Young woman: Sing whatever you like and look over your shoulder like a weasel;
Young Woman: For no one will deceive you before me instead of me.
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Old Woman A: Not then, for a funeral, at least.
Young Man: That is something new, you scoundrel.
Old Woman A: By no means.
Young Woman: For what new thing would anyone say to an old woman?
Old Woman A: 'Will not old age hurt you, my own?'
Young Woman: But what?
Young Woman: I have been here longer, and also your whitewash?
Old Woman A: What is she arguing with me about?
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Young Woman: And what are you peeping at?
Old Woman A: Me?
Old Woman A: I sing to myself, to Epigenes, my dear friend.
Young Man: For who is a friend of yours besides Geras?
She will show it to you as well. For she will soon be as [fond] of me.
Young Woman: for here he himself is.
Old Woman A: You did not perish, you wretch.
Old Woman A: I need nothing.
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Young woman: By Zeus, oh withering one, you
Young Man: He will show it soon enough, as I am leaving.
Old Woman A: And I, too, so that you may know that I think much more highly of you.
Young Man: If only it were permitted to sleep beside the young woman,
Young Man: and let him not be ashamed to be rubbed down first.
Young man: a younger woman or an older one?
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Young Man: for this is not endurable for a free man.
Old Woman A: You will certainly be weeping, by Zeus!
Old Woman A: For these things are not Charixena's.
Old Woman A: to do these things according to the law.
Old Woman A: It is just, if we are ruled by the people.
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OLD WOMAN A: But I will go to keep watch on whatever they will do someday.
Young man: If only the gods would take the beautiful woman alone,
Young Man: I am coming towards her, towards whom I have long been drinking and longing.
Young Woman: I deceived that cursed old woman;
Young Woman: For she is mistaken, thinking that I remain inside.
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Young Man: But this man is the very one we remember.
Ecclesiazusae. Aristophanes. . 2026-09-08.