Euripides

Well, to ponder such things, I

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instructed these folks here,

putting logic in my art

and scrutiny, so now they notice

everything and know through and through

most especially how to run

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the household better than before,

and they inquire, “How's this doing?

Where's this? Who took that?”

Dionysus

Yes, by gods! In fact, now

every single Athenian goes inside

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and yells to his servants

and asks, “Where's my pot?

Who's eaten off the head

of my sardine; My bowl

of yesteryear—has it perished?

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Where is yesterday's garlic?

Who nibbled at the olive?”

Before now the biggest dummies

gaping mamma's boys

would just sit like blockheads.

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