Chorus: for it is likely that a man like Thucydides, who is hunchbacked,
Chorus: to be utterly destroyed, entangled with the wilderness of the Scythians,
Chorus: To this babbling, talkative citizen of the Cephisus-deme?
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Chorus: So, I, for my part, pitied him and wiped my tears, seeing it.
Chorus: an old man being encircled by a man with a bow,
Chorus: He, by Demeter, that man, whenever he was Thucydides,
Chorus: nor would he have easily endured even Achaea herself,
Chorus: But first, indeed, he wrestled with Euaethlus ten times,
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Chorus: he would have shouted out three thousand archers, having cried out,
Chorus: he would have shot him with arrows right there, that father's relatives.
Chorus: but since you do not allow the old men to get some sleep,
Chorus: Vote to be separate the indictments, so that it may be.
Chorus: for the old man there is an old and mute advocate,
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Chorus: to the young men, moreover, is broad-rumped and talkative, and Cleinius as well.
Chorus: And now we must drive [him] out, and even if someone flees, [we must] fine him.
Chorus: the old man for the old man, but the young man for the young man.
Acharnians. Aristophanes. . 2026-09-08.