Pheidippides: You are wrong, Philon; run your own race.
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Strepsiades: this is the very evil that has destroyed me;
Strepsiades: for he even dreams while he is asleep of horsemanship.
Pheidippides: How many races will the armor run?
Strepsiades: You are driving me on many a run as if I were his father.
Strepsiades: But why did you put me under the obligation after Pasias?
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Strepsiades: three minas of brine and a cart to Amyntas.
Pheidippides: Take the horse away, having washed it, to home.
Strepsiades: But, oh, you who have been with me for three years, you have driven me out of my own [house].
Strepsiades: When I have incurred lawsuits and others' interest as well.
Strepsiades: They say it must be mortgaged.
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Pheidippides: Truly, father!
Pheidippides: Why do you make it difficult and spend the whole night turning over?
Strepsiades: A certain magistrate is biting me from the mattress.
Pheidippides: Let me, you madman, be beaten until I am dead.
Strepsiades: But you, then, go to sleep; but know this: these debts...
Strepsiades: It will turn all your head.
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Strepsiades: If only the matchmaker had miserably perished,
Strepsiades: She who took me and married your mother;
Strepsiades: for a rustic life was most pleasant to me.
Strepsiades: lying around, idle and untiring,
Strepsiades: May I be crushed by bees and sheep and vetches.
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Strepsiades: And then I married Megacles, son of Megacles.
Strepsiades: being a rustic from the city,
Strepsiades: 'A modest one, luxuriating, and adorned with a hood.'
Strepsiades: When I married her, I reclined with her.
Strepsiades: smelling of rich fleeces, a goat of abundance,
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Strepsiades: But again, the amount of saffron-scented ointment,
Strepsiades: expenses of the theft of the Koliadas' Genetyllis.
Strepsiades: By no means shall I say that he was idle, but rather that he was a fighter.
Strepsiades: But I, showing her this tunic,
Strepsiades: 'They said it was an excuse, woman, you are cutting it too fine.'
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