Hermes !Invoked as the god of orators.
what a fine introduction you have
made, just like a professor of public speaking!
You intend, I am sure, to add that your conversation
was short, that you didn’t come prepared to speak,
and that it would be better to hear him tell it himself, for really you have only carried in mind what
little you could. Weren’t you going to say that?
Well, there is no longer any necessity for it on my
account ; consider your whole introduction finished
as far as I am concerned, for I am ready to cheer
and to clap. But if you keep shilly-shallying, I'll
bear you a grudge all through the speech and will
hiss right, sharply.