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Enter Strepsiades with a meal-sack on his shoulder.
Enter Socrates.
Strepsiades.
The fifth, the fourth, the third, after this the second; and then, of all the days I most fear, and dread, and abominate, immediately after this there is the Old and New.
For every one to whom I happen to be indebted, swears, and says he will ruin and destroy me, having made his deposits against me; though I only ask what is moderate and just—
My good sir, one part don’t take just now; the other part put off I pray; and the other part remit; they say that thus
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they will never get back their money, but abuse me, as I am unjust, and say they will go to law with me. Now therefore let them go to law, for it little concerns me, if Phidippides has learned to speak well. I shall soon know by knocking at the thinking-shop.
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Knocks at the door.
Boy, I say! Boy, boy!
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Enter Socrates.
The fifth, the fourth, the third, after this the second; and then, of all the days I most fear, and dread, and abominate, immediately after this there is the Old and New.
For every one to whom I happen to be indebted, swears, and says he will ruin and destroy me, having made his deposits against me; though I only ask what is moderate and just—
My good sir, one part don’t take just now; the other part put off I pray; and the other part remit; they say that thus
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they will never get back their money, but abuse me, as I am unjust, and say they will go to law with me. Now therefore let them go to law, for it little concerns me, if Phidippides has learned to speak well. I shall soon know by knocking at the thinking-shop.
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Boy, I say! Boy, boy!
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Socrates.
Good morning, Strepsiades.
Good morning, Strepsiades.
Strepsiades.
The same to you. But first accept this present; for one ought to compliment the teacher with a fee. And tell me about my son, if he has learned that cause, which you just now brought forward.
The same to you. But first accept this present; for one ought to compliment the teacher with a fee. And tell me about my son, if he has learned that cause, which you just now brought forward.
Socrates.
He has learned it.
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He has learned it.
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Strepsiades.
Well done, O Fraud, all-powerful queen!
Well done, O Fraud, all-powerful queen!
Socrates.
So that you can get clear off from whatever suit you please.
So that you can get clear off from whatever suit you please.
Strepsiades.
Even if witnesses were present when I borrowed the money?
Even if witnesses were present when I borrowed the money?
Socrates.
Yea, much more! Even if a thousand be present.
Yea, much more! Even if a thousand be present.
Clouds. Aristophanes. William James Hickie (Translator). London. 1853.
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