Well and good! but they'll never get another drachma here. MAGISTRATE What do you propose to do then, pray? LYSISTRATA You ask me that! Why, we propose to administer the treasury ourselves. MAGISTRATE You do? LYSISTRATA What is there in that to surprise you? Do we not administer the budget of household expenses? MAGISTRATE But that is not the same thing. LYSISTRATA How so-not the same thing? MAGISTRATE It is the treasury supplies the expenses of the war. LYSISTRATA That's our first principle-no war! MAGISTRATE What! and the safety of the city?
