lastimar.
idiotic: idiota, tonto.
martial: marcial.
meant: pret de mean.
mute: mudo, muda, sordina.
naughty: travieso, malo.
pack: paquete, empacar, embalar,
empaquetar, manada, envolver.
passion: pasión.
puts: pone, mete, coloca.
refused: rehusado.
saddened: entristecido.
sent: enviado, mandado, despachado.
slipping: corrimiento, resbalar.
sorrow: tristeza, pena, dolor.
spot: mancha, punto, sitio, verrugato
croca, manchar, mancilla, lugar.
strange: extraño, raro, ajeno.
surely: seguramente, ciertamente.
tripping: desconexión.
weak: débil, flojo.
50 Lysistrata

WOMEN.
O%Zeus!
LYSISTRATA.
What use is Zeus to our anatomy?
Here is the gaping calamity I meant.
I cannot shut their ravenous appetites
A moment more now. They are all deserting.
The first I caught was sidling through the postern
Close by the Cave of Pan: the next hoisting herself
With rope and pulley down: a third on the point
Of slipping past: while a fourth malcontent, seated
For instant flight to visit Orsilochus
On bird-back, I dragged off by the hair in time....
They are all snatching excuses to sneak home.
Look, there goes one.... Hey, what's the hurry?
1ST WOMAN.
I must get home. I've some Milesian wool
Packed wasting away, and moths are pushing through it.
LYSISTRATA.
Fine moths indeed, I know. Get back within.
1ST WOMAN.
By the Goddesses, I'll return instantly.
I only want to stretch it on my bed.
LYSISTRATA.
You shall stretch nothing and go nowhere either.
1ST WOMAN.
Must I never use my wool then?
LYSISTRATA.
If needs be.

anatomy: anatomía.
calamity: calamidad.
caught: cogido, asido, acertado.
deserting: desertar.
excuses: deshechas.
flight: vuelo, huida, escape.
fourth: cuarto, el cuarto.
gaping: abertura, hueco, abrir la boca,
abrir boquete en, boquete, vacío,
boquiabierto, bostezar, intervalo,
abrir brecha en, bostezo.
hey: eh, hola.
Spanish
hoisting: elevación, Levantar.
hurry: apresurarse, prisa.
instant: momento, instante,
momentito, instantáneo.
instantly: al instante, directamente,
instantáneamente, en seguida.
i've: he, Tengo.
malcontent: descontento, malcontento,
disgustado, desafecto.
nowhere: en ninguna parte.
postern: poterna.
pulley: polea.
pushing: emprendedor, molesto,
empujar, ambicioso, empuje.
ravenous: voraz, hambriento.
rope: cuerda, soga, la cuerda, cabo.
seated: sentado.
snatching: arrebatimiento, arrebatar.
sneak: chivato.
st: santo, SAN, sto, sta, santa, estación,
calle.
stretch: estiramiento, estirar, extender,
tramo.
wasting: acabando, gastando.
 Aristophanes 51

2ND WOMAN.
How unfortunate I am! O my poor flax!
It's left at home unstript.%
LYSISTRATA.
So here's another
That wishes to go home and strip her flax.
Inside again!
2ND WOMAN.
No, by the Goddess of Light,
I'll be back as soon as I have flayed it properly.
LYSISTRATA.
You'll not flay anything. For if you begin
There'll not be one here but has a patch to be flayed.
3RD WOMAN.
O holy Eilithyia, stay this birth
Till I have left the precincts of the place!
LYSISTRATA.
What nonsense is this?
3RD WOMAN.
I'll drop it any minute.
LYSISTRATA.
Yesterday you weren't with child.
3RD WOMAN.
But I am today. O let me find a midwife, Lysistrata.
O quickly!
LYSISTRATA.
Now what story is this you tell?
What is this hard lump here?
3RD WOMAN.
It's a male child.
Spanish
begin: empezar, empiecen, empezad, inside: dentro, dentro de, interior, precincts: alrededores.
empezáis, empiece, empieza, adentro, en, por, interna. properly: correctamente, como es
empiezan, empiezas, empiezo, lump: pedazo, masa, terrón, pieza, debido, debidamente.
empezamos, comenzar. bola, tela, grumo, bulto, chichón, quickly: rápidamente, de prisa, aprisa,
birth: nacimiento, parto, el pella. pronto.
nacimiento. male: masculino, macho, varón. story: historia, piso, cuento, relato, el
flax: lino. midwife: comadrona, partera. cuento.
flay: desollar, desuella, desuellen, minute: minuto, el minuto, minuta, strip: tira, raya, faja, desnudarse,
desuelle, desuellas, desuellan, menudo. franja, desmontar, banda.
desollad, desollamos, desolláis, nd: neutral density. unfortunate: desgraciado,
desuello. nonsense: tontería. infortunado.
flayed: desollado. patch: remendar, parche.
52 Lysistrata

LYSISTRATA.
By Aphrodite, it isn't. Your belly's hollow,
And it has the feel of metal.... Well, I soon can see.
You hussy, it's Athene's sacred helm,
And you said you were with child.%
3RD WOMAN.
And so I am.
LYSISTRATA.
Then why the helm?
3RD WOMAN.
So if the throes should take me
Still in these grounds I could use it like a dove
As a laying-nest in which to drop the child.
LYSISTRATA.
More pretexts! You can't hide your clear intent,
And anyway why not wait till the tenth day
Meditating a brazen name for your brass brat?
WOMAN.
And I can't sleep a wink. My nerve is gone
Since I saw that snake-sentinel of the shrine.
WOMAN.
And all those dreadful owls with their weird hooting!
Though I'm wearied out, I can't close an eye.
LYSISTRATA.
You wicked women, cease from juggling lies.
You want your men. But what of them as well?
They toss as sleepless in the lonely night, I'm sure of it.
Hold out awhile, hold out,
But persevere a teeny-weeny longer.
An oracle has promised Victory If we don't wrangle.
Would you hear the words?
Spanish
brass: latón, metal. hussy: follador, desvergonzada, promised: prometido.
brat: mocoso. pícara, descarado. sacred: sagrado, sacro.
brazen: de latón, descarado. intent: intento, intención, propósito. tenth: décimo.
dove: pichón, paloma, la palomita. juggling: hacer malabares, hacer throes: agonía, ansias, angustia.
dreadful: terrible, espantoso. malabarismos, juglaria, malabar, toss: arrojar, tirada.
grounds: terreno. malabarismo, malabares. wait: esperar, espera, espere, esperad,
hide: ocultar, oculto, oculta, oculte, nerve: nervio. espero, esperen, esperas, esperan,
ocultas, ocultan, ocultamos, ocultáis, oracle: oráculo. esperamos, esperáis, aguardar.
ocultad, oculten, piel. persevere: perseverar, perseveramos, weird: raro, misterioso, extraño.
hollow: hueco, cavidad, hondonada, persevero, perseveren, persevere, wink: guiño, pestañeo, parpadeo,
vacuo. perseveran, perseveráis, perseverad, guiñar.
hooting: Silbar. persevera, perseveras. wrangle: disputa, disputar, reñir.
 Aristophanes 53

WOMEN.
Yes, yes, what is it?
LYSISTRATA.
Silence then, you chatterboxes.
Here—
Whenas the swallows flocking in one place from the hoopoes
Deny themselves love's gambols any more,
All woes shall then have ending and great
Zeus the Thunderer Shall put above what was below before.%
WOMEN.
Will the men then always be kept under us?
LYSISTRATA.
But if the swallows squabble among themselves and fly away
Out of the temple, refusing to agree,
Then The Most Wanton Birds in all the World
They shall be named for ever. That's his decree.
WOMAN.
It's obvious what it means.
LYSISTRATA.
Now by all the gods
We must let no agony deter from duty,
Back to your quarters.
For we are base indeed,
My friends, if we betray the oracle.
[She goes out.]
OLD MEN.
I'd like to remind you of a fable they used to employ,
When I was a little boy.
How once through fear of the marriage-bed a young man, Melanion by name,
to the wilderness ran,
And there on the hills he dwelt.
Spanish
agony: agonía, angustia, miedo. terminación, conclusión. domicilio, puesto de combate,
betray: traicionar, traicionas, traiciono, fable: fábula. trasero.
traicionen, traiciona, traicionan, flocking: flocado, congregar. refusing: Rehusar.
traicionamos, traicionad, traicionáis, fly: volar, voláis, vuelen, vuele, vuelas, remind: recordar, recuerdo, recuerde,
traicione. volamos, vuela, volad, vuelan, vuelo, recuerdas, recuerdan, recuerda,
deter: espantar, espanten, espantad, mosca. recordamos, recordáis, recordad,
espantáis, espantamos, espanto, gambols: brinca. recuerden.
espantan, espante, espanta, espantas, gods: paraíso, gallinero. squabble: disputa.
disuadir. named: denominado. swallows: traga.
dwelt: pret de dwell, pp de dwell. obvious: obvio, evidente. temple: templo, sien, el templo.
employ: emplear, usar, hacer uso de. quarters: cuarta, cuartel, cuarteles, wilderness: desierto.
ending: final, fin, término, cuarto, alojamiento, cuartos traseros, woes: dolencia.
54 Lysistrata

For hares he wove a net

Which with his dog he set—
Most likely he's there yet.
For he never came back home, so great was the fear he felt.
I loathe the sex as much as he,
And therefore I no less shall be
As chaste as was Melanion.%
MAN.
Grann'am, do you much mind men?
WOMAN.
Onions you won't need, to cry.
MAN.
From my foot you shan't escape.
WOMAN.
What thick forests I espy.
MEN.
So much Myronides' fierce beard
And thundering black back were feared,
That the foe fled when they were shown—
Brave he as Phormion.
WOMEN.
Well, I'll relate a rival fable just to show to you
A different point of view.
There was a rough-hewn fellow, Timon, with a face
That glowered as through a thorn-bush in a wild, bleak place.
He too decided on flight,
This very Furies' son,
All the world's ways to shun
And hide from everyone,
Spitting out curses on all knavish men to left and right.
But though he reared this hate for men,
Spanish
beard: barba, la barba, arista. fled: huido. cuento, cuenten, cuentas, cuenta,
bleak: frío, triste, yermo, afligido, foe: enemigo. contamos, contáis, contad, cuente.
lúgubre, horrible. hares: liebres. rival: competidor, competir.
chaste: casto. hate: odiar, odio, aborrecer, detestar. shun: rehuir, rehuyo, rehuid,
cry: llorar, grito, gritar, lamento. knavish: bribón, bellaco. rehuimos, rehuís, rehuyan, rehuye,
escape: escaparse, escapar, huida, loathe: detestar, aborrecer, rehuyen, rehuyes, rehuya.
fuga, escape, evadir, escapada, huir. detestamos, detesto, detesten, thick: grueso, espeso, gordo, denso.
espy: divisar, divise, encontrar. deteste, detestan, detestáis, detestad, thundering: estruendo, trueno, de
feared: temido. detesta, detestas. trueno, tronar, tremendo, imponente,
fellow: compañero, hombre, socio, net: red, neto, la red. enorme.
tipo, becario. reared: criado. wild: fiero, salvaje, silvestre.
fierce: feroz. relate: contar, relacionar, cuentan, wove: Tejió, pret de weave.
 Aristophanes 55

He loved the women even then,

And never thought them enemies.%
WOMAN.
O your jaw I'd like to break.
MAN.
That I fear do you suppose?
WOMAN.
Learn what kicks my legs can make.
MAN.
Raise them up, and you'll expose--
WOMAN.
Nay, you'll see there, I engage,
All is well kept despite my age,
And tended smooth enough to slip
From any adversary's grip.
[LYSISTRATA appears.]
LYSISTRATA.
Hollo there, hasten hither to me Skip fast along.
WOMAN.
What is this? Why the noise?
LYSISTRATA.
A man, a man! I spy a frenzied man!
He carries Love upon him like a staff.
O Lady of Cyprus, and Cythera, and Paphos,
I beseech you, keep our minds and hands to the oath.
WOMAN.
Where is he, whoever he is?
LYSISTRATA.
By the Temple of Chloe.

beseech: supliquen, rogáis, rogamos,
ruega, ruegan, ruegas, ruegue,
rueguen, suplica, suplicamos, rogad.
break: romper, descanso, interrupción,
rotura, quebrar, corte, pausa,
adiestrar, fractura, interrumpir.
carries: Lleva, carga, transporta.
despite: a pesar de.
engage: comprometer, compromete,
comprometed, comprometan,
comprometéis, comprometemos,
comprometen, comprometes,
Spanish
comprometo, comprometa, engranar.
fast: rápido, ayunar, fijo, de prisa,
pronto, veloz, ligero, firme, ayuno.
fear: temer, miedo, temor, angustia,
recelar.
frenzied: frenético.
grip: gripe, asir, agarrar, coger, agarre,
apretar, empuñar.
hasten: acelerar, apresurar.
jaw: mandíbula, mordaza, quijada.
kept: guardado, vigilado, conservado,
preservado.
legs: las piernas.
loved: amado, estimado, querido,
considerado.
noise: ruido, alboroto, el ruido.
slip: deslizamiento, resbalar, desliz,
deslizar, combinación.
spy: espiar, espía, acechar.
suppose: suponer, suponéis, supongo,
supon, suponed, suponemos,
suponen, supones, supongan,
supone, suponga.
whoever: quien.
56 Lysistrata

WOMAN.
Yes, now I see him. but who can he be?
LYSISTRATA.
Look at him. Does anyone recognise his face?
MYRRHINE.
I do. He is my husband, Cinesias.%
LYSISTRATA.
You know how to work. Play with him, lead him on,
Seduce him to the cozening-point--kiss him, kiss him,
Then slip your mouth aside just as he's sure of it,
Ungirdle every caress his mouth feels at
Save that the oath upon the bowl has locked.
MYRRHINE.
You can rely on me.
LYSISTRATA.
I'll stay here to help
In working up his ardor to its height
Of vain magnificence.... The rest to their quarters.
[Enter CINESIAS.]
Who is this that stands within our lines?
CINESIAS.
I.
LYSISTRATA.
A man?
CINESIAS.
Too much a man!
LYSISTRATA.
Then be off at once.
CINESIAS.
Who are you that thus eject me?
Spanish
anyone: alguien, cualquiera. height: altura, altitud, elevación, la oath: juramento.
ardor: ardor, celo, celos, exaltación, altura, estatura, cerro. recognise: reconozca, reconocer.
Entusiasmo, Vehemencia, pasión. kiss: besar, beso, besarse. rely: confiar, confíe, confías, confían,
aside: aparte, al lado. lead: plomo, guiar, guía, conducir, confíen, confiáis, confío, confiad,
bowl: tazón, cuenco, escudilla, fuente, guiáis, guiamos, guían, guías, guíe, confía, confiamos.
pelvis, palangana, copa. guíen, guío. slip: deslizamiento, resbalar, desliz,
caress: acariciar, caricia. lines: partida de matrimonio, destino, deslizar, combinación.
eject: expulsar, expulsad, expulsa, pauta, especificado de líneas, líneas, stands: tenderetes, jaulas.
expulsáis, expulsamos, expulsan, papel. sure: seguro, cierto.
expulsas, expulsen, expulso, expulse, locked: estén aseguradas, cerrado, vain: vano, hueco, vanidoso.
expeler. bloqueado, protegido.
feels: siente, palpa. mouth: boca, desembocadura, la boca.
 Aristophanes 57

LYSISTRATA.
Guard for the day.%
CINESIAS.
By all the gods, then call Myrrhine hither.
LYSISTRATA.
So, call Myrrhine hither!
Who are you?
CINESIAS.
I am her husband Cinesias, son of Anthros.
LYSISTRATA.
Welcome, dear friend!
That glorious name of yours
Is quite familiar in our ranks.
Your wife Continually has it in her mouth.
She cannot touch an apple or an egg
But she must say, "This to Cinesias!"
CINESIAS.
O is that true?
LYSISTRATA.
By Aphrodite, it is.
If the conversation strikes on men, your wife
Cuts in with, "All are boobies by Cinesias."
CINESIAS.
Then call her here.
LYSISTRATA.
And what am I to get?
CINESIAS.
This, if you want it....
See, what I have here. But not to take away.

apple: manzana, la manzana.
boobies: tetitas.
call: llamada, llamar, llaman, llamen,
llamad, llamas, llamo, llamamos,
llamáis, llame, llama.
cannot: presente de no poder.
conversation: conversación.
dear: caro, querido, estimado.
egg: huevo, el huevo.
familiar: conocido.
friend: amigo, amiga, el amigo.
glorious: glorioso, famoso.
Spanish
gods: paraíso, gallinero.
hither: acá.
husband: marido, esposo, el esposo.
mouth: boca, desembocadura, la boca.
son: hijo, el hijo.
strikes: golpea.
touch: tocar, toque, tacto, palpar,
contacto, rozar.
true: verdadero, cierto.
wife: esposa, mujer, la esposa.
yours: vuestro, suyo, el tuyo.
58 Lysistrata

LYSISTRATA.
Then I'll call her
CINESIAS.
Be quick, be quick. All grace is wiped from life
Since she went away. O sad, sad am I
When there I enter on that loneliness,
And wine is unvintaged of the sun's flavour.
And food is tasteless. But I've put on weight.%
MYRRHINE.
[above]
I love him O so much! but he won't have it.
Don't call me down to him.
CINESIAS.
Sweet little Myrrhine!
What do you mean? Come here.
MYRRHINE.
O no I won't.
Why are you calling me? You don't want me
CINESIAS.
Not want you! with this week-old strength of love
MYRRHINE.
Farewell.
CINESIAS.
Don't go, please don't go, Myrrhine.
At least you'll hear our child. Call your mother, lad.
CHILD.
Mummy ... mummy ... mummy!
CINESIAS.
There now, don't you feel pity for the child?
He's not been fed or washed now for six days.

call: llamada, llamar, llaman, llamen,
llamad, llamas, llamo, llamamos,
llamáis, llame, llama.
calling: llamando, llamada.
don't: no.
enter: entrar, entro, entra, entrad,
entráis, entramos, entran, entras,
entren, entre, inscribir.
fed: alimentado, cebado.
flavour: olor, sabor, gusto.
food: comida, alimento, comestibles,
alimentos, plato.
Spanish
grace: gracia, garbo, honrar.
hear: oír, oigan, oyes, oyen, oye, oís,
oigo, oíd, oímos, oiga.
lad: muchacho, chico.
least: menos, mínimo, menor.
loneliness: soledad, la soledad.
mummy: momia.
o: oxígeno.
pity: dolerse por, piedad, compadecer
a, lástima, compasión.
please: por favor, agradar, gustar,
complacer, haz el favor, contentar,
haz favor.
quick: rápido, pronto.
sad: triste, afligido.
strength: fuerza, resistencia, virtud,
potencia, fortaleza.
tasteless: insípido, sin gusto, soso.
washed: lavado, lavo.
wine: vino, el vino.
wiped: limpiado, Enjugado.
 Aristophanes 59

MYRRHINE.
I certainly pity him with so heartless a father.%
CINESIAS.
Come down, my sweetest, come for the child's sake.
MYRRHINE.
A trying life it is to be a mother!
I suppose I'd better go.
[She comes down.]
CINESIAS.
How much younger she looks,
How fresher and how prettier! Myrrhine,
Lift up your lovely face, your disdainful face;
And your ankle ... let your scorn step out its worst;
It only rubs me to more ardor here.
MYRRHINE.
[playing with the child]
You're as innocent as he's iniquitous.
Let me kiss you, honey-petling, mother's darling.
CINESIAS.
How wrong to follow other women's counsel
And let loose all these throbbing voids in yourself
As well as in me. Don't you go throb-throb?
MYRRHINE.
Take away your hands.
CINESIAS.
Everything in the house Is being ruined.
MYRRHINE.
I don't care at all.

ankle: tobillo, el tobillo.
ardor: ardor, celo, celos, exaltación,
Entusiasmo, Vehemencia, pasión.
counsel: consejo, aconsejar, abogado,
anunciar.
darling: querido, amado.
disdainful: desdeñoso.
don't: no.
follow: seguir, seguid, sigues, siguen,
sigue, sigo, sigan, seguís, seguimos,
siga, venir después.
fresher: estudiante de primer año,
Spanish
fresco, mechón, novato, nuevo, puro,
tierno.
heartless: sin corazón.
iniquitous: inicuo.
innocent: inocente, inculpable, el
inocente.
kiss: besar, beso, besarse.
loose: suelto, flojo.
lovely: hermoso, bonito, encantador,
agradable, magnífico, adorable, caro,
lindo.
pity: dolerse por, piedad, compadecer
a, lástima, compasión.
rubs: frota.
ruined: arruinado.
sake: motivo, fin, bien, causa.
scorn: desdén, desdeñar.
step: paso, escalón, peldaño.
throbbing: palpitante.
worst: peor.
wrong: malo, mal, falso, incorrecto,
entuerto, agravio, impropio, erróneo.
younger: menor.
60 Lysistrata

CINESIAS.
The roosters are picking all your web to rags.
Do you mind that?
MYRRHINE.
Not I.%
CINESIAS.
What time we've wasted
We might have drenched with Paphian laughter, flung
On Aphrodite's Mysteries. O come here.
MYRRHINE.
Not till a treaty finishes the war.
CINESIAS.
If you must have it, then we'll get it done.
MYRRHINE.
Do it and I'll come home. Till then I am bound.
CINESIAS.
Well, can't your oath perhaps be got around?
MYRRHINE.
No ... no ... still I'll not say that I don't love you.
CINESIAS.
You love me! Then dear girl, let me also love you.
MYRRHINE.
You must be joking. The boy's looking on.
CINESIAS.
Here, Manes, take the child home!... There, he's gone.
There's nothing in the way now. Come to the point.
MYRRHINE.
Here in the open! In plain sight?

Spanish
bound: encuadernado, saltar, salto, laughter: risa, la risa, carcajada. enredo red trama.
ligado, límite, obligado. o: oxígeno. we'll: Haremos.
can't: no puede. oath: juramento.
dear: caro, querido, estimado. picking: picando.
don't: no. plain: llanura, llano, claro, evidente,
drenched: empapado. liso, plano.
finishes: acaba, termina, concluye. rags: los trapos.
flung: pret y pp de fling. sight: vista, aspecto, mira, avistar.
girl: muchacha, chica, niña, la till: caja, hasta que, hasta, a que.
muchacha. treaty: tratado.
gone: ido, marchado. wasted: gastado, acabado.
joking: bromeando. web: telaraña, red, tejido tela telaraña
 Aristophanes 61

CINESIAS.
In Pan's cave. A splendid place.%
MYRRHINE.
Where shall I dress my hair again
Before returning to the citadel?
CINESIAS.
You can easily primp yourself in the Clepsydra.
MYRRHINE.
But how can I break my oath?
CINESIAS.
Leave that to me, I'll take all risk.
MYRRHINE.
Well, I'll make you comfortable.
CINESIAS.
Don't worry. I'd as soon lie on the grass.
MYRRHINE.
No, by Apollo, in spite of all your faults I won't have you lying on the nasty
earth.
[From here MYRRHINE keeps on going off to fetch things.]
CINESIAS.
Ah, how she loves me.
MYRRHINE.
Rest there on the bench,
While I arrange my clothes. O what a nuisance, I must find some cushions
first.
CINESIAS.
Why some cushions? Please don't get them!

Spanish
arrange: arreglar, arreglen, arreglan, don't: no. loves: amor.
arreglamos, arregláis, arregla, dress: vestido, vestir, vendar, vestirse, lying: mentiroso.
arreglad, arreglas, arreglo, arregle, el vestido, ponerse, revestir. nuisance: molestia.
organizar. easily: fácilmente. oath: juramento.
bench: banco, estrado, banquillo, faults: desperfecto, fallas. primp: emperejilarse, acicalar,
escaño. fetch: traer, traemos, traed, trae, traéis, acicálese.
cave: cueva, la cueva, hueco, bache, traes, traigo, traigan, traen, traiga, returning: volver.
caverna, gruta. coger. risk: riesgo, arriesgar.
citadel: ciudadela. grass: hierba, yerba, césped, la hierba, spite: rencor.
clothes: ropa, viste, la ropa, ropaje. pasto. worry: preocuparse, cuidar,
comfortable: cómodo, agradable. hair: pelo, cabello, el pelo, vello. preocupación, inquietar, inquietud,
cushions: cojines. i'd: Hago. preocupar, molestar.
62 Lysistrata

MYRRHINE.
What? The plain, hard wood?
Never, by Artemis! That would be too vulgar.%
CINESIAS.
Open your arms!
MYRRHINE.
No. Wait a second.
CINESIAS.
O.... Then hurry back again.
MYRRHINE.
Here the cushions are.
Lie down while I--O dear! But what a shame,
You need more pillows.
CINESIAS.
I don't want them, dear.
MYRRHINE.
But I do.
CINESIAS.
Thwarted affection mine,
They treat you just like Heracles at a feast
With cheats of dainties, O disappointing arms!
MYRRHINE.
Raise up your head.
CINESIAS.
There, that's everything at last.
MYRRHINE.
Yes, all.
CINESIAS.
Then run to my arms, you golden girl.

affection: afecto, cariño, afectuosidad,
amor.
arms: brazos, los brazos, armas.
cushions: cojines.
dainties: delicado.
dear: caro, querido, estimado.
disappointing: desilusionando,
desencantando, defraudando,
decepcionando, decepcionante,
desilusionante, desilusionar.
don't: no.
everything: todo.
Spanish
feast: banquete, fiesta. oprobio, avergonzar.
girl: muchacha, chica, niña, la treat: tratar, curar, obsequio.
muchacha. wait: esperar, espera, espere, esperad,
golden: dorado, áureo, de oro. espero, esperen, esperas, esperan,
hard: duro, difícil, tieso. esperamos, esperáis, aguardar.
hurry: apresurarse, prisa. wood: madera, leño, bosque, la
lie: mentir, mentira, yacer, estar madera.
tendido, embuste, echarse.
mine: mina, mío, minar.
plain: llanura, llano, claro, evidente,
liso, plano.
shame: vergüenza, verguenza, pudor,
 Aristophanes 63

MYRRHINE.
I'm loosening my girdle now. But you've not forgotten?
You're not deceiving me about the Treaty?
CINESIAS.
No, by my life, I'm not.%
MYRRHINE.
Why, you've no blanket.
CINESIAS.
It's not the silly blanket's warmth but yours I want.
MYRRHINE.
Never mind. You'll soon have both. I'll come straight back.
CINESIAS.
The woman will choke me with her coverlets.
MYRRHINE.
Get up a moment.
CINESIAS.
I'm up high enough.
MYRRHINE.
Would you like me to perfume you?
CINESIAS.
By Apollo, no!
MYRRHINE.
By Aphrodite, I'll do it anyway.
CINESIAS.
Lord Zeus, may she soon use up all the myrrh.
MYRRHINE.
Stretch out your hand. Take it and rub it in.

Spanish
anyway: sin embargo. rub: frotar, refregar, friccionar.
blanket: manta, la manta, frazada, silly: tonto, necio, absurdo, bobo.
manto, capa fértil. soon: pronto, luego.
choke: sofocar, estrangular, choque, straight: derecho, recto, directamente,
estrangulación, ahogar. recta.
deceiving: engañando. warmth: calor moderado, calor.
forgotten: olvidado. yours: vuestro, suyo, el tuyo.
girdle: cinto, cinturón, pretina, faja.
loosening: aflojando.
myrrh: mirra.
perfume: perfume, el perfume,
perfumar.
64 Lysistrata

CINESIAS.
Hmm, it's not as fragrant as might be; that is, Not before it's smeared. It
doesn't smell of kisses
MYRRHINE.
How silly I am: I've brought you Rhodian scents.%
CINESIAS.
It's good enough, leave it, love.
MYRRHINE.
You must be jesting.
CINESIAS.
Plague rack the man who first compounded scent!
MYRRHINE.
Here, take this flask.
CINESIAS.
I've a far better one.
Don't tease me, come here, and get nothing more.
MYRRHINE.
I'm coming.... I'm just drawing off my shoes....
You're sure you will vote for Peace?
CINESIAS.
I'll think about it.
[She runs off. ]
I'm dead: the woman's worn me all away.
She's gone and left me with an anguished pulse.
MEN.
Baulked in your amorous delight
How melancholy is your plight.
With sympathy your case I view;
For I am sure it's hard on you.
What human being could sustain
Spanish
amorous: amoroso. chistoso, chanzas, bromas, smeared: untó.
anguished: angustiado. bromeando, burlón, guasón. smell: oler, olor, apestar, oler mal,
compounded: acumulado, agravado, leave: salir, sal, sale, salís, salimos, olfatear, olfato.
compuesto. salgo, salgan, salga, sales, salen, sustain: sostener, sosten, sostengan,
dead: muerto. saled. sostiene, sostenemos, sostenéis,
drawing: dibujando, dibujo, melancholy: melancolía, melancólico. sostened, sostienes, sostienen,
encantando, trazando, plano, giro. pulse: pulso, impulso, pulsación. sostengo, sostenga.
flask: frasco, matraz. rack: bastidor, rejilla, perchero, sympathy: simpatía.
fragrant: fragante, oloroso. estante, estantería, cremallera, tease: fastidiar, molestar, embromar,
human: humano. anaquel. importunar.
i'm: soy. runs: corre. vote: votar, voto, balotar, votación.
jesting: chistes, dichos, en broma, scent: olor, perfume, aroma. worn: gastado, usado.
 Aristophanes 65

This unforeseen domestic strain,

And not a single trace
Of willing women in the place!
CINESIAS.
Zeus, what throbbing suffering!
MEN.
She did it all, the harlot, she With her atrocious harlotry.%
WOMEN.
Nay, rather call her darling-sweet.
MEN.
What, sweet? She's a rude, wicked thing.
CINESIAS.
A wicked thing, as I repeat.
O Zeus, O Zeus,
Canst Thou not suddenly let loose
Some twirling hurricane to tear
Her flapping up along the air
And drop her, when she's whirled around,
Here to the ground
Neatly impaled upon the stake
That's ready upright for her sake.
[He goes out.]
[Enter SPARTAN HERALD.]
[The MAGISTRATE comes forward.]
HERALD.
What here gabs the Senate an' the Prytanes?
I've fetcht despatches for them.
MAGISTRATE.
Are you a man
Or a monstrosity?

air: aire, airear, el aire, aéreo, orear.
atrocious: atroz.
despatches: envía.
domestic: indígena, doméstico,
nacional.
flapping: batir, aleteo, aleteador.
goes: va, marcha.
ground: suelo, terreno, tierra, molido,
masa, conexión a tierra, el suelo,
fondo, fundamento.
harlot: ramera, prostituta.
hurricane: huracán.
Spanish
impaled: empalado.
i've: he, Tengo.
monstrosity: monstruosidad.
rude: grosero, rudo, insolente,
descortés.
single: soltero, solo, único, simple,
individual.
stake: poste, estaca, apostar, puesta.
strain: colar, esfuerzo, deformación,
cepa, tensión, torcedura.
suddenly: de repente, de golpe,
repentinamente, de sopetón.
suffering: sufriendo, padeciendo,
sufrimiento.
sweet: dulce, caramelo, postre.
tear: lágrima, desgarrar, rajar, romper,
rasgar, desgarro.
throbbing: palpitante.
trace: rastro, calcar, impresión, trazar,
amojonar, traza, línea, señal, huella,
barrido.
unforeseen: imprevisto.
upright: vertical, montante, derecho.
wicked: malo, malvado.
66 Lysistrata

HERALD.
My scrimp-brained lad,
I'm a herald, as ye see, who hae come frae Sparta
Anent a Peace.%
MAGISTRATE.
Then why do you hide that lance
That sticks out under your arm
HERALD.
I've brought no lance.
MAGISTRATE.
Then why do you turn aside and hold your cloak
So far out from your body? Is your groin swollen
With stress of travelling?
HERALD.
By Castor, I'll swear The man is wud.
MAGISTRATE.
Indeed, your cloak is wide, My rascal fellow.
HERALD.
But I tell ye No! Enow o' fleering!
MAGISTRATE.
Well, what is it then?
HERALD.
It's my despatch cane.
MAGISTRATE.
Of course--a Spartan cane!
But speak right out. I know all this too well.
Are new privations springing up in Sparta?
HERALD.
Och, hard as could be: in lofty lusty columns
Our allies stand united. We maun get Pellene.
Spanish
allies: aliados, instituciones que lofty: alto, encumbrado. la presión.
cooperan con el UNICEF. lusty: lozano. swear: jurar, jura, jurad, juráis,
arm: brazo, armar, el brazo, arma. rascal: bribón. juramos, juran, juras, juren, juro, jure,
cane: palo, bastón, junco, caña. springing: saltar. maldecir.
cloak: abrigo, capa. stand: estar de pie, puesto, levantarse, swollen: hinchado.
columns: columnas. granero, posición, cabina, soporte, travelling: corredizo, de viaje,
despatch: envío, remitir, prontitud, base, estante, caseta, pararse. ambulante, el viajar, itinerante, viajar,
paso, parte, muerte, enviar, envíe, sticks: leño, vara, palillo, adherir, viajes.
ejecución, despacho, despachar. batuta, palo, pegar, ramitas, punzar, united: reunido, unido.
groin: ingle. picar. wide: ancho, amplio, vasto, lejos.
herald: heraldo. stress: tensión, estrés, acento, esfuerzo, ye: usted, vosotros, ustedes, vosotras,
lance: lanza, lanzar. acentuar, presión, recalcar, el estrés, tú, los, lo, las, la, el, vos.
 Aristophanes 67

MAGISTRATE.
Whence has this evil come? Is it from Pan?
HERALD.
No. Lampito first ran asklent, then the ithers
Sprinted after her example, and blocked, the hizzies,
Their wames unskaithed against our every fleech.%
MAGISTRATE.
What did you do?
HERALD.
We are broken, and bent double,
Limp like men carrying lanthorns in great winds
About the city. They winna let us even
Wi' lightest neif skim their primsie pretties
Till we've concluded Peace-terms wi' a' Hellas.
MAGISTRATE.
So the conspiracy is universal;
This proves it. Then return to Sparta. Bid them
Send envoys with full powers to treat of Peace;
And I will urge the Senate here to choose
Plenipotentiary ambassadors,
As argument adducing this connection.
HERALD.
I'm off. Your wisdom nane could contravert.
[They retire.]
MEN.
There is no beast, no rush of fire, like woman so untamed.
She calmly goes her way where even panthers would be shamed.
WOMEN.
And yet you are fool enough, it seems, to dare to war with me, When for your
faithful ally you might win me easily.

adducing: aduciendo.
argument: argumento, discusión, el
argumento.
bent: inclinación, torcido.
blocked: bloqueado.
broken: roto, estropeado,
entrecortado, quebrado.
calmly: calmadamente, serenamente.
carrying: llevando, transportando,
cargando.
choose: escoger, escojan, escoges,
escogen, escogemos, escogéis,
Spanish
escoged, escojo, escoge, escoja, elegir.
concluded: despachado.
connection: conexión, empalme,
comunicación, enlace, lazo, cinta,
acometida, relación.
conspiracy: conspiración.
double: doble, doblar, doblado.
evil: mal, malo, malvado.
faithful: fiel, leal.
panthers: panteras.
powers: potestades.
pretties: bastante.
proves: prueba, verifica.
ran: corrió, participio pasivo del verbo
run, pret de run.
shamed: avergonzado.
skim: desnatar, desnatan, desnaten,
desnato, desnatas, desnatáis,
desnatad, desnata, desnate,
desnatamos, espumar.
universal: universal.
untamed: indomado.
urge: incitar, espolear, impulso,
impulsar, animar, instar.
68 Lysistrata

MEN.
Never could the hate I feel for womankind grow less.%
WOMEN.
Then have your will. But I'll take pity on your nakedness.
For I can see just how ridiculous you look, and so
Will help you with your tunic if close up I now may go.
MEN.
Well, that, by Zeus, is no scoundrel-deed, I frankly will admit.
I only took them off myself in a scoundrel raging-fit.
WOMEN.
Now you look sensible, and that you're men no one could doubt.
If you were but good friends again, I'd take the insect out
That hurts your eye.
MEN.
Is that what's wrong? That nasty bitie thing.
Please squeeze it out, and show me what it is that makes this sting. It's been
paining me a long while now.
WOMEN.
Well I'll agree to that,
Although you're most unmannerly. O what a giant gnat.
Here, look! It comes from marshy Tricorysus, I can tell.
MEN.
O thank you. It was digging out a veritable well.
Now that it's gone, I can't hold back my tears. See how they fall.
WOMEN.
I'll wipe them off, bad as you are, and kiss you after all.
MEN.
I won't be kissed.
WOMEN.
O yes, you will. Your wishes do not matter.

admit: confesar, confesad, confesáis,
confieso, confiesen, confiese,
confiesas, confiesan, confiesa,
confesamos, admitir.
agree: acordar, acordáis, acuerde,
acuerdas, acuerden, acuerdan,
acordad, acuerda, acordamos,
acuerdo, convenir.
bad: malo, mal, podrido.
digging: cavando.
doubt: dudar, duda.
frankly: francamente.
Spanish
giant: gigante. scoundrel: bribón, sinvergüenza,
gnat: mosquito. canalla.
grow: crecer, crecen, crezco, crece, sting: picar, aguijón, picadura, punzar,
creced, crecemos, crezcan, crecéis, pinchar.
creces, crezca, cultivar. tears: desgarra, rasga.
insect: insecto, el insecto. unmannerly: mal educado.
kissed: Besado. veritable: verdadero.
marshy: pantanoso. wipe: limpiar, enjugar, limpien,
myself: yo mismo. limpiad, limpiáis, limpiamos,
nakedness: desnudez. limpian, limpias, limpie, limpio,
paining: Afligir. limpia.
ridiculous: ridículo. womankind: las mujeres.
 Aristophanes 69

MEN.
O botheration take you all! How you cajole and flatter.
A hell it is to live with you; to live without, a hell.
How truly was that said. But come, these enmities let's quell.
You stop from giving orders and I'll stop from doing wrong.
So let's join ranks and seal our bargain with a choric song.%
CHORUS.
Athenians, it's not our intention
To sow political dissension
By giving any scandal mention;
But on the contrary to promote good feeling in the state
By word and deed. We've had enough calamities of late.
So let a man or woman but divulge
They need a trifle, say,
Two minas, three or four, I've purses here that bulge.
There's only one condition made (Indulge my whim in this I pray)-- When
Peace is signed once more,
On no account am I to be repaid.

And I'm making preparation

For a gay select collation
With some youths of reputation.
I've managed to produce some soup and they're slaughtering for me
A sucking-pig: its flesh should taste as tender as could be.
I shall expect you at my house today.
To the baths make an early visit,
And bring your children along;
Don't dawdle on the way.
Ask no one; enter as if the place
Was all your own--yours henceforth is it.
If nothing chances wrong,
The door will then be shut bang in your face.

bang: golpe.
bargain: trato, negociar, ganga,
regatear, convenio.
baths: balneario, casa de baños,
piscina.
botheration: molestia.
cajole: engatusar, engatusamos,
engatuso, engatusen, engatuse,
engatusan, engatusáis, engatusad,
engatusa, engatusas.
calamities: calamidades.
chances: posibilidades.
Spanish
collation: cotejo, colación.
contrary: contrario.
dawdle: perder el tiempo.
dissension: disensión.
divulge: divulgar, divulgáis,
divulguen, divulgo, divulgas,
divulgad, divulga, divulgamos,
divulgan, divulgue.
flatter: adular, adula, adulo, adulen,
adule, adulas, adulan, adulamos,
aduláis, adulad, halagar.
flesh: carne, pulpa.
gay: alegre, homosexual.
reputation: reputación.
scandal: escándalo.
seal: foca, sello, sellar, precinto,
precintar.
slaughtering: matar, matanza.
soup: sopa, la sopa.
sow: cerda, sembrar, cochina,
marrana.
sucking-pig: cochinillo.
trifle: bagatela, friolera, nadería.
whim: capricho, antojo.
70 Lysistrata

[The SPARTAN AMBASSADORS approach.]

CHORUS.
Here come the Spartan envoys with long, worried beards.
Hail, Spartans how do you fare?
Did anything new arise?
SPARTANS.
No need for a clutter o' words. Do ye see our condition?
CHORUS.
The situation swells to greater tension.
Something will explode soon.%
SPARTANS.
It's awfu' truly. But come, let us wi' the best speed we may Scribble a Peace.
CHORUS.
I notice that our men Like wrestlers poised for contest, hold their clothes Out
from their bellies. An athlete's malady! Since exercise alone can bring relief.
ATHENIANS.
Can anyone tell us where Lysistrata is? There is no need to describe our
men's condition, It shows up plainly enough.
CHORUS.
It's the same disease. Do you feel a jerking throbbing in the morning?
ATHENIANS.
By Zeus, yes! In these straits, I'm racked all through. Unless Peace is soon
declared, we shall be driven In the void of women to try Cleisthenes.
CHORUS.
Be wise and cover those things with your tunics. Who knows what kind of
person may perceive you?
ATHENIANS.
By Zeus, you're right.

clutter: desorden.
contest: concurso, certamen, el
concurso, debate, controvertir.
declared: declarado.
describe: describir, describís, describo,
describimos, describid, describen,
describe, describan, describes,
describa.
driven: conducido, manejado.
explode: estallar, estallan, estallo,
estallen, estallas, estalláis, estallad,
estalla, estallamos, estalle, explotar.
Spanish
fare: tarifa, pasaje.
hail: granizo, granizar, alabar,
pedrisco.
malady: enfermedad.
men's: varonil.
perceive: percibir, perciben, percibes,
percibe, perciban, percibid,
percibimos, percibís, percibo, perciba.
plainly: simplemente.
poised: listo, suspendido, serenidad,
equilibrio, en equilibrio, compostura,
balancear, sereno, equilibrar.
racked: atormentado.
relief: alivio, relieve, socorro,
asistencia, relevo.
straits: necesidad, paso, estrecho,
estrecheces.
tension: tensión, voltaje, afán.
truly: verdaderamente, de veras, en
realidad, en efecto, realmente.
void: vacío, nulo, anular, vaciar,
caducado, hueco.
worried: preocupado, angustiado,
inquieto.
 Aristophanes 71

SPARTANS.
By the Twa Goddesses,
Indeed ye are. Let's put our tunics on.%
ATHENIANS.
Hail O my fellow-sufferers, hail Spartans.
SPARTANS.
O hinnie darling, what a waefu' thing!
If they had seen us wi' our lunging waddies!
ATHENIANS.
Tell us then, Spartans, what has brought you here?
SPARTANS.
We come to treat o' Peace.
ATHENIANS.
Well spoken there! And we the same. Let us callout Lysistrata Since she
alone can settle the Peace-terms.
SPARTANS.
Callout Lysistratus too if ye don't mind.
CHORUS.
No indeed. She hears your voices and she comes.
[Enter LYSISTRATA]
Hail, Wonder of all women! Now you must be in turn
Hard, shifting, clear, deceitful, noble, crafty, sweet, and stern.
The foremost men of Hellas, smitten by your fascination,
Have brought their tangled quarrels here for your sole arbitration.
LYSISTRATA.
An easy task if the love's raging home-sickness
Doesn't start trying out how well each other
Will serve instead of us. But I'll know at once
If they do. O where's that girl, Reconciliation?
Bring first before me the Spartan delegates,

arbitration: arbitraje, arbitración.
bring: traer, traigan, trae, traed, traéis,
traemos, traen, traigo, traes, traiga,
llevar.
callout: leyenda.
crafty: astuto.
darling: querido, amado.
deceitful: engañoso, falaz.
don't: no.
easy: fácil.
fascination: fascinación.
foremost: primero, principal.
Spanish
hail: granizo, granizar, alabar,
pedrisco.
hears: oye.
indeed: verdaderamente, en efecto, de
veras, en realidad, efectivamente.
instead: en cambio.
lunging: Lanzar.
noble: hidalgo, noble.
raging: rabioso, furioso.
settle: despachar, despacha, despacho,
despachas, despachan, despachamos,
despacháis, despachad, despachen,
despache, establecer.
shifting: cambiar, desplazamiento,
movedizo.
smitten: herido, pegado, aplastado,
castigado, golpeado, pp de smite.
spoken: hablado.
stern: popa, severo.
tangled: enredado.
task: tarea, quehacer, trabajo.
trying: molesto.
ye: usted, vosotros, ustedes, vosotras,
tú, los, lo, las, la, el, vos.
72 Lysistrata

And%see you lift no rude or violent hands—

None of the churlish ways our husbands used.
But lead them courteously, as women should.
And if they grudge fingers, guide them by other methods,
And introduce them with ready tact. The Athenians
Draw by whatever offers you a grip.
Now, Spartans, stay here facing me. Here you,
Athenians. Both hearken to my words.
I am a woman, but I'm not a fool.
And what of natural intelligence I own
Has been filled out with the remembered precepts
My father and the city-elders taught me.
First I reproach you both sides equally
That when at Pylae and Olympia,
At Pytho and the many other shrines
That I could name, you sprinkle from one cup
The altars common to all Hellenes, yet
You wrack Hellenic cities, bloody Hellas
With deaths of her own sons, while yonder clangs
The gathering menace of barbarians.
ATHENIANS.
We cannot hold it in much longer now.
LYSISTRATA.
Now unto you, O Spartans, do I speak.
Do you forget how your own countryman,
Pericleidas, once came hither suppliant
Before our altars, pale in his purple robes,
Praying for an army when in Messenia
Danger growled, and the Sea-god made earth quayer.
Then with four thousand hoplites Cimon marched

churlish: rústico.
countryman: compatriota.
courteously: cortésmente.
filled: llenar, completar, despachar,
terraplén, relleno, rellenar,
redondear, ocupar, lleno, atestado,
llenó.
gathering: recolección, reunión.
growled: gruñido.
grudge: rencor.
hearken: escuchar.
intelligence: inteligencia.
Spanish
introduce: presentar, presente,
presento, presenta, presentad,
presentáis, presentamos, presentan,
presenten, presentas, introducir.
marched: Marchado.
menace: amenaza, amenazar,
conminación, conminar.
pale: pálido, palidecer, descolorido.
purple: morado, púrpura, purpúreo,
lila.
reproach: reproche, censurar,
reprender, reprobar, desaprobar,
reprochar.
sprinkle: salpicar, espolvorear, rociar.
suppliant: suplicante.
tact: tacto, diplomacia, tino.
taught: enseñado, instruido,
desacostumbrado.
unto: hacia.
violent: violento.
wrack: explorar, sargazo, ruina de,
fluco, estante, despojo, alga de
arribada, fuco, exploráis, exploren,
explore.
 Aristophanes 73

And saved all Sparta. Yet base ingrates now,

You are ravaging the soil of your preservers.%
ATHENIANS.
By Zeus, they do great wrong, Lysistrata.
SPARTANS.
Great wrang, indeed. O! What a luscious wench!
LYSISTRATA.
And now I turn to the Athenians.
Have you forgotten too how once the Spartans
In days when you wore slavish tunics, came
And with their spears broke a Thessalian host
And all the partisans of Hippias?
They alone stood by your shoulder on that day.
They freed you, so that for the slave's short skirt
You should wear the trailing cloak of liberty.
SPARTANS.
I've never seen a nobler woman anywhere.
ATHENIANS.
Nor I one with such prettily jointing hips.
LYSISTRATA.
Now, brethren twined with mutual benefactions,
Can you still war, can you suffer such disgrace?
Why not be friends? What is there to prevent you?
SPARTANS.
We're agreed, gin that we get this tempting Mole.
LYSISTRATA.
Which one?
SPARTANS.
That ane we've wanted to get into, O for sae lang....
Pylos, of course.

anywhere: dondequiera, en cualquier
parte.
benefactions: donaciones.
brethren: hermanos.
freed: liberado.
gin: ginebra, la ginebra.
hips: las caderas.
host: anfitrión, huésped, posadero,
hostia.
jointing: llagueado, conexión.
liberty: libertad, la libertad.
luscious: delicioso.
Spanish
mutual: mutuo, mutua.
partisans: partidarios, fuerzas
guerrilleras.
ravaging: destrozando.
sae: asociación de ingenieros de
automóviles.
skirt: falda, la falda, base de blindaje,
faldón.
slavish: servil.
soil: tierra, ensuciar, suelo, manchar.
stood: pret y pp de stand.
suffer: sufrir, sufres, sufro, sufrís,
sufrid, sufren, sufre, sufran, sufrimos,
sufra, padecer.
tempting: tentando, tentador.
trailing: estela, rastrear, rastreo, rastro,
seguir, seguir la pista de, sendero,
vereda, arrastrar, pista, huella.
twined: trenzó.
wear: llevar, desgaste, usar, tener
puesto, vestir, uso, llevar puesto.
wench: muchacha.
wore: falacia, pret de wear, Llevó.
wrang: retorció.
74 Lysistrata

ATHENIANS.
By Poseidon, Never!
LYSISTRATA.
Give it up.%
ATHENIANS.
Then what will we do? We need that ticklish place united to us-
LYSISTRATA.
Ask for some other lurking-hole in return.
ATHENIANS.
Then, ah, we'll choose this snug thing here, Echinus,
Shall we call the nestling spot? And this backside haven,
These desirable twin promontories, the Maliac,
And then of course these Megarean Legs.
SPARTANS.
Not that, O surely not that, never that.
LYSISTRATA.
Agree! Now what are two legs more or less?
ATHENIANS.
I want to strip at once and plough my land.
SPARTANS.
And mine I want to fertilize at once.
LYSISTRATA.
And so you can, when Peace is once declared.
If you mean it, get your allies' heads together
And come to some decision.
ATHENIANS.
What allies?
There's no distinction in our politics.
We've risen as one man to this conclusion;
Every ally is jumping-mad to drive it home.
Spanish
allies: aliados, instituciones que conduzco, conducís, conducimos, plough: arado, arar.
cooperan con el UNICEF. conduzca, conduces, conduce, politics: política.
ally: aliado. conducid, propulsión. return: volver, devolver, regresar,
backside: espalda, trasero, lomo. fertilize: fertilizar, fertilizo, fertilicen, retorno, devolución, rendimiento,
conclusion: conclusión. fertiliza, fertilizad, fertilizáis, vuelta.
course: curso, plato, cursillo, rumbo, fertilizamos, fertilizan, fertilizas, risen: subido, pp de rise.
transcurso, recorrido. fertilice, abonar. snug: acogedor, cómodo.
decision: decisión, sentencia, haven: asilo. strip: tira, raya, faja, desnudarse,
resolución judicial. land: tierra, aterrizar, país, abordar, franja, desmontar, banda.
desirable: deseable. atracar, la tierra, terreno. ticklish: cosquilloso.
distinction: distinción. nestling: acurrucándose, anidando, twin: gemelo, gemelos.
drive: conducir, conducen, conduzcan, pajarito en el nido, anidar. we'll: Haremos.
 Aristophanes 75

SPARTANS.
And ours the same, for sure.%
ATHENIANS.
The Carystians first! I'll bet on that
LYSISTRATA.
I agree with all of you.
Now off, and cleanse yourselves for the Acropolis,
For we invite you all in to a supper
From our commissariat baskets. There at table
You will pledge good behaviour and uprightness;
Then each man's wife is his to hustle home.
ATHENIANS.
Come, as quickly as possible.
SPARTANS.
As quick as ye like. Lead on.
ATHENIANS.
O Zeus, quick, quick, lead quickly on.
[They hurry off.]
CHORUS.
Broidered stuffs on high I'm heaping,
Fashionable cloaks and sweeping
Trains, not even gold gawds keeping.
Take them all, I pray you, take them all (I do not care)
And deck your children--your daughter, if the Basket she's to bear. Come,
everyone of you, come in and take
Of this rich hoard a share.
Nought's tied so skilfully
But you its seal can break
And plunder all you spy inside.
I've laid out all that I can spare,
And therefore you will see
Spanish
baskets: las cestas. amontonar, amontonamiento, pray: rezar, rezáis, rezas, rezamos,
behaviour: comportamiento, acumulación. rezad, reza, recen, rece, rezan, rezo,
conducta. hoard: acumular, acaparar. rogar.
bet: apostar, apuesta. hustle: empujón, empujar. rich: rico.
cleanse: limpiar, limpian, limpio, invite: invitar, invitas, invita, invite, skilfully: con destreza, diestramente,
limpia, limpias, limpiamos, limpiáis, invitan, invitamos, invitáis, invitad, hábilmente.
limpiad, limpien, limpie. invito, inviten. spare: sobrante, ahorrar, recambio,
commissariat: comisaría. i've: he, Tengo. perdonar.
daughter: hija, la hija, Nina. laid: puesto, colocado, recostado, supper: cena, la cena.
deck: cubierta. acostado. sweeping: barrido.
everyone: todo el mundo, todos. ours: nuestro. uprightness: nobleza, verticalidad.
heaping: apilado, cucharita colmada, plunder: pillaje, botín, saqueo. yourselves: ustedes mismos.
76 Lysistrata

Nothing unless than I you're sharper-eyed.

If lacking corn a man should be
While his slaves clamour hungrily
And his excessive progeny,
Then I've a handfull of grain at home which is always to be had, And to
which in fact a more-than-life-size loaf I'd gladly add.
Then let the poor bring with them bag or sack
And take this store of food.
Manes, my man, I'll tell
To help them all to pack
Their wallets full. But O take care.
I had forgotten; don't intrude, Or terrified you'll yell.
My dog is hungry too, and bites--beware!
[Some LOUNGERS from the Market with torches approach the Banqueting
hall. The PORTER bars their entrance.%
1ST MARKET-LOUNGER.
Open the door.
PORTER.
Here move along.
1ST MARKET-LOUNGER.
What's this?
You're sitting down. Shall I singe you with my torch?
That's vulgar! O I couldn't do it ... yet
If it would gratify the audience,
I'll mortify myself.
2ND MARKET-LOUNGER.
And I will too.
We'll both be crude and vulgar, yes we will.
PORTER.
Be off at once now or you'll be wailing
Dirges for your hair. Get off at once,
Spanish
audience: audiencia, público. satisfaces, satisfagan, satisfago. singe: chamuscar.
bag: bolso, bolsa, saco. hungrily: con hambre. sitting: sesión, sentada.
clamour: clamar. intrude: meterse, molestar, store: tienda, almacenar, almacén, la
corn: maíz, callo, grano. entremeterse, entrometerse, estorbar, tienda, memoria, depósito.
crude: crudo, basto. imponer en, imponga, incursionar, terrified: aterrorizado, aterrado.
dog: perro, el perro, la perra, can. intervenir, meter, encajarse. torches: antorchas.
excessive: excesivo, desmesurado. loaf: pan, barra, holgazanear. vulgar: chabacano, cursi, grosero,
gladly: alegremente. mortify: mortificar, mortifican, cutre, corriente, vulgo, vulgar,
grain: grano, cereal, veta, fibra. mortifiquen, mortificas, ramplón, ordinario, ordinaria,
gratify: satisfacemos, gratifico, mortificamos, mortificáis, mortificad, común.
gratifiquen, satisface, gratifican, mortifica, mortifico, mortifique. wailing: lamentos.
satisfacéis, gratificas, satisfacen, progeny: descendencia, progenie. yell: grito, gritar, aullar, chillar.
 Aristophanes 77

And see you don't disturb the Spartan envoys

Just coming out from the splendid feast they've had.
[The banqueters begin to come out.]
1ST ATHENIAN.
I've never known such a pleasant banquet before,
And what delightful fellows the Spartans are.
When we are warm with wine, how wise we grow.%
2ND ATHENIAN.
That's only fair, since sober we're such fools.
This is the advice I'd give the Athenians—
See our ambassadors are always drunk.
For when we visit Sparta sober, then
We're on the alert for trickery all the while
So that we miss half of the things they say,
And misinterpret things that were never said,
And then report the muddle back to Athens.
But now we're charmed with each other. They might cap
With the Telamon-catch instead of the Cleitagora,
And we'd applaud and praise them just the same;
We're not too scrupulous in weighing words.
PORTER.
Why, here the rascals come again to plague me. Won't you move on, you
sorry loafers there!
MARKET-LOUNGER.
Yes, by Zeus, they're already coming out.
SPARTANS.
Now hinnie dearest, please tak' up your pipe
That I may try a spring an' sing my best
In honour o' the Athenians an' oursels.
ATHENIANS.
Aye, take your pipe.
Spanish
alert: alerta, alarma, alertar. molestas, molesta, molesto, molesten, elogiar.
applaud: aplaudir, aplaudan, aplaudo, incomodar. scrupulous: escrupuloso, meticuloso.
aplaudís, aplaudimos, aplaudid, drunk: borracho, bebido, ebrio. sing: cantar, cantan, cantas, canten,
aplaudes, aplauden, aplaude, honour: honor, homenaje. cantamos, cantáis, canta, cantad,
aplauda. loafers: gandules. canto, cante.
banquet: banquete, banquetear, festín. misinterpret: interpretar mal. sober: sobrio.
cap: gorro, gorra, birrete, el gorro, muddle: enredo. sorry: afligido, arrepentido, pesaroso,
tapa, tapón, zuncho, tapar, casquillo, pipe: pipa, cañería, tubo, tubería, siento, triste.
bonete. conducto, la pipa. trickery: engaño.
charmed: encantado. pleasant: agradable, simpático, we'd: hacemos.
disturb: molestar, moleste, molestad, placentero, grato. weighing: pesando, peso, pesaje,
molestáis, molestamos, molestan, praise: alabar, alabanza, elogio, pesar.
78 Lysistrata

By all the gods, there's nothing

Could glad my heart more than to watch you dance.%
SPARTANS.
Mnemosyne,
Let thy fire storm these younkers,
O tongue wi' stormy ecstasy
My Muse that knows
Our deeds and theirs, how when at sea
Their navies swooped upon
The Medes at Artemision—
Gods for their courage, did they strike
Wrenching a triumph frae their foes;
While at Thermopylae
Leonidas' army stood: wild-boars they were like
Wild-boars that wi' fierce threat
Their terrible tusks whet;
The sweat ran streaming down each twisted face,
Faem blossoming i' strange petals o' death
Panted frae mortal breath,
The sweat drenched a' their bodies i' that place,
For the hurly-burly o' Persians glittered more
Than the sands on the shore.
Come, Hunting Girl, an' hear my prayer—
You whose arrows whizz in woodlands, come an' bless
This Peace we swear. Let us be fenced wi' age long amity,
O let this bond stick ever firm through thee
In friendly happiness.
Henceforth no guilefu' perjury be seen!
O hither, hither O
Thou wildwood queen.

amity: amistad.
bless: bendecir, bendecimos, bendigo,
bendigan, bendices, bendicen,
bendecís, bendecid, bendice, bendiga.
bond: lazo, bono, obligación, fianza,
cinta, adherencia, enlace.
courage: valor, coraje, ánimo, virtud.
deeds: andanzas.
fenced: cercado.
friendly: amistoso, amable, bonito,
gracioso, amigable.
happiness: felicidad, alegría, dicha.
Spanish
hurly-burly: gritería.
mortal: mortal.
perjury: perjurio.
sands: banco de arena, playa.
stick: pegar, palo, bastón.
storm: tormenta, tempestad, la
tormenta, borrasca, tomar por asalto.
stormy: tempestuoso, tormentoso.
streaming: flujo, difusión de video
digital en tiempo real, efecto de
canalización, correr, transferencia de
datos desde el disco duro.
sweat: sudor, sudar, transpirar.
swooped: Abatió.
theirs: suyo, sus.
triumph: triunfo.
twisted: retorcido, torcido.
whet: afilar, afile, afilen, afilas, afilan,
afiláis, afilad, afila, afilo, afilamos.
whizz: silbar, rehilar, silbido, zumbar
a, zumbido, fenómeno.
woodlands: tierras arboladas, suelos
arbolados, regiones forestadas,
boscaje.
 Aristophanes 79

LYSISTRATA.
Earth is delighted now, peace is the voice of earth.
Spartans, sort out your wives: Athenians, yours.
Let each catch hands with his wife and dance his joy,
Dance out his thanks, be grateful in music,
And promise reformation with his heels.%
ATHENIANS.
O Dancers, forward. Lead out the Graces,
Call Artemis out;
Then her brother, the Dancer of Skies,
That gracious Apollo.
Invoke with a shout
Dionysus out of whose eyes
Breaks fire on the maenads that follow;
And Zeus with his flares of quick lightning, and call,
Happy Hera, Queen of all,
And all the Daimons summon hither to be
Witnesses of our revelry
And of the noble Peace we have made,
Aphrodite our aid.

Io Paieon, Io, cry—

For victory, leap!
Attained by me, leap!
Euoi Euoi Euai Euai.
SPARTANS.
Piper, gie us the music for a new sang.

Leaving again lovely lofty Taygetus

Hither O Spartan Muse, hither to greet us,
And wi' our choric voice to raise

aid: ayuda, ayudar, asistente,
ayudante, la curita, auxilio, socorro.
attained: alcanzado.
brother: hermano, el hermano,
cofrade.
catch: coger, cogéis, cojan, coged,
cogemos, cogen, coges, coja, coge,
cojo, asir.
delighted: encantado, gozoso.
forward: adelante, delantero, reenviar,
hacia delante, enviar, remitir, hacia
adelante.
Spanish
grateful: agradecido.
greet: saludar, saludad, saludáis,
saludamos, saludan, saludas, saluda,
saluden, salude, saludo, acoger.
invoke: invocar, invoque, invoca,
invocas, invoco, invocan, invoquen,
invocamos, invocáis, invocad, llamar.
leap: saltar, salto, brincar, el salto.
lightning: relámpago, rayo, el
relámpago.
promise: prometer, prometéis,
prometemos, prometen, prometo,
promete, prometan, prometa,
prometes, prometed, promesa.
raise: levantar, entonar, criar, subir,
alzar, elevar, alza, izar, aumento.
reformation: reformación, reposición,
reforma.
revelry: juerga, diversión tumultuosa,
fiestas, jarana, jolgorio.
shout: gritar, grito.
summon: llamar, notificar, convocar.
thanks: gracias, agradece.
victory: victoria.
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To %Amyclean Apollo praise,

And Tyndareus' gallant sons whose days
Alang Eurotas' banks merrily pass,
An' Athene o' the House o' Brass.

Now the dance begin;

Dance, making swirl your fringe o' woolly skin,
While we join voices
To hymn dear Sparta that rejoices
I' a beautifu' sang,
An' loves to see
Dancers tangled beautifully;
For the girls i' tumbled ranks
Alang Eurotas' banks
Like wanton fillies thrang,
Frolicking there
An' like Bacchantes shaking the wild air
To comb a giddy laughter through the hair,
Bacchantes that clench thyrsi as they sweep
To the ecstatic leap.

An' Helen, Child o' Leda, come

Thou holy, nimble, gracefu' Queen,
Lead thou the dance, gather thy joyous tresses up i' bands
An' play like a fawn. To madden them, clap thy hands,
And sing praise to the warrior goddess templed i' our lands,
Her o' the House o' Brass.

bands: alzacuello.
banks: bancos.
beautifully: bellamente,
hermosamente.
clap: aplaudir, palmada.
clench: presión, apretado, fijar,
empuñar, cerradura, asir, asegurar,
agarrada, apretar, agarro, agarrar.
ecstatic: extático.
fawn: cervato.
fringe: borde, fleco, franja, baranda.
gather: recoger, deducir, reunir,
Spanish
recolectar, cosechar.
giddy: mareado.
goddess: diosa.
hymn: himno.
join: juntar, junta, junto, reunir,
reunirse, junten, juntáis, juntamos,
juntan, juntas, junte.
nimble: ágil.
pass: pasar, adelantar, paso, pase,
desfiladero, entregar, pasada,
aprobar, alargar, paso de montaña,
llegar.
rejoices: alboroza, alegra, deleita,
jubila.
sang: pret de sing, cantó.
shaking: sacudiendo, sacudida.
sweep: barrer, barrido.
swirl: remolino, torbellino,
arremolinarse.
thou: tú, usted, vosotros, ustedes, vos.
tumbled: Derribado.
wanton: petulante, lascivo.
warrior: guerrero.
woolly: lanoso.

aboard: a bordo, a bordo de
abolish: abolir, abolan, abolo, abolís,
abolimos, abolid, aboles, abole,
abolen, abola, abrogar
abominated: detestado, Abominado
absence: ausencia, falta
absorb: absorber, absorben, absorbes,
absorbemos, absorbéis, absorbe,
absorban, absorbed, absorbo,
absorba
absorption: absorción
abstracted: distraído, abstraído,
abstracto
abstraction: abstracción, robo,
sustracción
absurd: absurdo
academic: académico, estudiante
acclamation: aclamación, aplauso
account: cuenta, considerar,
comunicación, creer, contemplar,
lugar, tomar en consideración,
motivo, noticia, explicación,
información
achieve: realizar, realizan, realizad,
realice, realicen, realiza, realizamos,
realizas, realizo, realizáis, conseguir
achievement: logro, realización,
acción, ejecución
aching: dolor, que duele
acropolis: acrópolis
actors: los actores
acts: hechos
add: sumar, sumad, sumáis,
sumamos, suman, sumas, sume,
sumen, suma, sumo, agregar
adducing: aduciendo
administered: administrado
admiration: admiración
admit: confesar, confesad, confesáis,
confieso, confiesen, confiese,
confiesas, confiesan, confiesa,
confesamos, admitir
admits: confiesa, admite
adolescence: adolescencia
adonis: buen mozo
adorning: decorando
advanced: avanzado, adelantado
Aristophanes
GLOSSARY
advantageous: ventajoso, favorable,
provechoso
adventure: aventura
advice: consejo, noticias,
asesoramiento, publicación, noticia,
el consejo
aerial: antena, aéreo
aeschylus: esquilo
aesthetic: estético
afar: lejos
affair: asunto, caso, particular,
aventura
affairs: asuntos
affection: afecto, cariño,
afectuosidad, amor
afloat: a flote, flotante
afraid: miedoso, temeroso, asustado,
medroso, miedo, encogido,
angustioso, tímido, be - tener miedo
ago: hace
agonized: agonizado
agony: agonía, angustia, miedo
agree: acordar, acordáis, acuerde,
acuerdas, acuerden, acuerdan,
acordad, acuerda, acordamos,
acuerdo, convenir
agreed: acordado, convenido, de
acuerdo, vale, entendido, conforme,
asentido, concordado, en orden
ah: ay
ahead: adelante, delante,
anteriormente
ahoy: ah del barco, ah
aid: ayuda, ayudar, asistente,
ayudante, la curita, auxilio, socorro
aim: fin, objeto, objetivo, querer decir,
apuntar, tratar de, esforzarse por,
apuntáis, apunten, apuntas, apunto
air: aire, airear, el aire, aéreo, orear
alert: alerta, alarma, alertar
aliens: extranjeros
alive: vivo, viviente
alliance: alianza
allies: aliados, instituciones que
cooperan con el UNICEF
ally: aliado
alone: solo, único, solamente, sólo
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along: a lo largo de, por
aloof: apartado
amazing: asombrando, asombroso,
maravilloso, maravillando,
pasmando, pasmoso
amazon: amazona, río Amazonas,
Amazonas
amid: en medio de, entre
amity: amistad
amorous: amoroso
amuse: divertir, diviértete, diviértase,
diviértanse, divértidos, me divierto,
nos divertimos, os divertís, se
divierte, se divierten, te diviertes
analogous: análogo
anatomy: anatomía
anciently: antiguamente,
antigüedadmente
anent: concerniente a
angry: enojado, enfadado, furioso
anguished: angustiado
animal: bestia, animal, el animal
ankle: tobillo, el tobillo
annoyed: fastidiado, molestado,
enojado, enfadado
answer: respuesta, responder,
contestar, contestación, responder a,
corresponder al, contestar a, la
respuesta, réplica
answering: contestar, respuesta
antics: estrafalario, travesuras,
bufonadas, grotesco, payasadas
anxious: inquieto, ansioso
anyhow: sin embargo
anyone: alguien, cualquiera
anyway: sin embargo
anywhere: dondequiera, en cualquier
parte
apart: aparte, por separado,
particular, separado
aphrodite: Afrodite, Afrodita
apollo: Apolo
apparently: evidentemente, al
parecer, aparentemente
appeal: apelación, llamada, apelar,
recurso, oración, ruego, atracción,
atractivo, recurrir
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appearance: aspecto, apariencia,
aparición, comparecencia, vista,
apersonamiento
appears: aparece, comparece
applaud: aplaudir, aplaudan,
aplaudo, aplaudís, aplaudimos,
aplaudid, aplaudes, aplauden,
aplaude, aplauda
apple: manzana, la manzana
appreciate: apreciar, aprecia,
apreciad, apreciáis, apreciamos,
aprecian, aprecias, aprecien, aprecio,
aprecie, gustar
approach: aproximación, enfoque,
aproximarse, acercarse, acercar,
acercamiento, método,
planteamiento
appropriated: apropiado
arbitration: arbitraje, arbitración
archer: arquero
ardent: ardiente
ardor: ardor, celo, celos, exaltación,
Entusiasmo, Vehemencia, pasión
argue: discutir, discuto, discutís,
discutan, discute, discuten, discutes,
discutid, discutimos, argüir, discuta
argument: argumento, discusión, el
argumento
arise: subir, nacer, nacéis, suban,
suba, nace, naced, nacemos, nacen,
sube, nazca
arises: sube, nace
aristophanes: aristófanes
arm: brazo, armar, el brazo, arma
armaments: armamento
armed: armado
armoured: blindado
arms: brazos, los brazos, armas
army: ejército
arouse: despertar, despiertas,
despierten, despiertan, despierta,
despertamos, despertáis, despertad,
despierto, despierte
arrange: arreglar, arreglen, arreglan,
arreglamos, arregláis, arregla,
arreglad, arreglas, arreglo, arregle,
organizar
arrest: detención, detener, arrestar,
arresto, prender
arrived: llegado
arrogant: arrogante, altanero
art: arte, el arte
artemisia: artemisa
ashes: cenizas
aside: aparte, al lado
ask: preguntar, preguntáis,
preguntad, pregunto, pregunten,
preguntas, preguntan, preguntamos,
pregunte, pregunta, pedir
asking: preguntando, pidiendo,
solicitando
assault: agresión, asaltar, ataque,
Lysistrata
atacar, asalto, acometer, salteo,
atentado
assembling: ensamblando,
ensamblaje, congregando
assembly: montaje, asamblea,
conjunto, reunión, ensamblaje
assess: evaluar, evalúo, evalúa,
evalúen, evalúe, evalúas, evaluáis,
evaluamos, evaluad, evalúan,
valorar
assure: asegurar, asegura, aseguren,
aseguras, aseguran, aseguramos,
aseguráis, asegurad, aseguro,
asegure, garantizar
athene: Atenas
athenian: ateniense
athens: Atenas
atrocious: atroz
attack: atacar, ataque, acometer,
acometida, agresión, acceso
attacking: agredir, atentado,
acometer, atacante, agresor, atacar,
ataque
attained: alcanzado
attendant: asistente, sirviente,
acompañante
attention: atención, firmes
audacity: audacia
audience: audiencia, público
automatic: automático
avail: aprovechar
await: esperar, esperen, espere,
esperas, esperan, esperamos,
esperáis, espero, esperad, espera,
aguardar
awake: despierto, despertar,
despertarse
aware: consciente
awful: horrible, abominable,
horroroso, atroz, tremendo
awhile: durante un rato, por un rato,
un momento, un rato
awoke: pret y pp de awake
b: si, segundo
babbling: balbuceando, balbuceo
babies: criaturas, bebes
bacchanal: bacanal
back-room: trastienda
backs: espaldas
backside: espalda, trasero, lomo
bad: malo, mal, podrido
bag: bolso, bolsa, saco
balanced: equilibrado
balancing: vacilando, equilibrando,
de equilibrio, balanceando,
balancear, restablecimiento de un
equilibrio, pesar en la balanza,
equilibrio, balance, equilibrarse,
vacilante
bald: calvo, pelado
band: banda, venda, cinta
bands: alzacuello
bang: golpe
banks: bancos
banquet: banquete, banquetear, festín
bargain: trato, negociar, ganga,
regatear, convenio
barley: cebada
barring: salvo, cercando, impidiendo,
excepto
bars: cerca, impide
base: basar, pie, fundar, base,
basamento, casquillo, fundamentar
based: basado, base
basely: vilmente, despreciablemente,
bajamente
baseness: bajeza
bash: asestar un golpe
basic: básico
basis: base
basket: cesto, cesta, la cesta, canasta,
barquilla, canasto
baskets: las cestas
bath: baño, bañera
baths: balneario, casa de baños,
piscina
batter: pasta
battle: batalla, pelea
beans: alubias, judías, frijoles
bear: oso, llevar, el oso, bajista,
producir, dar a luz, parir, portar,
soportar
beard: barba, la barba, arista
bearing: cojinete, abolas, rodamiento
beast: bestia, animal
beasts: ganado
beat: golpear, batido, batir, pegar,
apalear, pulsación, latido,
batimiento
beautiful: bonito, hermoso, bello,
precioso
beautifully: bellamente,
hermosamente
beauty: belleza, la belleza
becomes: acontece
bed: cama, lecho, cauce, la cama,
bancada, cuadro, madre
bedroom: dormitorio, alcoba, el
dormitorio
befoul: ensuciar, manchar
beg: mendigar, mendigas,
mendiguen, mendigan, mendigáis,
mendiga, mendigad, mendigamos,
mendigo, mendigue, pedir limosna
begin: empezar, empiecen, empezad,
empezáis, empiece, empieza,
empiezan, empiezas, empiezo,
empezamos, comenzar
behaviour: comportamiento,
conducta
behold: tenga
beleaguering: asediando, cercando,
sitiando
bellowing: bramar

below: abajo, debajo de, debajo, bajo,
por debajo de, en el fondo
bench: banco, estrado, banquillo,
escaño
bend: curva, doblar, curvar,
curvatura, doblegar, codo, inclinar
beneath: debajo de, debajo, abajo
benefactions: donaciones
bent: inclinación, torcido
bequeathed: Legado
beseech: supliquen, rogáis, rogamos,
ruega, ruegan, ruegas, ruegue,
rueguen, suplica, suplicamos, rogad
besides: además, demás, además de,
amén de
bestial: bestial
bet: apostar, apuesta
betray: traicionar, traicionas,
traiciono, traicionen, traiciona,
traicionan, traicionamos, traicionad,
traicionáis, traicione
betrayed: traicionado
beware: tener cuidado con
bewildering: desconcertando,
desconcierto
beyond: más allá de, a través de,
luego, después, allende, más allá
bid: ofrecer, licitación, postura,
oferta, solicitar, licitar, pedir,
demandar, rogar, puja
bier: féretro, andas
bind: liar, ligar, encuadernar, enlazar,
obligar, comprometer, lazo
birds: aves
birth: nacimiento, parto, el
nacimiento
bit: pedazo, tela, trozo, broca
bite: morder, mordisco, mordedura,
bocado, picar, mordida, picadura,
picada
biting: mordaz, punzante, penetrante
bitter: amargo, agrio
blame: culpa, reprender, valorar en,
reprobar, culpar
blaming: culpar
blanched: blanqueado
blank: blanco, espacio en blanco, en
blanco, formulario, vacío, hoja
blanket: manta, la manta, frazada,
manto, capa fértil
blaze: resplandecer, gritar a los
cuatro vientos, brillo, estrella,
brillar, explosión, arranque, flamear,
fogata, fuego, hoguera
bleak: frío, triste, yermo, afligido,
lúgubre, horrible
bless: bendecir, bendecimos,
bendigo, bendigan, bendices,
bendicen, bendecís, bendecid,
bendice, bendiga
block: bloque, manzana, bloquear,
bloqueo, motón, polea, taco
Aristophanes
blocked: bloqueado
blood: sangre, la sangre
bloody: sangriento, sanguinario,
cruento
bloom: flor, florecer, veladura,
floración, florecimiento
blossoming: abrirse, cierne, florecer,
florecimiento, lozanía, prosperar,
flor
blue: azul, azular
blur: borrón
blurt: decir bruscamente
boast: jactarse
boat: barco, bote, barca, el barco
bold: grueso, negrita, audaz
bolts: pernos
bombast: ampulosidad
bond: lazo, bono, obligación, fianza,
cinta, adherencia, enlace
boobies: tetitas
bore: aburrir, barrena, taladrar,
calibre, perforar, barrenar, barreno,
perforación
born: nacido, nato
borne: Soportado, pp de bear, pagado
bosom: pecho, seno
bosoms: seno
boss: jefe, caudillo, patrón, dueño,
comandante, amo, capitán, el jefe,
protuberancia
botheration: molestia
bought: comprado
bound: encuadernado, saltar, salto,
ligado, límite, obligado
bounteous: abundante
bow: proa, arco, reverencia,
inclinarse, lazo
bowl: tazón, cuenco, escudilla,
fuente, pelvis, palangana, copa
boy: chico, muchacho, niño, el
muchacho, criado, chamaco
brag: jactarse, fanfarronear
branch: rama, sucursal, ramo, la
rama, filial, bifurcar, bifurcación,
brazo, ramificar, ramal
branches: ramas
brand: marca, marcar
brass: latón, metal
brat: mocoso
brave: valiente, bravo, animoso
brazen: de latón, descarado
brazier: latonero, brasero
bread: pan, el pan
breadth: ancho, amplitud, anchura
break: romper, descanso,
interrupción, rotura, quebrar, corte,
pausa, adiestrar, fractura,
interrumpir
breaks: interrupciones, desguace
breasts: pecho, pechos, seno
breath: aliento, respiración, hálito
brethren: hermanos
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bridge: puente, el puente
brightly: brillantemente
brim: borde, ala, baranda
bring: traer, traigan, trae, traed,
traéis, traemos, traen, traigo, traes,
traiga, llevar
bristle: cerda, erizarse
broad: ancho
broke: bollado, rotura, rompió,
romper, pret de break, interrupción,
fracturar, sin blanca, comienzo,
pelado, descanso
broken: roto, estropeado,
entrecortado, quebrado
bronze: bronce, bronceado, broncear
brother: hermano, el hermano,
cofrade
brought: Traído
bruise: cardenal, magulladura,
contusión, magullar
brushes: escobillas
buckler: Defensa, Escudo, Rodela,
tapa de escobén
budge: mover, mueve, muevan,
muevo, mueves, mueva, moved,
movemos, movéis, mueven,
moverse
budget: presupuesto, presupuestar
build: construir, edificar, tipo
building: edificio, construcción, el
edificio
bull: toro, alcista, el toro
bumping: golpear, combustión
pulsante
burden: carga, cargar, peso,
gravamen, agobio, gravar
burn: arder, quemar, quemadura,
quemarse, encender, la quemadura,
abrasar
burned: quemó
burning: quemadura, ardiente
burrs: rebaba
bustle: bullicio, polisón
buy: comprar, compra, procurarse,
adquisición
buying: comprar
cajole: engatusar, engatusamos,
engatuso, engatusen, engatuse,
engatusan, engatusáis, engatusad,
engatusa, engatusas
calamities: calamidades
calamity: calamidad
call: llamada, llamar, llaman, llamen,
llamad, llamas, llamo, llamamos,
llamáis, llame, llama
calling: llamando, llamada
callout: leyenda
calm: tranquilo, calma, calmar,
quieto, silencio, sosegado, sosegar,
aquietar, sereno
calmly: calmadamente, serenamente
cane: palo, bastón, junco, caña
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cannot: presente de no poder
can't: no puede
cap: gorro, gorra, birrete, el gorro,
tapa, tapón, zuncho, tapar, casquillo,
bonete
capabilities: capacidades
captured: capturado
card: tarjeta, carta, ficha
carding: cardadura
careful: cuidadoso, prudente,
circunspecto, precavido
careless: descuidado, sin cuidado,
negligente
caress: acariciar, caricia
carries: Lleva, carga, transporta
carrying: llevando, transportando,
cargando
cast: lanzar, lanzamiento, arrojar,
echar, colar, elenco, molde
castor: Vinagrera, Azucarero,
castóreo, Espolvoreador, ricino,
Salero, rueda, palmacristi, Paseo De
Convoy, Convoy
catch: coger, cogéis, cojan, coged,
cogemos, cogen, coges, coja, coge,
cojo, asir
caterwauling: maullidos, aullidos,
maullido, maullar, chillidos
caught: cogido, asido, acertado
cause: causa, causar, ocasionar, dar
lugar a, instigar, producir,
maquinar, provocar
caused: causado
cave: cueva, la cueva, hueco, bache,
caverna, gruta
cease: cesar, parar, cese
ceased: ceso, Cesado
ceases: cesa
ceiling: techo, el techo, tope, cielo
raso
celibate: célibe
central: central
certainly: ciertamente, desde luego
chances: posibilidades
changed: cambio, cambió, cambiado
changing: cambiando
character: carácter, seña, naturaleza,
índole, personaje
characteristics: características
charm: encanto, hechizar, encantar,
gracia, embelesar, amuleto
charmed: encantado
charms: amuletos
charring: trabajo por horas, trabajar
por horas, carbonizar, carbonización
chaste: casto
chastise: castigar, castigáis, castiguen,
castigas, castigamos, castigad,
castiga, castigan, castigo, castigue
chatter: charlar, charla, castañetear,
parlotear
chattering: parlotear, castañetear los
Lysistrata
dientes, charlar, parloteo, vibrar,
charla, vibración
check: cheque, comprobar, revisar,
control, controlar, cuenta, talón,
verificación, contener, verificar,
reprimir
cheeks: mejillas
chief: jefe, principal, caudillo, dueño,
capitán, comandante, arzo, patrón,
archi, amo, caporal
chiefly: principalmente, sobretodo
choke: sofocar, estrangular, choque,
estrangulación, ahogar
choose: escoger, escojan, escoges,
escogen, escogemos, escogéis,
escoged, escojo, escoge, escoja, elegir
chorus: coro
christianity: cristianismo
chronicle: crónica
chucks: bota
churlish: rústico
citadel: ciudadela
clad: vestido, pret y pp de clothe
claim: reclamación, derecho,
pretensión, demanda,
reivindicación, crédito, pretender,
afirmación
claimed: Reclamado
clamber: trepar
clamour: clamar
clang: sonar, sonido metálico, sonido
metálico resonante, resonar,
estruendo, hacer sonar, hacer
estruendo
clap: aplaudir, palmada
clasp: broche
cleaner: limpiador
cleanse: limpiar, limpian, limpio,
limpia, limpias, limpiamos, limpiáis,
limpiad, limpien, limpie
clench: presión, apretado, fijar,
empuñar, cerradura, asir, asegurar,
agarrada, apretar, agarro, agarrar
clepsydra: reloj de agua, clepsidra
climb: trepar, subir, escalar, subida,
ascender, subir a, escalada
clink: tintín
cloak: abrigo, capa
close: cerrar, cierras, cierra, cierren,
cerráis, cerrad, cerramos, cierro,
cierre, cierran, cerca
clothes: ropa, viste, la ropa, ropaje
cluster: racimo, grupo,
conglomerado, agruparse
clutter: desorden
coarseness: grosería
cobbler: zapatero remendón
cold: frío, resfriado, catarro,
constipado
collation: cotejo, colación
colour: color, colorear, coloración
columns: columnas
comb: peine, peinar, el peine
combat: combate, combatir
comes: Viene
comfortable: cómodo, agradable
coming: viniendo, proveniente,
próximo, originario, natural
command: mando, orden, mandato,
comando, instrucción, capitanear,
acaudillar
commissariat: comisaría
common: común
comparatively: comparativamente,
relativamente
compel: obligar, obligas, obliga,
obligad, obligáis, obligan, obligo,
obliguen, obligamos, obligue, forzar
compelled: obligado, forzado
complete: completo, lleno, completar,
llenar, cabal, concluir, cumplido
completed: terminado, acabado
completely: completamente
complex: complejo, complicado
complexity: complejidad
compliance: conformidad,
cumplimiento, complacencia,
acatamiento
compounded: acumulado, agravado,
compuesto
comrade: amigo, camarada
comradely: amable, cordial,
camarada, amistoso
conception: concepción, concepto
concerns: concierne
concluded: despachado
conclusion: conclusión
condition: condición, acondicionar,
estado
conditions: condiciones
conjure: conjurar
connected: conectado, conexo
connection: conexión, empalme,
comunicación, enlace, lazo, cinta,
acometida, relación
consciously: conscientemente
consciousness: conciencia,
consciencia, conocimiento
consequently: por consiguiente
considered: considerado
consolation: consuelo
conspicuous: eminente
conspiracy: conspiración
constitute: constituir, constituya,
constituyen, constituyes, constituye,
constituís, constituid, constituimos,
constituyo, constituyan
constructive: constructivo
construe: interpretar
consulted: consultado
contact: contacto, contactar, ponerse
en contacto
contemporary: contemporáneo
contest: concurso, certamen, el

concurso, debate, controvertir
continually: continuamente, siempre
continue: continuar, continúe,
continuad, continuáis, continuamos,
continúan, continúas, continúen,
continúo, continúa, durar
continued: continuado, durado
contrary: contrario
contrast: contraste, contrastar
contribute: contribuir, contribuya,
contribuyo, contribuid,
contribuimos, contribuís,
contribuyan, contribuye,
contribuyes, contribuyen
contrive: idear
convention: congreso, convención,
convenio
conversation: conversación
core: núcleo, corazón, centro
corinthian: corintio, de corintio
corn: maíz, callo, grano
corpse: cadáver
cosmetics: cosméticos
couch: canapé, dyschatell, cama, sofá,
sofá cama
couldn't: no fue posible
counsel: consejo, aconsejar, abogado,
anunciar
countryman: compatriota
courage: valor, coraje, ánimo, virtud
courageous: bravo, valeroso, valiente
courageously: valientemente
course: curso, plato, cursillo, rumbo,
transcurso, recorrido
courteously: cortésmente
cover: cubrir, tapa, cobertura,
recorrer, tapar, forrar, cubierta,
neumático, portada, forro,
encuadernación
crack: grieta, hendedura, crujido,
quebraja, hendidura, crujir, raja
crackles: cruje
crafty: astuto
creak: chirriar, chirrido, crujir,
chirriad, chirrio, chirrien, chirrie,
chirrias, chirrian, chirriáis, chirria
creation: creación
creative: creativo
crocus: azafrán
cross: cruz, atravesar, cruzar,
transversal, aspa, cruce
crowbar: palanca
crude: crudo, basto
cruelly: desalmadamente,
cruelmente, con crueldad
cry: llorar, grito, gritar, lamento
cup: taza, la taza, copa
cups: taza
curious: curioso
curl: rizo, bucle, rizar, rizarse,
rotacional, encrespar
curse: maldecir, maldición, jurar
Aristophanes
cursed: maldito
cushions: cojines
custom: costumbre, usanza
customs: aduana, costumbres
cuts: reducciones, recortes, corta,
cortes
cycle: ciclo, bicicleta, ir en bicicleta
cyprus: Chipre
dainties: delicado
dainty: fino, amable, delicado,
poquita
dance: bailar, baile, danza, danzar, el
baile
dancer: bailarín, bailador
dancers: bailadores, bailarines
danger: peligro, el peligro
dangerous: peligroso
dangerously: peligrosamente
dangles: balancea, pende, se
bambolea, cuelga
dare: atreverse, reto, cariño
daring: atrevido
dark: oscuro, tenebroso
darling: querido, amado
dash: raya, guión, arremetida, corre
daughter: hija, la hija, Nina
dawdle: perder el tiempo
dawdling: holgazaneando,
malgastando
dawn: amanecer, alba, madrugada,
aurora
dazzled: deslumbrado
dead: muerto
deadly: mortal
dear: caro, querido, estimado
dears: estimado
deceitful: engañoso, falaz
deceive: engañar, engaño, engañe,
engaña, engañamos, engañen,
engañan, engañáis, engañad,
engañas, embaucar
deceiving: engañando
decent: decente, conveniente
decide: decidir, decida, decides,
decidís, decido, decidid, decide,
decidan, decidimos, deciden,
decidirse
decided: decidido
decision: decisión, sentencia,
resolución judicial
deck: cubierta
decked: engalanado
declare: declarar, declaras, declaren,
declare, declarad, declaro, declaran,
declaráis, declara, declaramos
declared: declarado
decree: decreto, edicto
decrees: decreta
deed: escritura, acto, hecho, hazaña
deeds: andanzas
deep: profundo, hondo
defeat: derrota, derrotar, vencer,
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definite: definido
definition: definición
defy: desafiar, desafiáis, desafío,
desafíen, desafías, desafiamos,
desafiad, desafía, desafían, desafíe
delay: retraso, retardo, demora,
retrasar, demorar, retardar
deliberation: reflexión, deliberación,
consideración, contemplación
delicately: delicadamente
delight: deleitar, delicia, encantar
delighted: encantado, gozoso
delightful: bonito, lindo, delicioso,
encantador, deleitoso
delirium: delirio
demagogue: demagogo
denial: negación, denegación
deny: negar, negad, niego, niegas,
niegan, negáis, negamos, nieguen,
niega, niegue, desmentir
depth: profundidad, hondura,
puntal, fondo
deride: burlar
derogatory: derogatorio, despectivo
descend: descender, descendéis,
desciendo, desciendes, descienden,
desciende, desciendan,
descendemos, descended,
descienda, bajar
describe: describir, describís,
describo, describimos, describid,
describen, describe, describan,
describes, describa
deserted: desierto
deserting: desertar
deservedly: merecidamente
deserves: merece
design: diseño, dibujar, propósito,
plan, proyecto, plano, planear,
diseñar, dibujo
desirable: deseable
desire: desear, deseo, tener, querer,
gana, codiciar
desired: deseado
desirously: ganoso, deseosamente,
anhelosamente
despatch: envío, remitir, prontitud,
paso, parte, muerte, enviar, envíe,
ejecución, despacho, despachar
despatches: envía
desperate: desesperado
despite: a pesar de
destroy: destruir, destruid,
destruimos, destruís, destruyan,
destruye, destruyen, destruyes,
destruyo, destruya
destroyed: destruido
detail: detalle, pormenor
detects: detecta
deter: espantar, espanten, espantad,
espantáis, espantamos, espanto,
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espantan, espante, espanta,
espantas, disuadir
determine: determinar,
determinamos, determine,
determina, determinan, determino,
determináis, determinad,
determinen, determinas, fijar
detested: detestado
devise: idear, disposiciones
testamentarias
dictated: dictado
die: morir, morid, mueran, muere,
morís, mueren, mueres, muero,
morimos, muera, molde
died: muerto
digging: cavando
dignified: dignificado, digno
dimple: hoyuelo, el hoyuelo
din: ruido, fragor
dint: esfuerzo grande, abolladura,
abollar, abollarse, chichón, golpe,
mellar, mella, fuerza, fuerza de
dip: buzamiento, zambullida,
pendiente
dire: horrible
direct: directo, mandar, guiar,
derecho, dirigir
directing: dirigente, dirigir
directness: franqueza
dirty: sucio, ensuciar, verde, manchar
disappointing: desilusionando,
desencantando, defraudando,
decepcionando, decepcionante,
desilusionante, desilusionar
disaster: desastre, el desastre
discipline: disciplina
discover: descubrir, descubrimos,
descubrís, descubrid, descubres,
descubren, descubre, descubran,
descubro, descubra
discuss: discutir, discutan,
discutimos, discutid, discutes,
discuten, discute, discuto, discutís,
discuta, debatir
discussing: discutiendo, debatiendo
disdainful: desdeñoso
disease: enfermedad
disembowel: desentrañen, destripen,
destripe, destripas, destripan,
destripamos, destripáis, destripo,
destripad, desentrañas, desentrañan
disembowelled: desentrañó
disgrace: vergüenza, desgracia,
deshonrar
disgraceful: vergonzoso, deshonroso
dish: plato, el plato, guiso
disjointed: desarticulado
dismay: espantar, consternar
displaced: desplazado
disputed: cuestionado, discutible,
disputado, protestado de, litigado
disregard: desatender, descuido
Lysistrata
dissension: disensión
dissolute: disoluto
distinct: claro, distinto, evidente
distinction: distinción
disturb: molestar, moleste, molestad,
molestáis, molestamos, molestan,
molestas, molesta, molesto,
molesten, incomodar
divine: divino
divulge: divulgar, divulgáis,
divulguen, divulgo, divulgas,
divulgad, divulga, divulgamos,
divulgan, divulgue
dog: perro, el perro, la perra, can
domestic: indígena, doméstico,
nacional
don't: no
dotard: viejo loco, viejo chocho
double: doble, doblar, doblado
doubt: dudar, duda
doubts: duda
dove: pichón, paloma, la palomita
downward: descendente, hacia abajo,
de arriba hacia abajo
drab: pardusco
drag: arrastrar, arrastro, arrastrad,
arrastráis, arrastramos, arrastran,
arrastras, arrastren, arrastra,
arrastre, remolcar
dragged: arrastrado, remolcado
draw: dibujar, dibujáis, dibujad,
dibujen, dibuje, dibujas, dibujamos,
dibuja, dibujan, dibujo, tirar
drawing: dibujando, dibujo,
encantando, trazando, plano, giro
drawn: dibujado, encantado, trazado
dread: miedo
dreadful: terrible, espantoso
dream: soñar, sueño, ensueño
dreams: sueños
dreary: triste, lúgubre, árido,
horroroso, horrible, afligido
drench: empapar
drenched: empapado
dress: vestido, vestir, vendar,
vestirse, el vestido, ponerse, revestir
dressed: vestido, con guarnición de
dribbling: gotear, regate
drink: beber, bebida, tomar, el
refresco, trago, copa
drinks: bebidas
drive: conducir, conducen,
conduzcan, conduzco, conducís,
conducimos, conduzca, conduces,
conduce, conducid, propulsión
driven: conducido, manejado
drop: gota, caer, disminuir, amainar,
decrecer, menguar, caída, descenso,
dejar caer
drumming: envasado en bidones
drunk: borracho, bebido, ebrio
duality: dualidad, dos existencias
due: debido
dumbly: mudamente,
silenciosamente
dusting: desempolvamiento, quitar o
sacudir el polvo, polvo,
desempolvar, espolvereo
dutifully: respetuosamente
duty: deber, servicio, obligación,
impuesto
dwell: morar, morad, moren, moras,
moráis, moran, moramos, mora,
more, moro, habitar
dwelling: morando, vivienda,
morada
dwelt: pret de dwell, pp de dwell
dyed: colorado, teñido
eagerly: ansiosamente, ávidamente
earnestness: seriedad
ears: orejas, las orejas, oídos
easier: mas fácil
easily: fácilmente
easy: fácil
eat: comer, comemos, comes, coméis,
comed, coman, como, comen, coma,
Come
echinus: erizo de mar
ecstasy: éxtasis
ecstatic: extático
edge: borde, orilla, filo, canto, arista,
baranda, ribetear, margen
eel: anguila
effort: esfuerzo, afán
efforts: afán
egg: huevo, el huevo
eject: expulsar, expulsad, expulsa,
expulsáis, expulsamos, expulsan,
expulsas, expulsen, expulso,
expulse, expeler
element: elemento, ingrediente
elements: elementos, abecé, alfabeto
eliminate: eliminar, eliminen,
elimino, eliminas, eliminan,
elimináis, eliminad, elimina,
eliminamos, elimine
embers: rescoldo, ascuas, ascua
embrace: abrazar, abarcar
emergencies: emergencias
emotion: emoción
emotional: emocional
emphasis: énfasis, realce
employ: emplear, usar, hacer uso de
ending: final, fin, término,
terminación, conclusión
endlessly: interminablemente,
inacabablemente, sin fin,
eternamente
endured: durado, soportado
enduring: durando, soportando,
duradero
engage: comprometer, compromete,
comprometed, comprometan,
comprometéis, comprometemos,

comprometen, comprometes,
comprometo, comprometa, engranar
enhanced: mejorado, realzado
enjoy: disfrutar, disfrutas, disfrutan,
disfrutamos, disfrutáis, disfrutad,
disfruta, disfruto, disfruten, disfrute,
gozar
enlarge: ampliar, amplíe, amplía,
amplíen, amplías, amplían,
ampliamos, ampliáis, ampliad,
amplío, agrandar
enter: entrar, entro, entra, entrad,
entráis, entramos, entran, entras,
entren, entre, inscribir
enterprise: empresa, negocio
enters: entra, inscribe, monta
entrails: entrañas
entrance: entrada, la entrada
equally: ídem, igualmente
equipoise: sobrepeso, contrapesar,
contrapeso, equilibrio, sobrepesar
erect: edificar, erguido, erecto, fundar
errand: recado, mensaje, mandado,
encargo
escape: escaparse, escapar, huida,
fuga, escape, evadir, escapada, huir
escaped: escapado
especially: sobre todo,
principalmente, especialmente,
sobretodo
espy: divisar, divise, encontrar
essential: esencial, necesario
eternal: eterno
eternity: eternidad
ethical: ético
event: acontecimiento, evento,
suceso, acaecimiento, ocurrencia
everyone: todo el mundo, todos
everything: todo
everywhere: en todas partes, por
todas partes
evil: mal, malo, malvado
exact: exacto, preciso
exaltation: exaltación
example: ejemplo, el ejemplo
except: excepto, menos, exceptuar,
además de, amén de
excessive: excesivo, desmesurado
exchequer: fisco
exclaiming: exclamando
excuses: deshechas
exercise: ejercicio, ejercer, hacer
ejercicio
exist: existir, existimos, existid, existo,
existen, existe, existan, existes,
existís, exista
existed: existido
exists: existe
expect: esperar, esperad, espero,
esperen, esperáis, esperamos,
esperas, esperan, espera, espere
explain: explicar, explica, explico,
Aristophanes
explicas, explican, explicamos,
explicáis, explicad, expliquen,
explique, aclarar
explode: estallar, estallan, estallo,
estallen, estallas, estalláis, estallad,
estalla, estallamos, estalle, explotar
expose: exponer, exponen, expongo,
expongan, expones, exponemos,
exponéis, exponed, expon, expone,
exponga
express: expresar, expresa, expresas,
expresen, expresan, expresamos,
expresáis, expresad, expreso,
exprese
expression: expresión
extent: alcance, magnitud, extensión
externally: externamente
extreme: extremo
eye: ojo, el ojo, ojear, mirar
eyebrows: las cejas
eyrie: aguilera, nido de aguilas
fable: fábula
faces: Caras
facing: paramento, frente a,
revestimiento
failed: fracasado, no satisfactorio,
fallado
failing: fracaso, falta
fair: justo, rubio, mercado, feria,
verbena, bazar, equitativo, hermoso
faith: fe, la fe
faithful: fiel, leal
fall: caer, os caéis, cáedos, se caen, se
cae, te caes, caígase, cáete, caíganse,
me caigo, nos caemos
fallacy: falacia
familiar: conocido
fancy: figurarse, de fantasía,
imaginación
fantastic: fantástico, hueco
fantasy: fantasía
fare: tarifa, pasaje
farthest: más lejanamente, a
distancia, a lo lejos, a lo más, lejano,
lejos, a la mayor distancia, más, más
lejano, más lejos, remotamente
fascinating: fascinante, fascinando
fascination: fascinación
fashionable: de moda
fast: rápido, ayunar, fijo, de prisa,
pronto, veloz, ligero, firme, ayuno
fat: gordo, grasa, grueso, manteca
fate: destino, suerte, sino, hado
faults: desperfecto, fallas
favourite: favorito
fawn: cervato
fear: temer, miedo, temor, angustia,
recelar
feared: temido
fearful: temeroso, medroso,
angustioso
feast: banquete, fiesta
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fed: alimentado, cebado
feeling: sentimiento, sintiendo,
palpando, sensación
feels: siente, palpa
feet: los pies, pies
felicitous: oportuno, feliz
fellow: compañero, hombre, socio,
tipo, becario
femininity: feminidad
fenced: cercado
ferocity: ferocidad, la ferocidad
fertilize: fertilizar, fertilizo, fertilicen,
fertiliza, fertilizad, fertilizáis,
fertilizamos, fertilizan, fertilizas,
fertilice, abonar
fervour: celo
fetch: traer, traemos, traed, trae,
traéis, traes, traigo, traigan, traen,
traiga, coger
field: campo, el campo, zona, cancha
fierce: feroz
fiery: ardiente
fight: luchar, pelear, lucha, combate,
pelea, batallar, riña, combatir
figs: higos
filched: birlado, hurtado, rapiñado,
rateado, sisado, sisó
fill: llenar, relleno, rellenar, ocupar,
llenado
filled: llenar, completar, despachar,
terraplén, relleno, rellenar,
redondear, ocupar, lleno, atestado,
llenó
fillet: filete, filetear
finally: finalmente, al fin, por fin
finds: funda, funde
fine: multa, fino, multar, excelente,
bonito, delgado, bien, estupendo,
bueno
finely: finamente, en trozos menudos
finest: mejor
finger: dedo, el dedo, tocar, manga
fingers: los dedos
finish: acabar, acabas, acabo, acabe,
acaban, acabamos, acabáis, acabad,
acaba, acaben, terminar
finishes: acaba, termina, concluye
fire: fuego, incendio, despedir,
disparar, el fuego, tirar, animar,
incitar, lumbre, hacer fuego,
encender
fires: incendios
firm: firma, firme, fijo, empresa,
sólido, fuerte, compañía
firstly: primeramente, primero, en
primer lugar, al principio, antes
fish: pez, pescado, pescar, el pescado,
pescados, peces, el pez
fit: adaptar, acomodar, ajustar,
apoplejía, ajuste, caber, ataque, en
forma, encajar
fitly: convenientemente,
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adecuadamente olvidarse gathering: recolección, reunión
flame: llama, flamear, la flama forgotten: olvidado gay: alegre, homosexual
flapping: batir, aleteo, aleteador former: anterior, pasada, pasado generally: generalmente
flare: bengala fornication: fornicación generating: generando
flash: destello, llamarada, centella, forward: adelante, delantero, generation: generación
rebaba, fogonazo, relampaguear, reenviar, hacia delante, enviar, geometry: geometría
destellar remitir, hacia adelante giant: gigante
flask: frasco, matraz fostering: criado, fomentar giddy: mareado
flatter: adular, adula, adulo, adulen, fours: cuatros gift: regalo, donación, el regalo, don,
adule, adulas, adulan, adulamos, fourth: cuarto, el cuarto talento
aduláis, adulad, halagar fraction: fracción gin: ginebra, la ginebra
flavour: olor, sabor, gusto fragrance: fragancia gird: sarcasmo, ceñir
flaw: grieta, falla, quebraja, fragrant: fragante, oloroso girdle: cinto, cinturón, pretina, faja
hendidura, desperfecto, frankly: francamente girl: muchacha, chica, niña, la
imperfección freed: liberado muchacha
flax: lino freedom: libertad girls: las muchachas
flay: desollar, desuella, desuellen, frenzied: frenético gives: da
desuelle, desuellas, desuellan, fresh: fresco giving: dando
desollad, desollamos, desolláis, fresher: estudiante de primer año, glad: alegre, contento
desuello fresco, mechón, novato, nuevo, gladly: alegremente
flayed: desollado puro, tierno glare: deslumbramiento, deslumbrar
fled: huido freshly: no hace mucho tiempo, gleam: destello
flesh: carne, pulpa recién, frescamente glitter: lustre
flight: vuelo, huida, escape friend: amigo, amiga, el amigo glittered: brillado
fling: arrojado, tiro, tirar, lanzar, friendly: amistoso, amable, bonito, glorious: glorioso, famoso
lanzamiento, lanza, lance, echar al gracioso, amigable glory: gloria
suelo, echar, echada, aventura friends: amigos, los amigos glumly: displicentemente,
amorosa friendship: amistad sombríamente
flocking: flocado, congregar frighten: espantar, espantad, espanta, gnat: mosquito
floor: piso, suelo, el suelo, pavimento espantáis, espantamos, espantan, god: Dios
flourishing: floreciendo, floreciente espantas, espanten, asustar, espante, goddess: diosa
flout: burlen, escarnezcan, espanto goddesses: diosas
escarnezca, escarneces, escarnecen, frightened: espantado, asustado godlike: divino
escarnecemos, escarnecéis, fringe: borde, fleco, franja, baranda gods: paraíso, gallinero
escarneced, burlo, escarnezco, burle frivolous: frívolo, hueco goes: va, marcha
flown: volado frogs: ranas gold: oro, el oro, de oro
flung: pret y pp de fling frolicking: juguteo, retozar, jugueteo golden: dorado, áureo, de oro
flush: rubor, enjuagar fry: freír goldsmith: orfebre
fluttering: revolotear fully: completamente gone: ido, marchado
fly: volar, voláis, vuelen, vuele, function: función, funcionar, cargo, gown: vestido, toga
vuelas, volamos, vuela, volad, oficio grab: asir, coger, agarrar, arrebatar
vuelan, vuelo, mosca furiously: sañudo, reñidamente, grace: gracia, garbo, honrar
foe: enemigo rabiosamente, furiosamente graces: Gracias
follow: seguir, seguid, sigues, siguen, futile: fútil gracious: cortés
sigue, sigo, sigan, seguís, seguimos, future: futuro, porvenir, próximo, grain: grano, cereal, veta, fibra
siga, venir después entrante, el futuro grand: magnífico, grande, grandioso
food: comida, alimento, comestibles, gaiety: alegría grandiose: grandioso
alimentos, plato gallant: galante, galán, valeroso grandly: grandiosamente,
fool: engañar, necio, tonto gambols: brinca grandemente
foolish: zote, tonto, necio, bobo game: juego, el juego, partido, caza grasp: agarrar, asir, coger, empuñar,
foot: pie, pata, el pie, pujamen gape: bostezo asimiento, aferrar
force: fuerza, forzar, obligar, virtud gaping: abertura, hueco, abrir la boca, grass: hierba, yerba, césped, la hierba,
forced: forzado abrir boquete en, boquete, vacío, pasto
forces: efectivo boquiabierto, bostezar, intervalo, grateful: agradecido
forcing: compulsión abrir brecha en, bostezo gratify: satisfacemos, gratifico,
forefinger: dedo índice garland: guirnalda gratifiquen, satisface, gratifican,
foremost: primero, principal garlic: ajo, el ajo satisfacéis, gratificas, satisfacen,
forerunner: precursor garments: ornamentos satisfaces, satisfagan, satisfago
foreword: prefacio, prólogo gate: puerta, paso, verja, compuerta, gravity: gravedad
forget: olvidar, olvidan, olviden, barrera greasy: grasiento, gordo, grueso,
olvidas, olvidamos, olvidáis, gather: recoger, deducir, reunir, untuoso
olvidad, olvida, olvide, olvido, recolectar, cosechar greater: mayor

greatest: máximo, máxima
greece: Grecia
greet: saludar, saludad, saludáis,
saludamos, saludan, saludas,
saluda, saluden, salude, saludo,
acoger
grip: gripe, asir, agarrar, coger,
agarre, apretar, empuñar
groin: ingle
grossness: grosería
ground: suelo, terreno, tierra, molido,
masa, conexión a tierra, el suelo,
fondo, fundamento
grounds: terreno
grow: crecer, crecen, crezco, crece,
creced, crecemos, crezcan, crecéis,
creces, crezca, cultivar
growing: creciendo, aumentando,
creciente, crecimiento
growled: gruñido
growlingly: gruñir
grown: crecido, aumentado, adulto
grown-up: adulto, mayor, persona
mayor, crecido
grows: crece, aumenta
grudge: rencor
guard: guardia, guardar, vigilar,
cobrador, guarda, revisor, defender,
proteger, amparar
guess: adivinar, suponer, suposición,
asumir
guide: guía, guiar, mandar, dirigir,
conducir
guts: intestinos
ha: ah, decir ah, ja
hag: bruja
hail: granizo, granizar, alabar,
pedrisco
hair: pelo, cabello, el pelo, vello
hall: vestíbulo, corredor, sala, hall
hamlet: pueblecito, aldea, caserío
hands: las manos
hand-to-hand: de mano a mano
handy: hábil, manuable
happens: pasa, acontece, ocurre,
sucede, acaece
happiness: felicidad, alegría, dicha
happy: feliz, alegre, contento
hard: duro, difícil, tieso
hardy: robusto, fuerte, resistente,
audaz
hares: liebres
hark: escuchar con atención, prestar
oído a, escuche, escuchar, escucha,
oye
harlot: ramera, prostituta
harlotry: amores de cuerpo,
prostitución
harmonic: armónico
harmony: armonía
harsh: áspero, severo, brusco, bronco,
duro
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haste: prisa, precipitación loma
hasten: acelerar, apresurar hinges: goznes, bisagras
hatch: escotilla, incubar hips: las caderas
hate: odiar, odio, aborrecer, detestar historical: histórico
haven: asilo hit: golpear, acertar, golpe, pegar,
haven't: no tener llamar, éxito
hazardous: arriesgado, peligroso hither: acá
heads: cabezas, administradores hoard: acumular, acaparar
healthy: sano, saludable hobble: cojera, cojear
heap: montón, grupo, cúmulo, hoisting: elevación, Levantar
amontonar, pila hold: tener, sujetar, continuar,
heaping: apilado, cucharita colmada, retención, sostener, contener,
amontonar, amontonamiento, mantener, retenido, presa, bodega
acumulación hollow: hueco, cavidad, hondonada,
hear: oír, oigan, oyes, oyen, oye, oís, vacuo
oigo, oíd, oímos, oiga holy: santo, sagrado
heard: oído homer: Homero
hearken: escuchar homeric: homérico
hears: oye homogeneous: homogéneo
heart: corazón, cogollo honest: honrado, sincero, honesto
heartless: sin corazón honour: honor, homenaje
hearts: corazones, copas hooting: Silbar
heats: eliminatorias preliminares, hopeless: desesperado
acalorado horizon: horizonte
heaven: cielo horse: caballo, el caballo, potro, cabio
heavens: cielo, cielos host: anfitrión, huésped, posadero,
heels: taco, tacón hostia
height: altura, altitud, elevación, la hot: caliente, picante, caluroso
altura, estatura, cerro hotly: calurosamente
held: tuvo lugar, sostuvo hours: horas, las horas
helen: Helena household: hogar, casa
hell: infierno howling: aullido, lamentarse,
hellenic: helénico clamoroso, aullador, alarido, aullar,
helm: timón, volante, yelmo lamento, gritar, rugir, grito, dar
helmet: casco alaridos
helpless: desvalido, impotente hugely: enormemente,
helter-skelter: tobogán, desbandada inmensamente, muy
general, a la desbandada, a human: humano
trochemoche, ajetreadamente, humanistic: humanístico
ajetreado, atropelladamente humbly: humildemente
hemp: cáñamo humorous: humorístico, cómico
hence: de aquí a, por tanto humour: humor
henceforth: de aquí en adelante hungrily: con hambre
herald: heraldo hungry: hambriento
herbs: hierbas hunting: cazando, caza, penduleo,
herd: manada, grupo, rebaño cacería
hermaphroditic: hermafrodita hurl: lanzamiento, arrojar, lanzar
heroic: heroico hurly-burly: gritería
herself: sí, ella misma, se, sí misma hurricane: huracán
hesitate: vacilar, vacile, vacilan, hurry: apresurarse, prisa
vacila, vacilad, vacilamos, vacilo, hurt: doler, herir, dañar, herida,
vacilas, vacilen, vaciláis, titubear lastimar
hey: eh, hola hurtled: lanzado
hide: ocultar, oculto, oculta, oculte, husband: marido, esposo, el esposo
ocultas, ocultan, ocultamos, ocultáis, hussy: follador, desvergonzada,
ocultad, oculten, piel pícara, descarado
hierarchy: jerarquía hustle: empujón, empujar
higher: superior hymn: himno
highest: sumo, el más alto, suma, hypothetical: hipotético
máximo, sumamente, alto, máxima i'd: Hago
highly: muy, sumamente ideal: ideal
hill: colina, loma, cerro, la colina, la idealistic: idealista
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idiotic: idiota, tonto
idle: ocioso, haraganear, perezoso,
inactivo, en reposo
idly: ociosamente
ignoring: ignorando
i'm: soy
image: imagen, grabado, retrato,
reproducción
imagery: imaginería
imagination: imaginación
imagine: figurarse, imaginar,
imaginad, imaginen, imagine,
imaginas, imaginan, imagino,
imaginamos, imagináis, imagina
imbecile: imbécil
immediate: inmediato
immediately: inmediatamente, ahora
mismo, directamente, en seguida, en
el acto
immense: inmenso
immolate: inmolar, inmole, inmolen,
inmolan, inmolo, inmolas, inmoláis,
inmolad, inmola, inmolamos
immoral: inmoral
immorality: inmoralidad
immortal: inmortal, imperecedero
immunity: inmunidad
impaled: empalado
impeccable: impecable
impertinence: impertinencia
impinge: chocar
impiously: impíamente
importance: importancia
importunity: importunidad
impossible: imposible
imprudent: imprudente
imputed: imputado
inaccessible: inaccesible
incessant: incesante
inch: pulgada
include: incluir, incluya, incluid,
incluyo, incluyes, incluyen, incluye,
incluyan, incluís, incluimos,
contener
indeed: verdaderamente, en efecto,
de veras, en realidad, efectivamente
indifference: indiferencia
individual: individuo, individual
individuals: personas
indoors: dentro, dentro de
induced: inducido
indulge: satisfacer, beber, complacer,
complacerse, condescender con,
consentir, consienta, dar gusto a, dar
rienda suelta, favorecer, mimar
ingenious: ingenioso
inhabit: habitar, habite, habitan,
habito, habitas, habitamos, habitáis,
habitad, habita, habiten
iniquitous: inicuo
injury: lesión, herida, daño
innocent: inocente, inculpable, el
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inocente
inquire: preguntar, inquirís,
inquieran, inquiere, inquieren,
inquieres, inquiero, inquirid,
inquirimos, inquiera, inquirir
insane: demente, loco
inscribed: inscrito
insect: insecto, el insecto
insensate: sin sensato, inconsciente,
insensible, insensato
inside: dentro, dentro de, interior,
adentro, en, por, interna
insists: insiste, insta
insolence: insolencia
insolent: insolente, procaz
inspiration: inspiración
inspired: inspirado
instant: momento, instante,
momentito, instantáneo
instantly: al instante, directamente,
instantáneamente, en seguida
instead: en cambio
instinct: instinto
intellectual: intelectual
intellectuality: intelectualidad
intelligence: inteligencia
intended: destinado, destinado a,
intencional, intentar, pensar,
proponerse, proyectado, querer, ser
destinado a, tener la intención de, a
propósito
intensity: intensidad
intent: intento, intención, propósito
intention: intención
interested: interesado
interwoven: entretejido
intimate: íntimo, cómodo, intimo
introduce: presentar, presente,
presento, presenta, presentad,
presentáis, presentamos, presentan,
presenten, presentas, introducir
introduced: presentado, introducido
intrude: meterse, molestar,
entremeterse, entrometerse,
estorbar, imponer en, imponga,
incursionar, intervenir, meter,
encajarse
invented: inventado
inviolable: inquebrantable
invite: invitar, invitas, invita, invite,
invitan, invitamos, invitáis, invitad,
invito, inviten
invoke: invocar, invoque, invoca,
invocas, invoco, invocan, invoquen,
invocamos, invocáis, invocad,
llamar
invokes: invoca, suplica
involved: implicado, comprometido
invulnerable: invulnerable
inward: interior, interno
inwards: tripas, hacia el centro, hacia
adentro
io: Io
ironic: irónico
irrefutable: irrefutable, irrebatible,
irrefragable
i've: he, Tengo
jack: gato, jota, sota, para conectar
algún aparto electrotécnico, clavija,
para sujetar el coche cuando se
cambia una rueda
jaw: mandíbula, mordaza, quijada
jealously: celosamente
jesting: chistes, dichos, en broma,
chistoso, chanzas, bromas,
bromeando, burlón, guasón
jingling: tintineando, cascabeleo
jog: empujoncito, trotar, empujar,
ajuste por avances sucesivos
jogged: Corrido
join: juntar, junta, junto, reunir,
reunirse, junten, juntáis, juntamos,
juntan, juntas, junte
jointing: llagueado, conexión
joking: bromeando
jostling: empellar, empellones,
empujar, empujones
joy: alegría
joyous: jubiloso, gozoso, de jubiloso,
alegre
juggling: hacer malabares, hacer
malabarismos, juglaria, malabar,
malabarismo, malabares
justice: justicia
justly: justamente
keeping: guardando, vigilando,
custodia, cuidado, conservando,
preservando
keeps: guarda, vigila, conserva,
preserva
kept: guardado, vigilado,
conservado, preservado
kick: patada, patear, puntapié,
cocear, dar patadas, coz
kicking: patear
kindle: encender, encienda, enciendo,
enciendan, encendéis, encendemos,
encended, enciende, enciendes,
encienden, inflamar
kindly: amablemente,
bondadosamente, amable
kiss: besar, beso, besarse
kissed: Besado
kisses: besos
kissing: besar
knavish: bribón, bellaco
knead: amasar, amase, amasad,
amaso, amasen, amasas, amasan,
amasáis, amasa, amasamos
kneeling: arrodillar, arrodillarse,
estar de rodillas, arrodillado, de
rodillas, arrodillando
knees: rodillas
knights: caballeros

knit: tejer
knock: llamar, golpear, golpe, topar,
tocar, llamar a la puerta
knocking: llamar a la puerta,
llamada, golpeteo, golpes, golpeo,
golpear, golpe, choque, chocar,
aldabonazo, topar
knot: nudo, correlimos gordo, lazo
knows: sabe, conoce
la: la, Loisiana
laches: tardanza, prescripción
negativa
lack: falta, carencia, escasez, faltar,
carecer de, carecer
lacking: carente, faltar
lad: muchacho, chico
lady: dama, señora
lag: atrasarse, retraso, retardo
laid: puesto, colocado, recostado,
acostado
lance: lanza, lanzar
land: tierra, aterrizar, país, abordar,
atracar, la tierra, terreno
lane: calleja, senda, carril, pista,
camino
lass: muchacha, chica, la muchacha
late: tarde, tardío, tardo
lately: últimamente
laughter: risa, la risa, carcajada
lavish: pródigo
laws: las leyes
lay: poner, colocar, coloque,
colocamos, pongan, ponga, pones,
ponen, ponemos, ponéis, poned
laying: colocando, poniendo
lead: plomo, guiar, guía, conducir,
guiáis, guiamos, guían, guías, guíe,
guíen, guío
leap: saltar, salto, brincar, el salto
learn: aprender, aprenda,
aprendemos, aprendes, aprendo,
aprenden, aprended, aprendan,
aprende, aprendéis, estudiar
least: menos, mínimo, menor
leave: salir, sal, sale, salís, salimos,
salgo, salgan, salga, sales, salen,
saled
legs: las piernas
leisure: ocio, el ocio, tiempo libre
lengthy: largo
lent: prestado, cuaresma
lesser: menor, menos
lest: para que no, a no ser que, con el
fin de, no sea que, si es necesario
let's: permitanos
levy: exigir
liberating: liberando
libertine: libertino
liberty: libertad, la libertad
lie: mentir, mentira, yacer, estar
tendido, embuste, echarse
lift: ascensor, levantar, subir, alzar,
Aristophanes
elevar, elevación, levante, desnivel
entre tramos, sustentación
lifted: levantado
light: luz, claro, ligero, encender,
alumbrar, débil, liviano, la luz,
radiación visible, lámpara, iluminar
lightly: ligeramente
lightning: relámpago, rayo, el
relámpago
liked: apreciable, estimado,
apreciado
limp: cojear, cojera, claudicar, flojo
lines: partida de matrimonio, destino,
pauta, especificado de líneas, líneas,
papel
lion: león
lips: labios, los labios
listen: escuchar, escuche, escucha,
escuchas, escuchad, escuchen,
escucho, escucháis, escuchamos,
escuchan, oír
listening: escuchando
listens: escucha
literature: literatura, la literatura
live: vivir, viven, vive, vivo, vivan,
vivís, vivimos, vives, viva, vivid,
habitar
livelong: durante el día, entero, todo,
de todo el día
lives: Vive, habita
living: viviendo, habitando, vivo,
viviente
load: carga, cargar, la carga, cargo
loads: las cargas
loaf: pan, barra, holgazanear
loafers: gandules
loathe: detestar, aborrecer,
detestamos, detesto, detesten,
deteste, detestan, detestáis, detestad,
detesta, detestas
locked: estén aseguradas, cerrado,
bloqueado, protegido
lofty: alto, encumbrado
logic: lógica
logical: lógico
logs: bloques, libros de control,
troncos
loins: los lomos
loneliness: soledad, la soledad
lonely: solitario, solo
longer: más, más tiempo
looks: mira
loose: suelto, flojo
loosen: aflojar, afloje, aflojas, aflojen,
aflojan, aflojamos, aflojáis, aflojad,
afloja, aflojo, desatar
loosening: aflojando
loot: botín, saquear
lopped: demochado, cercenado,
podado, desmochado, cortado
lopsided: desequilibrado
lord: señor, caballero
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lost: perdido, adelgazado
lot: lote, porción, solar
loudly: en alta voz, ruidosamente
louring: oscurecer
loved: amado, estimado, querido,
considerado
lovely: hermoso, bonito, encantador,
agradable, magnífico, adorable,
caro, lindo
lover: querido, amante, novio
loves: amor
lower: bajar, baja, bajo, bajen, baje,
bajas, bajan, bajamos, bajáis, bajad,
inferior
lowest: ínfimo, bajo
loyalty: lealtad, fidelidad
lucid: lúcido
luck: suerte, la suerte
lugging: Arrastrar, llevando
lump: pedazo, masa, terrón, pieza,
bola, tela, grumo, bulto, chichón,
pella
lumping: Amontonar
lunatic: lunático
lunging: Lanzar
luscious: delicioso
lust: lujuria
lusty: lozano
luxurious: lujoso, suntuoso
lying: mentiroso
lyric: texto
lyricism: lirismo
mad: loco, enojado, chiflado, majara,
majareta, demente, enfadado
madden: enloquecer, enloquezco,
enloquece, enloqueced, enloquecéis,
enloquecemos, enloquecen,
enloqueces, enloquezca,
enloquezcan
madly: locamente
madness: locura, demencia,
chifladura
magistrate: magistrado
maidens: doncellas
makes: hace, comete, confecciona
malady: enfermedad
malcontent: descontento,
malcontento, disgustado, desafecto
male: masculino, macho, varón
manage: administrar, administras,
administro, administren, administre,
administrad, administráis,
administramos, administra,
administran, mandar
managed: administrado, Manejado,
gestionado, dirigido
marble: mármol, canica, jaspear
marched: Marchado
marshy: pantanoso
martial: marcial
mated: apareado
material: tela, material
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mating: unión, apareamiento
matter: materia, asunto, particular,
caso, importar
meant: pret de mean
measure: medida, medir
meat: carne, la carne, carnes
mechanism: mecanismo
meddling: entretenimiento
meditating: meditando
meet: encontrar, encontrad,
encuentro, encuentren, encuentre,
encuentras, encuentran,
encontramos, encontráis, encuentra,
quedar
melancholy: melancolía, melancólico
melody: melodía
melting: deshielo, fusión, derretirse,
fundición
memory: memoria, recuerdo, la
memoria
menace: amenaza, amenazar,
conminación, conminar
mendaciously: mendazmente,
deshonestamente, falsamente,
mentirosamente
menelaus: Menelao
menial: criado
men's: varonil
mention: mencionar, mención
mercy: misericordia, compasión
mere: mero
merely: meramente, simplemente,
sólo
merge: fusionar, fusión, fundirse,
fundir, fusiona, fusionen, fusione,
fusionas, fusionan, fusionamos,
fusionáis
merrily: alegremente
merry: alegre
method: método, procedimiento
methods: los métodos, métodos
middle: medio, centro
midwife: comadrona, partera
mighty: poderoso
milesian: irlandés
mine: mina, mío, minar
minute: minuto, el minuto, minuta,
menudo
minx: bribona
mirror: espejo, el espejo, reflejar
mischief: travesura
miserable: pobre, deplorable, malo,
triste, indigente, menesteroso,
afligido, necesitado, desgraciado,
miserable
misinterpret: interpretar mal
misinterprets: malinterpreta
mistakes: errores
mistress: señora
misunderstand: entender mal
mix: mezclar, mezcla, combinar
mob: chusma, turba, canalla
Lysistrata
mocking: burlarse, falso, imitar,
burlas, burlador, burlón, burla,
fingido, escarnecer, engañar,
imitado
mole: topo, lunar, mol
monstrosity: monstruosidad
moral: moral, moraleja
mortal: mortal
mortality: mortalidad
mortify: mortificar, mortifican,
mortifiquen, mortificas,
mortificamos, mortificáis,
mortificad, mortifica, mortifico,
mortifique
mothers: las madres
mount: montar, acomodar, montaña,
adaptar
mounted: montado
mouth: boca, desembocadura, la boca
move: mover, conmover, moverse,
mudar, mudanza, movimiento,
trasladar, traslado, mudarse, jugada
moves: mueve
muddle: enredo
mummy: momia
munching: mascando
muse: musa, meditar
music: música
mustered: Congregó
mute: mudo, muda, sordina
mutual: mutuo, mutua
myrrh: mirra
myself: yo mismo
mysteries: misterios
mysteriously: misteriosamente
mystery: misterio, el misterio
naked: desnudo
nakedness: desnudez
named: denominado
napping: perchado, dormitar
nasty: feo, sucio, horrible, malo,
deshonesto, astuto, horroroso,
desagradable, lúgubre
nation: nación, pueblo, población
natural: natural
naturally: naturalmente
naughty: travieso, malo
nauseous: nauseabundo
nd: neutral density
near: cerca, próximo, cerca de,
cercano, entrante, casi
nearby: cerca, próximo, cerca de,
entrante, cercano, adyacente,
contiguo, vecino
nearly: casi
neat: pulcro, ordenado
neatly: aseadamente
necessary: necesario
neck: cuello, el cuello, garganta,
pescuezo, cerviz
necklace: collar, el collar
needs: necesidades
negation: negación
neglecting: Descuidar
neighbour: vecino
nerve: nervio
nerves: nervios, nervio
nest: nido, el nido, anidar
nestling: acurrucándose, anidando,
pajarito en el nido, anidar
net: red, neto, la red
nettles: molesta, provoca, irrita,
Ortigas
nevertheless: no obstante, sin
embargo
news: noticias, noticia, nueva, las
noticias
nexus: nexo
nigh: cercano
nimble: ágil
noble: hidalgo, noble
noise: ruido, alboroto, el ruido
noisily: ruidosamente,
clamorosamente, alborotadamente
none: ninguno, nadie, nada
nonsense: tontería
noon: mediodía
note: nota, apuntar, billete, anotar,
apunte, anotación, notar
notice: cartel, aviso, anuncio, notar,
advertir, nota, notificación, noticias,
noticia, percibir, publicación
nowadays: hoy día, ahora,
actualmente, hoy en día, al presente
nowhere: en ninguna parte
nude: desnudo
nuisance: molestia
numberless: innumerable
o: oxígeno
oared: provisto de remos
oath: juramento
object: objeto, el objeto, objetar
oblation: oblación, oblada, ofrenda,
sacrificio, oblata
observe: observar, observa, observen,
observe, observas, observan,
observad, observáis, observo,
observamos, hacer
obvious: obvio, evidente
occupation: ocupación, oficio,
profesión, empleo, trabajo
occurs: ocurre
offensive: ofensiva, ofensivo
offering: ofrenda, oferta, ofrecer
older: mayor
olive-tree: olivo
omelet: tortilla
omens: agüeros
ominous: ominoso, siniestro
ones: unos
onslaught: asalto
onward: adelante, hacia adelante
opened: abierto
operation: operación,
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funcionamiento, explotación, reojo, mirar, mirada furtiva, mirada
manejo peeps: píos
opposing: afrontando, combatiendo, peering: mirar
contraponiendo, contrariando, pell-mell: atropelladamente
impugnando, oponiendo, perceive: percibir, perciben, percibes,
resistiendo, opuesta, oponerse a, percibe, perciban, percibid,
oponer, encontrado percibimos, percibís, percibo,
opposite: enfrente de, opuesto, perciba
contra, enfrente, contrario, frente a, perchance: quizás, tal vez
frontero perfume: perfume, el perfume,
oppression: opresión perfumar
oracle: oráculo perilous: peligroso
orgy: orgía perish: perecer, perecéis, perezco,
original: original perezcan, pereces, perecemos,
ours: nuestro pereced, perece, perecen, perezca
ourselves: nosotros mismos perjury: perjurio
outlay: desembolso perpetrated: perpetrado
outlived: sobrevivido persevere: perseverar, perseveramos,
ox: buey persevero, perseveren, persevere,
pacifistic: pacifista perseveran, perseveráis, perseverad,
pack: paquete, empacar, embalar, persevera, perseveras
empaquetar, manada, envolver persians: pérsico
packed: guardado, empacado, personal: propio, personal
embalado, comprimido, lleno, persuade: convencer, convences,
marcado, apuesto convence, convenzan, convenzo,
tendenciosamente, aborrotado, convenza, convencemos, convenced,
abarrotado, hasta los topes convencéis, convencen, persuadir
pact: pacto pestering: importunando
pain: dolor, el dolor, pena, phallic: fálico
sufrimiento phallus: falo
paining: Afligir phew: uf
painting: pintura, cuadro, la pintura, philip: Felipe
pintar philosophic: filosófico
pair: par, pareja, emparejar phosphor: luminóforo, fósforo
palatable: sabroso phrase: frase, expresar, expresión
pale: pálido, palidecer, descolorido pick: picar, piquen, pican, picamos,
palsied: paralítico, paralizado, picáis, picad, picas, pique, pica, pico,
temblante, tembloroso arrancar
pampered: mimado picking: picando
pamphlet: folleto, panfleto pierced: agujereado
pan: sartén, cacerola pile: montón, pilote, pila, pelo,
panted: jadeado amontonar, estaca
panthers: panteras piled: amontonado
pap: papilla pious: piadoso, pío, beato
partisans: partidarios, fuerzas pipe: pipa, cañería, tubo, tubería,
guerrilleras conducto, la pipa
parts: talento, regiones, piezas, partes pitch: paso, pez, grado de inclinación,
pass: pasar, adelantar, paso, pase, tono, cabeceo, diapasón, altura,
desfiladero, entregar, pasada, brea, pendiente
aprobar, alargar, paso de montaña, pitiful: lastimoso, deplorable
llegar pitiless: despiadado
passing: paso pity: dolerse por, piedad,
passion: pasión compadecer a, lástima, compasión
passionate: apasionado plague: plaga, peste, atormentar
patch: remendar, parche plain: llanura, llano, claro, evidente,
patted: tocado liso, plano
paul: Pablo plainly: simplemente
pawn: empeñar, peón, prenda, plan: plano, propósito, proyectar,
pignorar diseño, planificar, plan, intención,
peace: paz, la paz proyecto, planear, esquema
peep: ojeada, pie, piara, piar, pío pío, plane: plano, avión, cepillo,
pío, mirar furtivamente, mirar de aeroplano, propósito, cepillar, plana
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plato: Platón
platonic: platónico
platter: plato
play: jugar, jueguen, juega, juegan,
juegue, jugad, jugáis, jugamos,
juegas, juego, tocar
played: jugado, tocado
plea: súplica, argumento, alegato
pleasant: agradable, simpático,
placentero, grato
please: por favor, agradar, gustar,
complacer, haz el favor, contentar,
haz favor
pledge: prenda, dinero del envase,
prometer, pignoración, empeñar
plenipotentiary: plenipotenciario
plight: situación
plodding: trabajando, extrusión,
laborioso
plotters: trazador
plough: arado, arar
plucked: arrancado
plunder: pillaje, botín, saqueo
plunge: bucear, zambullida,
zambullirse
poem: poema, el poema
poet: poeta, el poeta
poetry: poesía
pointing: rejuntado
poised: listo, suspendido, serenidad,
equilibrio, en equilibrio,
compostura, balancear, sereno,
equilibrar
poked: metido
polite: cortés, educado
politician: político, hombre político
politics: política
poor: pobre, malo, deplorable,
indigente, miserable
populace: populacho
porter: portero, mozo, conserje
portion: porción, parte, ración
poseidon: Poseidón
positive: positivo
post: poste, correo, empleo, cargo,
puesto, oficio, apostar, posta,
función, fijar, estaca
postern: poterna
pot: olla, orinal, jarro
pots: servicio telefónico analógico
convencional, montones
pounded: golpeado
powdered: empolvar, empolvarse, en
polvo, pólvora, polvo, polvorear,
pulverizado, pulverizar
powers: potestades
practically: prácticamente
practised: experto, hábil
praise: alabar, alabanza, elogio,
elogiar
pray: rezar, rezáis, rezas, rezamos,
rezad, reza, recen, rece, rezan, rezo,
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rogar
praying: rezando, orando, rogando
precedence: prioridad, precedencia
precincts: alrededores
preciosity: amaneramiento,
preciosismo
precipice: precipicio, despeñadero,
abismo, derrumbadero
precisely: precisamente
predilection: predilección
prejudice: prejuicio
preparation: preparación, preparado,
preparativo
prepare: preparar, preparas, prepare,
prepara, preparad, preparáis,
preparan, preparo, preparen,
preparamos, prepararse
preposterous: absurdo
presaging: presintiendo,
pronosticando, presagioso,
presagiando
present: presente, actual, presentar,
regalo, contemporáneo, ofrecer,
reproducir, retratar
preservers: conservadores para
alimentos
pressure: presión, instancia,
insistencia, empuje
presumption: presunción, derecho,
pretensión
pretence: pretensión, derecho
pretend: fingir, fingimos, finjo, fingís,
fingid, finges, fingen, finge, finjan,
finja, pretender
pretties: bastante
prettily: bonitamente
pretty: bonito, lindo, majo, amable,
guapo, bastante, guapa
prevent: impedir, impedid, impido,
impides, impiden, impide, impidan,
impida, impedimos, impedís,
prevenir
price: precio, el precio, costo
pride: orgullo
primitive: primitivo, primitiva
primly: estiradamente, estrictamente
primp: emperejilarse, acicalar,
acicálese
prise: palanca, apalancamiento
probe: sonda, sondear, sensor,
examinar
proceed: proceder, actuar
produce: producir, producid,
produzco, produzcan, produzca,
producimos, produces, producen,
produce, producís, realizar
profoundly: profundamente
progeny: descendencia, progenie
progression: progresión
projected: proyectado
promenade: paseo
promise: prometer, prometéis,
Lysistrata
prometemos, prometen, prometo,
promete, prometan, prometa,
prometes, prometed, promesa
promised: prometido
promote: promover, promovemos,
promuevo, promovéis, promuevan,
promueve, promueven, promueves,
promoved, promueva, ascender
properly: correctamente, como es
debido, debidamente
propitious: propicio, favorable
propose: proponer, propon,
proponed, propongo, propongan,
propones, proponen, proponéis,
propone, proponemos, proponga
proud: orgulloso
proverbs: proverbios
proves: prueba, verifica
provoked: provocado
prying: entrometido
psyche: psique
puff: bollo esponjado, bocanada,
soplo
pugnacious: belicoso
pull: tirar, tiramos, tiráis, tirad, tiran,
tiras, tiren, tire, tira, tiro, halar
pulley: polea
pulse: pulso, impulso, pulsación
punch: ponche, perforar,
sacabocados, punzón, puñetazo
purify: purificar, purifica, purificad,
purifiquen, purifico, purificas,
purifican, purificamos, purificáis,
purifique, depurar
purple: morado, púrpura, purpúreo,
lila
purpose: fin, objeto, finalidad,
propósito, intención
pushing: emprendedor, molesto,
empujar, ambicioso, empuje
puts: pone, mete, coloca
pyre: pira
quaff: beber a grandes tragos
quaking: temblar, temblante
quarters: cuarta, cuartel, cuarteles,
cuarto, alojamiento, cuartos traseros,
domicilio, puesto de combate,
trasero
queen: reina, la reina, dama
quell: sofocar, sofoca, sofocas,
sofoque, sofoquen, sofoco,
sofocamos, sofocad, sofocáis,
sofocan
quench: extingan, sofocad, sofoca,
extinguís, extinguimos, extinguid,
extingues, extinguen, sofocáis,
extingo, aplacáis
quick: rápido, pronto
quickly: rápidamente, de prisa,
aprisa, pronto
quiet: quieto, silencio, tranquilo,
calmar, silencioso, sosegar, callado
quietly: calladamente,
silenciosamente
rabid: rabioso
rack: bastidor, rejilla, perchero,
estante, estantería, cremallera,
anaquel
racked: atormentado
rage: rabia, furia, furor, ira
raging: rabioso, furioso
rags: los trapos
raid: correría, incursión, batida
raise: levantar, entonar, criar, subir,
alzar, elevar, alza, izar, aumento
raised: alzado, elevado, en relieve,
levantado, peraltada, recrecido
rambling: vagaroso
rampageous: furioso
ran: corrió, participio pasivo del
verbo run, pret de run
ranged: recorrido
rare: raro
rarefied: rarefacido, refinado,
rarificarse, rarificar, rarificado,
rarefacer, enrarecido
rascal: bribón
rash: sarpullido, erupción,
precipitado, salpullido, erupción
cutánea
ratified: ratificado, revalidado
rationalizing: racionalizando
rattling: zumbar, muy, rápido,
vaivén, realmente, estupendo
ravaging: destrozando
ravenous: voraz, hambriento
reach: alcanzar, alcance
reaction: reacción
readiness: prontitud
ready: listo, preparado, propenso,
disponible
realize: comprender, entender, darse
cuenta de, entended, entiendo,
entiendes, entienden, entiende,
entiendan, entienda, entendemos
reared: criado
reason: motivo, causa, razón, lugar,
razonar
reasons: razona
rebellious: rebelde
recognise: reconozca, reconocer
recognize: reconocer, reconozco,
reconoced, reconocéis, reconocemos,
reconocen, reconozcan, reconoces,
reconozca, reconoce
reconcile: reconciliar, se reconcilian,
reconcilíate, reconcilíense,
reconcilíese, reconcilíados, se
reconcilia, me reconcilio, os
reconciliáis, te reconcilias, nos
reconciliamos
reconciliation: conciliación,
reconciliación
recover: recuperar, sanar, recupere,

sanad, recuperad, recuperáis,
recuperamos, recuperan, recuperas,
recuperen, recupero
re-establish: restableza, restablecer,
restablezca, restablecen,
restablezcan, restableces,
restablecéis, restablece, restableced,
restablezco, restablecemos
reformation: reformación, reposición,
reforma
reformer: reformador
refrain: estribillo, abstenerse
refuse: rehusar, rechazar, denegar,
desecho, desechos, detrito, negar
refused: rehusado
refusing: Rehusar
regard: mirar, considerar, mira,
miran, miráis, miro, miramos,
mirad, miras, mire, miren
regretted: Lamentado
rejected: rechazado
rejoices: alboroza, alegra, deleita,
jubila
relate: contar, relacionar, cuentan,
cuento, cuenten, cuentas, cuenta,
contamos, contáis, contad, cuente
relation: relación, conexión
relatively: relativamente
relentless: implacable
relief: alivio, relieve, socorro,
asistencia, relevo
reluctance: reluctancia, renuencia,
desgana
rely: confiar, confíe, confías, confían,
confíen, confiáis, confío, confiad,
confía, confiamos
remark: comentario, observación,
reparo, censura, nota, notar
remember: recordar, recuerde,
recuerdo, recuerdan, recuerdas,
recuerden, recordamos, recordad,
recordáis, recuerda, acordarse de
remembered: recordado
remind: recordar, recuerdo, recuerde,
recuerdas, recuerdan, recuerda,
recordamos, recordáis, recordad,
recuerden
remorse: remordimiento
repealed: Revocado
repeat: repetir, repita, repitan, repito,
repites, repetid, repite, repetís,
repetimos, repiten, reiterar
reply: respuesta, responder,
contestación, contestar
reproach: reproche, censurar,
reprender, reprobar, desaprobar,
reprochar
repulsive: repulsivo
reputation: reputación
rescue: salvar, rescate, rescatar,
socorro, salvamento
resources: medio, recursos
Aristophanes
respects: rispetti, saludos, recuerdos
response: respuesta, contestación
responsible: responsable
rest: descansar, descanso, resto,
detrito, desechos, reposar, reposo
restless: inquieto
retire: retirarse
retires: dimite, jubila, recoge, retira,
abandona
return: volver, devolver, regresar,
retorno, devolución, rendimiento,
vuelta
returned: devuelto
returning: volver
returns: devolver, reembolso,
ganancias, devoluciones, cheques y
letras devueltos, retorno,
rendimiento, remuneración, regreso,
ingresos, volver
revelry: juerga, diversión tumultuosa,
fiestas, jarana, jolgorio
rhythm: ritmo
rich: rico
ridiculous: ridículo
rigged: aparejado
righteous: virtuoso, honrado
rightly: debidamente
ringing: zumbido, sonando,
sobreoscilación
riot: disturbio, alboroto, ruido
rip: descoser, descosido, desgarrón,
Protocolo de información de
enrutamiento, raja, rasgón,
rasgadura, rasgar, rasgarse, rasgo,
agua revuelta
rippling: ondulación, rizar
rise: subir, levantarse, aumento,
levantamiento, alza, subida
risen: subido, pp de rise
rising: creciente, subida, alcista
risk: riesgo, arriesgar
rival: competidor, competir
roaring: rugiente, rugido, rugir,
clamoroso
roast: asar, asado, tostar, carne asada
rob: robar, robo, robe, robamos, roba,
robáis, roban, robas, roben, robad,
despojar
robes: ropaje
rogue: pícaro
rogues: pícaros
rooster: gallo, el gallo
root: raíz
rooted: arraigado
rope: cuerda, soga, la cuerda, cabo
rose: rosa, la rosa
rosily: agradablemente, rosadamente,
rosáceamente
rosy: rosado
rowdy: camorrista
rub: frotar, refregar, friccionar
rubs: frota
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ruddy: rojo
rude: grosero, rudo, insolente,
descortés
ruffian: rufián
ruined: arruinado
rule: regla, gobernar, la regla, norma,
fallar, refrenar, dominio, subyugar,
reprimir, regir, contener
rump: anca, rabadilla
runs: corre
rush: apresurarse, junco, prisa
sack: saco, despedir, bolso
sacred: sagrado, sacro
sacrificing: sacrificar
sad: triste, afligido
saddened: entristecido
saddle: montura
sae: asociación de ingenieros de
automóviles
safeguarded: asegurado,
salvaguardado
saffron: azafrán
sail: vela, navegar, la vela
sails: paño
sake: motivo, fin, bien, causa
sanctuary: santuario
sands: banco de arena, playa
sang: pret de sing, cantó
sappho: safo
saturates: satura
savage: fiero, salvaje
save: guardar, guarda, guardan,
guardáis, guardamos, guardas,
guarde, guardo, guardad, guarden,
salvar
saved: guardado, salvado, ahorrado
saviour: salvador, redentor
scale: escama, escala, incrustación,
balanza, ascender, escalar, báscula,
subir a
scandal: escándalo
scarcely: apenas, escasamente
scare: espantar, asustar, susto,
amedrentar
scattered: disperso, esparcido
scent: olor, perfume, aroma
scheme: esquema, propósito, plan,
intrigar
scorn: desdén, desdeñar
scoundrel: bribón, sinvergüenza,
canalla
scoundrelly: bribónmente
scrap: chatarra, recorte, desechar,
sobras, desguazar, de desecho
scratch: rascar, arañar, rasguño,
arañazo, rascadura, cancelar, raya,
rasguñar
screaming: llamativo, chillón, chillar,
estridente, grito, gritar
screen: pantalla, trama, mampara,
filtro
scribble: garabato
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scrub: matorral, fregado, maleza
scrupulous: escrupuloso, meticuloso
sea: mar, el mar
seal: foca, sello, sellar, precinto,
precintar
seated: sentado
seduce: seducir, seduzca, seduzco,
seduzcan, seducen, seducís, seduces,
seduce, seducid, seducimos
seed: semilla, la semilla, grano,
simiente, semen, sembrar
seedling: planta de semillero,
plántula, plantón, arbolillo
seeing: viendo, serrando
seek: buscar, busque, busca, buscan,
buscamos, busquen, buscas, buscáis,
buscad, busco
seem: parecer, parezca, parecen,
parezcan, pareces, parezco,
parecemos, parecéis, parece, pareced
sees: Ve, serra
seize: agarrar, coger, agarro, agarre,
agarras, agarra, agarren, agarran,
agarramos, agarráis, agarrad
seizes: agarra, ase
select: seleccionar, seleccionan,
selecciono, seleccionen, seleccionas,
seleccionamos, seleccionáis,
seleccionad, selecciona, seleccione,
escoger
self: mismo
senate: senado
send: enviar, envío, envía, envíe,
enviad, enviáis, enviamos, envían,
envías, envíen, mandar
sending: enviando, mandando,
despachando, envío
senses: juicio, los sentidos, sentido
sensible: sensato, razonable
sensitive: sensible
sensitivity: sensibilidad
sensitized: sensibilizado
sensuality: sensualidad
sent: enviado, mandado, despachado
separate: separado, separar, apartar,
aparte, particular, dividir, separarse,
segregar, independiente, compartir
separated: separado
serious: serio, grave, importante,
crítico
servants: servicio
serve: servir, sirva, sirvo, servimos,
servid, servís, sirvan, sirve, sirven,
sirves
served: servido
settle: despachar, despacha,
despacho, despachas, despachan,
despachamos, despacháis,
despachad, despachen, despache,
establecer
settled: despachado
settles: despacha
Lysistrata
seven: siete
seventeen: diecisiete, diez y siete
sex: sexo, el sexo, tener sexo
shake: sacudir, sacuda, sacudimos,
sacudís, sacudid, sacudes, sacuden,
sacude, sacudan, sacudo, sacudida
shakespeare: Shakespeare
shakespearean: shakesperiano
shaking: sacudiendo, sacudida
shame: vergüenza, verguenza, pudor,
oprobio, avergonzar
shamed: avergonzado
shameless: desvergonzado
share: compartir, acción, parte,
dividir, ración, cuota, lote
sharer: partícipe
sheep: oveja, la oveja
shield: escudo, blindaje, pantalla,
blindar, proteger
shift: turno, desplazamiento,
desplazar, cambiar, jornada, tanda,
cambio
shifting: cambiar, desplazamiento,
movedizo
shining: brillante, luminoso
ships: envía, despacha, expide
shivering: tiritar
shocking: chocante
shop: tienda, hacer las compras, ir de
compras, almacén, taller
shoreward: hacia la costa
short: corto, bajo, breve
shoulder: hombro, el hombro,
espalda, lisera, banquina, reborde,
espaldilla
shoulders: espalda, hombros
shout: gritar, grito
shouted: gritado
shove: empujar, empujón
shows: muestra
shrine: santuario
shun: rehuir, rehuyo, rehuid,
rehuimos, rehuís, rehuyan, rehuye,
rehuyen, rehuyes, rehuya
shut: cerrar, cerrado
shuttle: lanzadera
shy: tímido, vergonzoso
sides: costados, Lados
sideways: de lado
siege: sitio, asedio
sigh: suspirar, suspiro
sight: vista, aspecto, mira, avistar
signed: firmado
significance: significación,
significado, importancia
significant: significativo, significante
silence: silencio, acallar, hacer callar,
el silencio
silent: silencioso, mudo, callado
silk: seda, la seda
silks: gorra y chaquetilla de jockey
silly: tonto, necio, absurdo, bobo
similarly: semejantemente
simple: sencillo, simple
sincere: sincero
sing: cantar, cantan, cantas, canten,
cantamos, cantáis, canta, cantad,
canto, cante
singe: chamuscar
single: soltero, solo, único, simple,
individual
sip: sorber, sorbo
sir: señor
sit: sentarse, estar sentado, sentar
sitting: sesión, sentada
situation: situación
skein: madeja
skies: cielo
skilfully: con destreza, diestramente,
hábilmente
skim: desnatar, desnatan, desnaten,
desnato, desnatas, desnatáis,
desnatad, desnata, desnate,
desnatamos, espumar
skin: piel, cáscara, la piel, cutis, pelar
skinned: descortezado, pelado
skip: saltarse, omitir, brincar, brinco,
salto
skirt: falda, la falda, base de blindaje,
faldón
slam: golpe
slap: palmada, bofetada, abofetear
slapping: rápido, abofeteamiento,
abofetear, batiente
slaughter: matar, matanza, sacrificar,
sacrificio, carnear
slaughtered: matado
slaughtering: matar, matanza
slavish: servil
slay: matar, matad, matáis, matamos,
matan, maten, mato, mate, matas,
mata
sleek: alisar
sleep: dormir, duerme, duermes,
dormimos, duermen, duermo,
dormís, dormid, duerma, duerman,
sueño
sleepless: insomne
sleeve: manga, manguito, la manga,
camisa
slenderness: afilamiento, delgadez,
esbeltez, lo remoto
slide: diapositiva, corredera, resbalar,
tobogán, portaobjetos, deslizar,
deslizador, deslizamiento
slip: deslizamiento, resbalar, desliz,
deslizar, combinación
slipped: resbalado
slipper: zapatilla, pantufla
slippers: zapatillas
slippery: resbaladizo, escurridizo
slipping: corrimiento, resbalar
sluggish: lento, flojo
slut: mujerzuela

smallest: menor
smeared: untó
smell: oler, olor, apestar, oler mal,
olfatear, olfato
smelly: apestoso, maloliente
smelt: eperlano
smite: golpear con violencia
smitten: herido, pegado, aplastado,
castigado, golpeado, pp de smite
smoke: fumar, fumo, fume, fumas,
fuman, fumamos, fumáis, fumad,
fuma, fumen, humo
smokes: fuma, humea
smoky: humeante
smooth: liso, plano, alisar, suavizar,
suave
smoulder: arder sin llama
snatching: arrebatimiento, arrebatar
sneak: chivato
snug: acogedor, cómodo
snuggle: acurrucarse
soap: jabón, enjabonar
sober: sobrio
so-called: llamado
soil: tierra, ensuciar, suelo, manchar
solace: solaz, consolar, consuelo
sold: vendido
soldier: soldado, el soldado
soldierly: soldadesco
sole: lenguado, suela, único, solo,
planta
solve: resolver, resuelve, resuelven,
resuelves, resolvemos, resolved,
resolvéis, resuelvo, resuelvan,
resuelva, solucionar
someone: alguien, alguno, cierto
somewhere: en alguna parte
son: hijo, el hijo
song: canción, canto
soon: pronto, luego
sooner: más pronto
soothed: calmado
sore: dolorido, úlcera, herida, llaga
sorrow: tristeza, pena, dolor
sorry: afligido, arrepentido, pesaroso,
siento, triste
sots: borrachos
soul: alma, espíritu, ánimo
soundly: sanamente, solventemente,
sólidamente, razonablemente,
profundamente, firmemente,
vigorosamente
soup: sopa, la sopa
sow: cerda, sembrar, cochina,
marrana
space: espacio, el espacio, espaciar
spare: sobrante, ahorrar, recambio,
perdonar
sparta: Esparta
spartan: espartano
speak: hablar, hablamos, hablo,
hablas, habláis, hablad, hablen,
Aristophanes
habla, hablan, hable
spear: lanza
spectral: espectral
speed: velocidad, prisa, rapidez, la
velocidad, prontitud
spindle: huso, eje, husillo
spirit: espíritu
spirits: alcohol
spiritual: espiritual
spirituality: espiritualidad
spiritually: espiritualmente
spite: rencor
spitting: escupiendo
spleen: bazo
splendid: espléndido
splendour: fausto, pomposidad,
fulgor, esplendor, lujo
splintered: astilló
split: dividir, partir, ofender,
henderse, división, separarse, grieta,
resquebrajarse, raja, separar, partido
spluttering: farfullar
spoke: decir, radio, rayo, raya,
radioactivo, rayo de rueda, hablar,
pret de speak, expresar
spoken: hablado
spool: bobina, carrete, canilla
spot: mancha, punto, sitio, verrugato
croca, manchar, mancilla, lugar
spread: propagar, extender, difundir,
extensión, untar, diferencial,
extenderse, cobertor
spring: fuente, muelle, saltar,
primavera, resorte, la primavera,
manantial, brincar
springing: saltar
springs: muelle, ballestas, muelles,
resorte, ballesta
sprinkle: salpicar, espolvorear, rociar
sprinted: corrido
sprouting: brotante, brotar, brote
sprung: pp de spring, de muelles,
brotado, saltado
spy: espiar, espía, acechar
squabble: disputa
squandered: malgastado, derrochado
squeeze: apretar, exprimir, apretón,
oprimir, presión, estrujar
st: santo, SAN, sto, sta, santa,
estación, calle
stability: estabilidad
stabilizing: estabilizando
stake: poste, estaca, apostar, puesta
staked: se emplea una contratuerca
de 12 puntos que se apuntala para
asegurarse de que, estacado
stamp: sello, timbrar, sellar, cuño,
estampilla, sello de correos, marca,
estampillar, estampa, estampar, el
sello
stand: estar de pie, puesto,
levantarse, granero, posición,
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cabina, soporte, base, estante, caseta,
pararse
standing: permanente, posición
stands: tenderetes, jaulas
stare: mirar fijamente, mirada fija
staring: llamativo
stately: majestuoso
statement: declaración, sentencia,
instrucción, dicho, estado
stay: quedarse, quedar, queden,
quede, quedas, quedan, quedamos,
quedáis, quedad, queda, quedo
stay-at-home: muy casera
steaming: humeante
step: paso, escalón, peldaño
steps: pasos
stern: popa, severo
stick: pegar, palo, bastón
sticks: leño, vara, palillo, adherir,
batuta, palo, pegar, ramitas, punzar,
picar
stifled: se ahogado, sofocado,
reprimido, callado, suprimido
sting: picar, aguijón, picadura,
punzar, pinchar
stirring: agitación, conmovedor,
emocionante, inspirador, removida,
turbulento
stolen: robado
stood: pret y pp de stand
stop: parar, paran, paras, paren,
paráis, parad, paramos, pare, para,
paro, parada
store: tienda, almacenar, almacén, la
tienda, memoria, depósito
storm: tormenta, tempestad, la
tormenta, borrasca, tomar por asalto
stormy: tempestuoso, tormentoso
story: historia, piso, cuento, relato, el
cuento
stow: estibar, estibad, estibo, estiben,
estibe, estibas, estiban, estibamos,
estibáis, estiba, guardar
straddle: cabalgue, de forma que la
cinta quede entre sus piernas,
encuadrar, esparrancarse encima de,
no comprometerse, alcance, montar,
montar a horcajadas, montura,
especulación mixta, opción doble
straight: derecho, recto, directamente,
recta
straightaway: en seguida
straightforward: sencillo, simple,
franco
strain: colar, esfuerzo, deformación,
cepa, tensión, torcedura
straits: necesidad, paso, estrecho,
estrecheces
strange: extraño, raro, ajeno
strangely: extrañamente
strangle: estrangular, estranguláis,
estrangulen, estrangulamos,
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estrangulan, estrangulo, estrangula,
estrangulas, estrangulad, estrangule
straps: abrazaderas, cintas
stream: arroyo, corriente, flujo,
chorro, riachuelo, secuencia
streaming: flujo, difusión de video
digital en tiempo real, efecto de
canalización, correr, transferencia de
datos desde el disco duro
streets: calles, las calles
strength: fuerza, resistencia, virtud,
potencia, fortaleza
stress: tensión, estrés, acento,
esfuerzo, acentuar, presión, recalcar,
el estrés, la presión
stretch: estiramiento, estirar,
extender, tramo
strew: esparcir, esparzan, esparza,
esparcís, esparcimos, esparcid,
esparces, esparcen, esparzo, esparce
stride: paso, paso largo, zancada
strike: huelga, golpear, llamar,
declararse en huelga, acertar, paro,
golpe
strikes: golpea
strip: tira, raya, faja, desnudarse,
franja, desmontar, banda
stripped: pelado, desarmado,
desencofrado
strolled: paseó
strong: fuerte, intenso, marcado
stubborn: terco, testarudo, obstinado
subconscious: subconsciente
subject: asunto, tema, asignatura,
someter, sujeto, cuestión, materia
submerged: sumergido
substance: sustancia, substancia
subtle: sutil
subtlety: sutileza
succour: prestar ayuda, socorrer,
asistir, acudir, socorro
suck: chupar, mamar, libar, chupas
sucking-pig: cochinillo
suddenly: de repente, de golpe,
repentinamente, de sopetón
suffer: sufrir, sufres, sufro, sufrís,
sufrid, sufren, sufre, sufran,
sufrimos, sufra, padecer
sufferer: doliente, enfermo, paciente,
víctima
suffering: sufriendo, padeciendo,
sufrimiento
sufficiently: suficientemente,
bastante
suggest: sugerir, sugerid, sugiero,
sugieres, sugieren, sugiere, sugieran,
sugerís, sugerimos, sugiera, indicar
suit: traje, convenir, el traje, pleito
sullen: malhumorado, triste
summon: llamar, notificar, convocar
summoned: convocado
supper: cena, la cena
Lysistrata
suppliant: suplicante
supplies: suministros
suppose: suponer, suponéis,
supongo, supon, suponed,
suponemos, suponen, supones,
supongan, supone, suponga
supremacy: supremacía
sure: seguro, cierto
surely: seguramente, ciertamente
surface: superficie
surgeon: cirujano, el cirujano
surpasses: aventaja, sobrepuja
surprise: sorprender, sorpresa, la
sorpresa
suspect: sospechar, dudar,
sospechoso
sustain: sostener, sosten, sostengan,
sostiene, sostenemos, sostenéis,
sostened, sostienes, sostienen,
sostengo, sostenga
swallows: traga
swarm: enjambre, pulular,
hormiguear
swear: jurar, jura, jurad, juráis,
juramos, juran, juras, juren, juro,
jure, maldecir
sweat: sudor, sudar, transpirar
sweep: barrer, barrido
sweeping: barrido
sweet: dulce, caramelo, postre
swinging: balanceo
swirl: remolino, torbellino,
arremolinarse
swollen: hinchado
swooning: desmayándose
swooped: Abatió
sword: espada
sworn: jurado
symbol: símbolo
symbolise: simbolice
sympathetic: simpático, compasivo
sympathy: simpatía
symphony: sinfonía
tackle: equipo, parafernalia, aparejo,
provisiones
tact: tacto, diplomacia, tino
takes: toma, desempeña
tale: cuento
talented: talentoso, dotado
talk: hablar, hablas, hablan, hablad,
habláis, hablamos, hablo, hable,
hablen, habla, charla
talking: hablando, parlante,
charlando, hablar
talks: habla, charla
tall: alto
tamed: domado
tangle: enredo, caos
tangled: enredado
tapped: utilizado
task: tarea, quehacer, trabajo
taste: gusto, saborear, sabor, probar,
catar
tasteless: insípido, sin gusto, soso
tattling: divulgar
taught: enseñado, instruido,
desacostumbrado
tavern: taberna
taxed: Tasado, gravado
tear: lágrima, desgarrar, rajar,
romper, rasgar, desgarro
tearful: lloroso, lacrimoso
tears: desgarra, rasga
tease: fastidiar, molestar, embromar,
importunar
teeth: dientes, dentadura
temperate: templado, moderado
temple: templo, sien, el templo
tempting: tentando, tentador
tended: cuidado, Tendido
tender: tierno, oferta, dulce, subasta,
proposición, ofrecer, destajo,
licitación, presentar, reproducir,
retratar
tenderly: con ternura, tiernamente,
endeblemente, delicado
tendrils: zarcillos
tension: tensión, voltaje, afán
tenth: décimo
term: término, plazo, duración,
termino
terms: condiciones, condición
terraces: gradas, graderío
terrible: terrible
terrified: aterrorizado, aterrado
texture: textura
thank: agradecer, agradezco,
agradeces, agradezcan, agradece,
agradezca, agradecemos, agradeced,
agradecen, agradecéis, dar gracias
thanks: gracias, agradece
theban: tebaico
thee: ustedes, te, vosotros, usted, tú
theirs: suyo, sus
there'll: habrá
thick: grueso, espeso, gordo, denso
thighs: muslos
thine: tuyo, tuyos, tuyas, tuya, tus
thirst: sed, la sed
thither: allá
thou: tú, usted, vosotros, ustedes, vos
thousand: mil
threads: hilos
threat: amenaza, conminación, amago
threatening: amenazando,
amenazador, conminando,
amenazante
threatens: amenaza, conmina
throbbing: palpitante
throes: agonía, ansias, angustia
throwing: lanzamiento
thrown: tirado, pp de throw
thumb: pulgar, el pulgar, dedo
pulgar
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thundering: estruendo, trueno, de tremble: temblar, temblor
trueno, tronar, tremendo, tremendous: tremendo
imponente, enorme trickery: engaño
thy: tu tricks: engaños
tickler: libro de vencimientos, tricky: tramposo, trapacero,
vademécum engorroso, espinoso, intrincado,
ticklish: cosquilloso marrullero, difícil, delicado,
tides: mareas complicado, astuto, artero
tie: corbata, atar, liar, lazo, ligar, trifle: bagatela, friolera, nadería
cinta, tirante, ligadura, atadura trim: en buen estado, recortar,
tied: atado adornar, guarnecer
tightly: apretadamente, trinity: Trinidad
herméticamente tripping: desconexión
tightness: tensión, tirantez, escasez, trireme: trirreme
estrechez, impermeabilidad, triumph: triunfo
tacañería, hermeticidad, lo estanco, trivial: trivial
premiosidad, opresión, lo hermético troop: tropa
till: caja, hasta que, hasta, a que troubled: molestar, de enfermedad,
tipsy: achispado agitado, problema, desventurado,
to-day: hoy apurado, molestarse, dificultad, no
toe: dedo del pie, dedo de pie, el sabroso, pasado difícilmente, pena
dedo del pie troubles: nubes
toilets: servicios, aseos, inodoros truce: tregua
toll: peaje, tañer true: verdadero, cierto
tongue: lengua, la lengua, lengüeta truly: verdaderamente, de veras, en
tongues: lenguas realidad, en efecto, realmente
tonight: esta noche trying: molesto
top: cima, superficie, parte superior, tumbled: Derribado
superior, cumbre tunic: túnica
topmost: más alto turbot: rodaballo
torch: antorcha, linterna, soplete turn: girar, gira, giro, giráis, giramos,
torches: antorchas giran, giras, gire, giren, girad, vuelta
torment: tormento turned: girado, vuelto, trastornado
tormented: atormentado tut: eso no, vamos, pche, hacer un
toss: arrojar, tirada gesto de desaprobación, gesto de
touch: tocar, toque, tacto, palpar, desaprobación, qué horror, Vaya
contacto, rozar twin: gemelo, gemelos
touches: alcanza, toca, conmueve, twined: trenzó
palpa twisted: retorcido, torcido
touching: conmovedor tyranny: tiranía
town: ciudad, pueblo, población, el ultimately: finalmente, por fin, al fin,
pueblo ultimadamente
trace: rastro, calcar, impresión, trazar, unassuming: sin pretensiones,
amojonar, traza, línea, señal, huella, inasumido, modesto, no pretencioso,
barrido sin presunción
tract: tracto undergrowth: maleza
tradition: tradición understand: entender, entiendes,
tragic: trágico entienda, entiendan, entendemos,
trailing: estela, rastrear, rastreo, entendéis, entended, entienden,
rastro, seguir, seguir la pista de, entiendo, entiende, comprender
sendero, vereda, arrastrar, pista, understood: entendido, comprendido
huella undervalue: infravalorar, infravalore,
trains: trenes subestimar, infravaloramos,
traitors: traidores infravaloren, infravaloran,
trample: pisotear infravaloráis, infravalorad,
travelling: corredizo, de viaje, infravalora, infravaloro, infravaloras
ambulante, el viajar, itinerante, undying: eterno, imperecedero
viajar, viajes unerringly: infaliblemente,
treasure: tesoro, atesorar certeramente
treasury: tesorería, erario unforeseen: imprevisto
treat: tratar, curar, obsequio unfortunate: desgraciado,
treaty: tratado infortunado
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unified: unificado
union: unión, sindicato
uniqueness: unicidad
united: reunido, unido
unity: unidad, armonía
universal: universal
unless: a menos que, a no ser que
unlike: desemejante
unmannerly: mal educado
unpack: desembalar, desembale,
desempaquetar, desembalen,
desembalas, desembalan,
desembalamos, desembaláis,
desembalad, desembala, desembalo
unplumbed: insondable
unseen: no visto
unswerving: firme
untamed: indomado
untangle: desenredar, desenmarañe,
desenredáis, desenredo, desenreden,
desenrede, desenredas,
desenredamos, desenredad,
desenreda, desenredan
unto: hacia
unwind: devanar, devanan, devano,
devanen, devanas, devanamos,
devanáis, devanad, devana, devane
uphill: cuesta arriba
upright: vertical, montante, derecho
uprightness: nobleza, verticalidad
upset: trastornar, indispuesta,
trastorno
upside-down: al revés
urge: incitar, espolear, impulso,
impulsar, animar, instar
urn: urna
usual: común, general, universal,
acostumbrado, habitual
utterly: absolutamente
vain: vano, hueco, vanidoso
valid: válido, vigente
valorous: valeroso
value: valor, valorar, estimar, tasar,
apreciar
values: valores
various: varios, varias, diferente
vast: vasto
veil: velo
vein: vena, veta, filón
vendors: proveedores
vengeance: venganza
venture: arriesgar, ventura,
aventurarse, aventurar, empresa
veritable: verdadero
verminous: verminoso
vessels: embarcaciones
vexed: enfadado
victim: víctima
victory: victoria
vigorous: vigoroso
vile: vil
villainous: villano
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vindication: reivindicación
violent: violento
virginity: virginidad
virtue: virtud
vision: visión
visit: visitar, visita, visitad, visiten,
visitan, visitas, visito, visitamos,
visitáis, visite
vitality: vitalidad
vitalizing: vitalizar, vitalizando,
vivificando
vitally: sumamente, vitalmente,
esencialmente
vitiated: viciado
void: vacío, nulo, anular, vaciar,
caducado, hueco
vote: votar, voto, balotar, votación
vulgar: chabacano, cursi, grosero,
cutre, corriente, vulgo, vulgar,
ramplón, ordinario, ordinaria,
común
wag: menear, meneo, mover
wager: apuesta, apostar, la apuesta
wailing: lamentos
waist: cintura, la cintura, talle
wait: esperar, espera, espere, esperad,
espero, esperen, esperas, esperan,
esperamos, esperáis, aguardar
wake: estela, despertar
walk: andar, andamos, ando, anden,
ande, andas, andáis, andad, anda,
andan, caminar
wandering: errante, vagando
wanton: petulante, lascivo
wantoning: Jugetear
wants: quiere, desea
warlike: belicoso
warm: caliente, caluroso, calentar,
cálido
warmth: calor moderado, calor
warping: deformación, alabeo
warring: belicoso
warrior: guerrero
wash: lavar, lave, lavo, lava, lavad,
laváis, lavamos, lavas, laven, lavan,
lavarse
washed: lavado, lavo
wasps: avispas
waste: desechos, desperdicio,
residuo, residuos, detrito, gastar,
acabar, desperdicios, derrochar,
gasto, desecho
wasted: gastado, acabado
wasting: acabando, gastando
watch: reloj, mirar, observar, reloj de
pulsera, ver, contemplar, el reloj,
prestar atención, vigilar, guardia,
guardar
watchful: vigilante, en vela
ways: maneras
weak: débil, flojo
wear: llevar, desgaste, usar, tener
Lysistrata
puesto, vestir, uso, llevar puesto
weariness: cansancio, aburrimiento,
fatiga
wears: lleva, usa
weary: cansado, fatigado
weathercock: a veleta, giraldilla,
veleta
web: telaraña, red, tejido tela telaraña
enredo red trama
we'd: hacemos
weep: llorar, llore, lloren, llora, lloro,
lloras, lloran, lloramos, lloráis,
llorad
weighing: pesando, peso, pesaje,
pesar
weight: peso, carga, el peso, asignar
un peso a, la pesa, pesa
weighty: pesado, importante, grave,
ponderoso, de mucho peso
weird: raro, misterioso, extraño
welded: soldado
we'll: Haremos
welling: asciende
welter: tomar un baño, confusión,
bañarse, maremágnum, mezcla
confusa, mezcolanza, revolcarse por,
revoltijo, agitación
wench: muchacha
wept: Llorado
whatever: cualquier, lo que, cualquier
cosa
whereas: considerando que, por
cuanto
whet: afilar, afile, afilen, afilas, afilan,
afiláis, afilad, afila, afilo, afilamos
whim: capricho, antojo
whisper: cuchichear, cuchicheo,
susurrar, susurro, murmurar
whizz: silbar, rehilar, silbido, zumbar
a, zumbido, fenómeno
whoever: quien
wholly: enteramente
whom: quien, quién, que
whose: cuyo, cuya
wicked: malo, malvado
wide: ancho, amplio, vasto, lejos
wife: esposa, mujer, la esposa
wild: fiero, salvaje, silvestre
wilderness: desierto
wildly: ferozmente
willing: dispuesto, deseoso
willy-nilly: al azar, de buena o de
mala gana
win: ganar, ganas, gana, gano, ganad,
ganen, gane, ganan, ganamos,
ganáis, vencer
wind: viento, serpentear, el viento,
enrollar, devanar
winding: devanado, arrollamiento,
bobinado
wine: vino, el vino
wings: bastidores, alas
wink: guiño, pestañeo, parpadeo,
guiñar
wipe: limpiar, enjugar, limpien,
limpiad, limpiáis, limpiamos,
limpian, limpias, limpie, limpio,
limpia
wiped: limpiado, Enjugado
wisdom: sabiduría, sapiencia
wise: sabio, sensato, guisa
wish: desear, deseo, voluntad,
querer, tener, gana
wished: deseado
wishes: anhelar, anhelo, ansiar,
desear, deseo, deseos, querer, votos
wit: ingenio
wither: marchitarse, marchitar,
marchite, marchito, marchitas,
marchiten, marchitan, marchita,
marchitáis, marchitamos, marchitad
withered: marchito, marchitado
witless: bobo, estúpido, tonto, necio
witty: ingenioso
woe: ay, penas
woes: dolencia
womankind: las mujeres
wonder: preguntarse, maravilla,
asombrarse, prodigio, preguntar
wonderful: maravilloso
wood: madera, leño, bosque, la
madera
woodlands: tierras arboladas, suelos
arbolados, regiones forestadas,
boscaje
wool: lana, la lana
woolly: lanoso
word: palabra, la palabra, vocablo,
término, formular
wore: falacia, pret de wear, Llevó
works: fábrica, obras
worn: gastado, usado
worried: preocupado, angustiado,
inquieto
worry: preocuparse, cuidar,
preocupación, inquietar, inquietud,
preocupar, molestar
worrying: inquietante, molesto,
preocupar
worst: peor
worth: valor
wove: Tejió, pret de weave
woven: tejido
wrack: explorar, sargazo, ruina de,
fluco, estante, despojo, alga de
arribada, fuco, exploráis, exploren,
explore
wrang: retorció
wrangle: disputa, disputar, reñir
wreath: guirnalda, corona
wreathed: ceñido, envuelto,
enguirnaldado, trenzado, enroscado
wretch: desgraciado
wretched: miserable, menesteroso,
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pobre, infeliz, necesitado,
desdichado
wretchedly: abyectamente,
miserablemente,
endemoniadamente,
despreciablemente
wringing: arrancando, retorciendo
wrinkled: arrugado
wrinkling: formación de pliegues,
fruncir, arrugar, arrugamiento,
arrugación, arruga
write: escribir, escriba, escriban,
escribo, escribís, escribimos,
escribid, escribes, escribe, escriben
writing: escribiendo, escritura, letra,
inscripción
written: escrito
wrong: malo, mal, falso, incorrecto,
entuerto, agravio, impropio, erróneo
wrote: escribió
wrought: forjado
wrung: arrancado, Retorcido
yarn: hilo, estambre
ye: usted, vosotros, ustedes, vosotras,
tú, los, lo, las, la, el, vos
yell: grito, gritar, aullar, chillar
yelling: grito, gritos, gritar, gritante,
dar alaridos, aullido, aullar, alarido
yellow: amarillo
yesterday: ayer
yield: ceder, cedemos, cedes, cedo,
ceden, cedéis, ceded, cede, ceda,
cedan, rendimiento
yonder: allí, ahí, aquel
younger: menor
youngster: joven, jovencito,
jovenzuelo
yours: vuestro, suyo, el tuyo
yourself: tú mismo, se
yourselves: ustedes mismos
youth: juventud, joven, jóvenes,
adolescencia
youthfully: frescamente, jovenmente,
juvenilmente
zeal: celo, ahínco