Woman: Don't, then, [hit me] on the head.
Carion: 'Don't touch the good things!'
Charon: What has just happened?
Woman: Then, for heaven's sake, about the business.
Carion: for as quickly as we arrived at the god's
Carion: 'Leading a man, at that time the most wretched.'
Carion: Now if any other blessed and fortunate person,
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Carion: first of all we led him to the sea,
Carion: Then let's buy it.
Woman: By Zeus, she was indeed fortunate.
Woman: An old man being washed in the cold sea.
Carion: Then let us go to the sanctuary of the god.
Carion: for when a barley-cake and first-fruit offerings [are placed] on the altar
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Charon: a pot of Hephaestus has been purified with fire,
Charon: We have reclined Wealth, as was proper;
Carion: and each of us pushed a couch in front of him.
Woman: Were there others besides also asking the god?
Carion: one, at least, is Neocleides, who is indeed blind,
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Carion: but he has mocked the seeing ones by stealing.
Chario: and many others [suffering] from all sorts of diseases.
Charon: holding them; but when I had extinguished the lamps
Carion: He ordered us to sleep because of the god.
Carion: the servant, having said, 'if anyone hears a noise'
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Carion: Be quiet; we were all lying down in an orderly manner.
Carion: Nor could I sleep, but I
Carion: A certain earthenware pot was lying there, unscathed.
Carion: a little bit away from the head of the old woman,
Charon: on which I wished terribly to creep.
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Carion: Then, looking up, I see the priest.
Carion: snatching the figs and the chickpeas.
Carion: from the sacred table; after this, then
Carion: He has gone around all the altars in a circle,
Carion: if perhaps there is any bread left over;
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Carion: After that, he carried these things into a certain bag.
Charon: And I, thinking that the matter is very holy
Charon: I rise up to the pot of the broth.
Woman: Didn't you fear that god, who takes men's talents?
Carion: By the gods, I hope that it will not anticipate me.
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Charon: having come to the pot, holding the garlands;
Carion: For his priest taught me beforehand.
Charon: 'But as soon as the old woman heard my noise,'
Carion: Hurry up and take it away; then, whistling, I
Carion: I was bitten like a viper, having been in my senses.
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Carion: but she immediately drew back her hand again,
Carion: She lay wrapped up quietly.
Carion: she urinates more sharply than a weasel from fear.
Carion: And at that time I was already eating a large amount of the cheese.
Carion: And then, since it was full, I shook it.
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