Chorus: Now you must indeed rouse a dense and philosophical mind.
Chorus: knowing care
Chorus: to defend the friends.
Chorus: for a new one has come to good fortunes.
Chorus: A thought of the tongue comes to the citizen
Chorus: delighting the people
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Chorus: with countless benefits of life; but the timing shows what you are able to do.
Chorus: For our city needs some clever invention.
Chorus: but only finish it.
Chorus: neither things done nor things spoken before now;
Chorus: for they hate the old things whenever they see them often.
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Ecclesiazusae. Aristophanes. . 2026-09-08.