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Such is my first wish. I also hope for him a misfortune at night. That returning all-fevered from horse practice, he may meet an Orestes,¹ mad with drink, who breaks open his head; that wishing to seize a stone, he, in the dark, may pick up a fresh stool, hurl his missile, miss aim and hit Cratinus.²

1 An allusion to the paroxysms of rage, as represented in many tragedies familiar to an Athenian audience, of Orestes, the son of Agamemnon, after he had killed his mother.

2 No doubt the comic poet, rival of Aristophanes.

Aristophanes. Acharnians. The Eleven Comedies. Anonymous. New York. Liveright. 192?.

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