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CHORUS
Curse old age! When I was young, in the days when I followed Phayllus,¹ running with a sack of coals on my back, this wretch would not have eluded my pursuit, let him be as swift as he will;

1 A celebrated athlete from Croton and a victor at Olympia; he was equally good as a runner and at the ‘five exercises.’

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

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