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Chorus
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Oh! happy day for us [975] and for our children if Cleon perish. Yet just now [980] I heard some old cross-grained pleaders on the market-place who hold not this opinion discoursing together. Said they, “If Cleon had not had the power, we should have lacked two most useful tools, the pestle and the soup-ladle.”
Aristophanes. Knights. The Complete Greek Drama, vol. 2. Eugene O'Neill, Jr. New York. Random House. 1938.
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