Chorus
Singing.
Let us go to the Assembly then, fellow-citizens;
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for the Thesmothetes have declared that only those who arrive at daybreak
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with haggard eye and covered with dust, without having snatched time to eat anything but a snack of garlic-pickle, shall alone receive the triobolus.
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Walk up smartly, Charitimides, Smicythus and Draces, and
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do not fail in any point of your part; let us first demand our fee and then vote for all that may perchance be useful for our partisans. . . Ah! what am I saying? I meant to say, for our fellow-citizens.
Let us go to the Assembly then, fellow-citizens;
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for the Thesmothetes have declared that only those who arrive at daybreak
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with haggard eye and covered with dust, without having snatched time to eat anything but a snack of garlic-pickle, shall alone receive the triobolus.
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Walk up smartly, Charitimides, Smicythus and Draces, and
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do not fail in any point of your part; let us first demand our fee and then vote for all that may perchance be useful for our partisans. . . Ah! what am I saying? I meant to say, for our fellow-citizens.
Ecclesiazusae. Aristophanes. ed. Eugene O'Neill, Jr.. New York. 1938.
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