Philocleon: Do you do these things to me? Alas, what are you saying? You are agitating my soul so much,
Philocleon: And you are bringing my mind to attention, rather, and you do not know what you are making me do.
Bdelycleon: consider, then, how it is possible for you to become rich and for everyone else as well.
Bdelucleon: I do not know under what circumstances you have been enrolled among those who always stir up strife,
Bdelucleon: whoever is a ruler of the most cities from the Pontus as far as Sardis.
700
Bdelucleon: You enjoy nothing except this, which you bring barren; and this, too, for wool, you have.
Bdelycleon: They drip a little at a time, always for the sake of living, just like oil.
Bdelucleon: for they want you to be poor; and this is the reason why I will speak to you,
Bdelycleon: so that you may know the tamer, and then whenever he bites you.
Bdelycleon: having leaped upon some enemy, you jump savagely at them.
705
Bdelycleon: for if they had wanted to provide a livelihood for the people, it would have been easy.
Bdelycleon: Indeed, there are a thousand cities that now carry tribute to us;
Bdelucleon: 'If anyone ordered each one of these to feed twenty men,'
Bdelucleon: Twenty thousand of the common people would have lived on hares in every way.
Bdelycleon: both with garlands of all kinds and with a firebrand,
710
Bdelycleon: enjoying things worthy of the earth and the trophy at Marathon.
Bdelycleon: Now then, march off like flute-players at the same time as the one who has the pay.
Philocleon: Alas! What have I suffered? How the numbness is pouring over my hand,
Philocleon: and I am unable to hold the sword, but I am already soft.
Bdelycleon: But whenever they themselves vote, they give up Euboea.
715
Bdelycleon: They supply you with grain at the rate of fifty medimnoi.
Bdelycleon: to provide; but they have never given you anything except five medimnoi just yesterday,
Bdelucleon: And even these, barely fleeing the guest-friendship, you accepted by the choinix measure of barley.
