Blepyrus: 'And no thief will be there either?'
Praxagora: For how will she steal it from him?
Blepyrus: So they won't even strip off at night?
Praxagora: You were not at home, were you, sleeping?
Praxagora: Nor are there doors, as before; for life will be common to all.
Praxagora: If he takes it off, he himself will give it. For what reason would he have to fight?
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Praxagora: for someone else, going from the common stock, will bring back something better than that.
Blepyrus: Will humans not even roll dice, then?
Praxagora: For about this, what will he do?
Blepyrus: What sort of regimen will you make?
Praxagora: common to all. For the city
Praxagora: I say that I will make a single dwelling by joining all things together into one,
Praxagora: so that [they] walk as [they do] one another.
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Blepyrus: But where will you set out the dinner?
Praxagora: I will make the lawcourts and the porticoes entirely into men's quarters.
Blepyrus: But what use will the platform be to you?
Praxagora: I will put away the mixing-bowls.
Praxagora: And the water-jars, and there will be [someone] to sing rhapsodies for the little children.
Praxagora: those who were brave in the war, and even if someone has become a coward,
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Praxagora: so that, while eating dinner, they might not feel ashamed.
Blepyrus: By Apollo, quite charming.
Blepyrus: But where will you cast the lots?
Praxagora: I will deposit it in the marketplace.
Praxagora: And then, having stationed [her] beside Harmodius, I will allot [votes] to all, until...
Praxagora: Let the one who drew lots go away happy, to dine in whatever letter.
Praxagora: and let him announce that those coming from the bema should follow to the stoa.
Praxagora: to dine royally; but the hirelings to the house next to hers,
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Praxagora: But let the barley-seller go from the inn to the stoa.
Blepyrus: "In order that they may swallow?"
Praxagora: By Zeus, but so that they may dine there.
Blepyrus: But whoever [has] the letter
Blepyrus: lest they be dragged out during the dinner, let everyone dismiss them.
Praxagora: But this will not happen among us.
Praxagora: For we will provide everything abundantly to everyone,
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Praxagora: so that, having become drunk with that garland,
Praxagora: Let each man go out, having taken the torch.
Praxagora: but the women according to the exits
Praxagora: falling at the feet of those from the dinner
Praxagora: These things they will say: 'Come to us.'
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Praxagora: Here is a lovely young girl.
Praxagora: But there is another [way] with me.
Praxagora: Someone will say from above from the upper room,
Praxagora: "And most beautiful and most white."
Praxagora: But first you must go to sleep.
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Praxagora: With her at my place.
Praxagora: and following those who are handsome,
Praxagora: and the most worthless [men] to the young men
Praxagora: They will say such things as this: 'Where is this man going?'
Praxagora: Certainly you will do nothing upon coming.
Praxagora: For to the flat-nosed and the ugly
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Praxagora: The people have voted that they drink first,
Praxagora: But you, for the time being, having taken three seats,
Praxagora: of a two-wheeled fig cart
Praxagora: to be cut in the forecourt.
Praxagora: Come now, tell me, does this please you both?
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