CALONICÉ. _I will live at home in perfect chastity...._ LYSISTRATA. _Beautifully dressed and wearing a saffron-coloured gown...._ CALONICÉ. _Beautifully dressed and wearing a saffron-coloured gown...._ LYSISTRATA. _To the end I may inspire my husband with the most ardent longings._ CALONICÉ. _To the end I may inspire my husband with the most ardent longings._ LYSISTRATA. _Never will I give myself voluntarily...._ CALONICÉ. _Never will I give myself voluntarily...._ LYSISTRATA. _And if he has me by force...._ CALONICÉ. _And if he has me by force...._ LYSISTRATA. _I will be cold as ice, and never stir a limb...._ CALONICÉ. _I will be cold as ice, and never stir a limb...._ LYSISTRATA. _I will not lift my legs in air...._ CALONICÉ. _I will not lift my legs in air...._ LYSISTRATA. _Nor will I crouch with bottom upraised, like carven lions on a knife-handle_. CALONICÉ. _Nor will I crouch with bottom upraised, like carven lions on a knife-handle_. LYSISTRATA. _An if I keep my oath, may I be suffered to drink of this wine._ CALONICÉ. _An if I keep my oath, may I be suffered to drink of this wine_. LYSISTRATA. _But if I break it, let my bowl be filled with water_. CALONICÉ. _But if I break it, let my bowl be filled with water_. LYSISTRATA. Will ye all take this oath? MYRRHINÉ. Yes, yes! LYSISTRATA. Then lo! I immolate the victim. (_She drinks._) CALONICÉ. Enough, enough, my dear; now let us all drink in turn to cement our friendship. LAMPITO. Hark! what do those cries mean? LYSISTRATA. 'Tis what I was telling you; the women have just occupied the Acropolis. So now, Lampito, do you return to Sparta to organize the plot, while your comrades here remain as hostages. For ourselves, let us away to join the rest in the citadel, and let us push the bolts well home. CALONICÉ. But don't you think the men will march up against us? LYSISTRATA. I laugh at them. Neither threats nor flames shall force our doors; they shall open only on the conditions I have named. CALONICÉ. Yes, yes, by the goddess of love! let us keep up our old-time repute for obstinacy and spite.