Philocleon: Watch the money; how the accounts are being finished.
Philocleon: For he has heard that the Athenians once
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Philocleon: 'Let them try the lawsuits at the houses,'
Philokleon: And every man would build in the forecourts
Philocleon: a very small court for himself,
Philocleon: Just like Hecataeus, everywhere before the doors.
Bdelucleon: Look, what will you say now? As if I bear everything!
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Bdelucléon: 'Whatever they said, and even much more.'
Bdelyclēon: if you are not going to urinate, then here.
Bdelycleon: I will hang [it] near you on the handle of the shield.
Philocleon: This is clever and suitable even for an old man.
Philocleon: You have discovered, in truth, a cure for strangury.
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Bdelucleon: And that is fire, indeed; and lentils have stuck to it.
Bdelycléon: to suck, if it is necessary for something.
Philocleon: This again is a good omen;
Philocleon: And even if I have a fever, I will receive the fee, at least.
Philocleon: For, remaining right here, I shall drink up the lentil soup.
Philocleon: But why did you bring the bird out to me?
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Bdelukleon: so that, whenever you sleep while someone is defending himself,
Bdelycleon: Singing from above, this fellow here is waking you up.
Philocleon: I still long for one thing, but the rest please me.
Bdelucleon: What is it?
Philocleon: If you can somehow smuggle out the wolf's den.
Bdelycleon: This is present, and this man himself is the master.
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Philocleon: Oh master, hero, how hard you were to look at.
Bdelycleon: The sort of person Cleonymus seems to us to be.
Philocleon: Surely even a hero does not have weapons.
Bdelycleon: if you were sitting down sooner, sooner you would have received a penalty.
Bdelycleon: 'We were calling.'
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Philocleon: Call him now, as I have been sitting here for a long time.
Wasps. Aristophanes. . 2026-09-08.