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Chorus
Never have I heard speech so elegant or so sensible. Philocleon
Ah! he thought he had only to turn me round his finger; [635] he should, however have known the vigour of my eloquence. Chorus
He has said everything without omission. I felt myself grow taller while I listened to him. [640] Methought myself meting out justice in the Islands of the Blest, so much was I taken with the charm of his words. Philocleon
How he does gape and is beside himself! Bdelycleon
Ah! I'll make you look as if you were about to be whipped today. Chorus
Come, plot everything [645] you can to beat him; 'tis not easy to soften me if you do not talk on my side.
Aristophanes. Wasps. The Complete Greek Drama, vol. 2. Eugene O'Neill, Jr. New York. Random House. 1938.
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