Student: Go to the crows! Who cut the door?
Strepsiades: Strepsiades, son of Phaedon, from Cynna.
Student: A fool indeed, by Zeus, whoever acts so excessively.
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Student: You have kicked the door in an unthinking manner.
Student: And you have made cleverly devised worries useless.
Strepsiades: Forgive me, for I live far from the fields.
Strepsiades: But tell me the affair that has been smashed.
Student: But it is not right to speak except to the students.
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Strepsiades: speak now to me with confidence, for I am this one
Strepsiades: I have come as a student to the thinkery.
Student: I will speak. But these must be thought of as mysteries.
Student: Fetch Socrates just now, Chaerephon!
Student: How many fleas would jump on her feet;
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Student: for a wasp bit the eyebrow of Chaerephon.
Student: He has scratched the head of Socrates.
Strepsiades: How then did he measure it out?
Student: melting the wax, then taking the flea
Student: He dipped her two feet into the wax,
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Student: And then the Persian ones grew cold.
Student: having untied these, he measured the plot of land.
Strepsiades: O king of the subtlety of my mind.
Student: But what else would you learn, if you asked Socrates?
Student: What is the tuition?
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Strepsiades: Which one? I beg you, tell me.
Student: Lift him up, Chaerephon of Sphettus.
Student: whichever opinion he has, the ear-rings
Student: 'Should he sing through the mouth or through the anus.'
Strepsiades: But what did that man say about the bedbug?
Student: He said he was the opposite of the pincers.
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Student: It is narrow; for although it is thin, the breath
Student: I am walking straight by force of the buttocks;
Student: Then, a hollow [part] attached to a narrow [part].
Student: The anus makes a noise from the force of the wind.
Strepsiades: Then the anus is the trumpet of the wasps.
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Strepsiades: O thrice-happy one of the dung-heap.
Strepsiades: Surely, if he were escaping, he would have escaped punishment.
Strepsiades: Whoever is digging the opposite side of the pit.
Student: for indeed a great opinion was taken away from him.
Student: From a snail.
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Strepsiades: In what way? Tell me.
Student: when he was seeking the paths of the moon.
Student: and the revolutions, then, of one gaping upwards
Student: At night a catamount fell from the ceiling.
Strepsiades: I rejoiced when Socrates drenched me with a bucket.
Student: Yesterday, however, we did not have dinner in the evening.
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Strepsiades: Very well; so what did he do with regard to the barley-cakes?
Student: having spread fine ash over the table
Student: having bent a spit and then taking a divider,
Student: He stole a cloak from the wrestling school.
