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taerus First give our city a great and famous name, then sacrifice to the gods. Euelpides I think so too. Leader of the Chorus Let's see. What shall our city be called? Pisthetaerus Will you have a high-sounding Laconian name? Shall we call it Sparta? Euelpides What! call my town Sparta? Why, I would not use esparto for my bed, even though I had nothing but bands of rushes. Pisthetaerus Well then, what name can you suggest? Euelpides Some name borrowed from the clouds, from these lofty reSparta? Why, I would not use esparto for my bed, even though I had nothing but bands of rushes. Pisthetaerus Well then, what name can you suggest? Euelpides Some name borrowed from the clouds, from these lofty regions in which we dwell —in short, some well-known name. Pisthetaerus Do you like Nephelococcygia? Leader of the Chorus Oh! capital! truly that's a brilliant thought! Euelpides Is it in Nephelococcygia that all the wealth of Theogenes and most of Aeschines' is? Pisthetaerus No, it's rather the plain of Phlegra, where the gods withered the pride of the sons of the Earth with their shafts. Leader of the Chorus Oh! what a splendid city! But what god shall be its patron? for whom shall we weave