Bdelycleon: I am now writing this a second time, the shackle of wealth;
Bdelycleon: And while claiming to rule Greece, do not forget the good things that you have.
Philocleon: So, when boys are being examined, one can see their private parts.
Philocleon: Even if Oiaxros enters while fleeing, he does not escape until he does so to us.
Philocleon: having selected the most beautiful speech from the Niobe, he spoke.
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Philocleon: Even if a flute-player wins the lawsuit, this is our handhold.
Philocleon: I sounded the bugle for the judges to go out as they were leaving.
Philocleon: And may my father, even while dying, give him a legacy, leaving behind an heiress.
Philocleon: to weep for a long time, having said the will.
Philocleon: and with the shell, the very solemn one, which is inlaid with the markings,
585
Philocleon: Let us eat, whoever shall come and persuade us.
Philocleon: And we do these things without liability, but of the others there is no beginning.
Bdelucléon: for this is a noble thing, for these things which you have said, I count you blessed;
Bdelucléon: You are violating the will of the heiress by twisting it around.
Philocleon: Moreover, whenever the council and the people find themselves at a loss over a great matter to decide,
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Philocleon: it has been decreed to hand over those who commit injustice to the jurors;
Philocleon: And then Euaethlus and this great Colaconymus, the shield-thrower.
Philocleon: They say that he will not betray us, but that he will fight about the multitude.
Philocleon: and in the assembly no one has ever prevailed with their opinion, unless
Philocleon: Tell the jury to release them first, after they have judged one case;
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Philocleon: But Cleon himself, the one who only shouts at us, does not trim us.
Philocleon: but keep it in your hand and ward off the flies as well.
Philocleon: But you have never done any of these things to your father at all.
Philocleon: But Theorus, although he is the son of Euphemius, is no less [a man],
Philocleon: Having the sponge from the basin, he is wiping our tunic.
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Philocleon: consider me from the good things of which you barred me and shut me out,
Philocleon: You said you would show that it was slavery and service.
Bdelucléon: I will fill [it] by speaking; for certainly you will stop it at some time and make it appear.
Bdelyclēon: a rectum that comes to be the drain of the very venerable office.
