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This then is why you have so
long taken such precautions; your
horoscope
gave you qualms of terror.
Aristophanes
Pour again.
NICIAS.
Is "pour again" in the oracle?
DEMOSTHENES.
Oh, Bacis!
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NICIAS.
But what is in it?
DEMOSTHENES.
Quick!
some drink!
NICIAS.
Bacis is very dry!
DEMOSTHENES.
Oh!
miserable Paphlagonian!
This then is why you have so
long taken such precautions; your
horoscope
gave you qualms of terror.
NICIAS.
What does it say?
DEMOSTHENES.
It says here how he must end.
NICIAS.
And how?
DEMOSTHENES.
How?
the oracle announces clearly that a dealer in oakum
must first govern the city.
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NICIAS.
First dealer.
And after him, who?
DEMOSTHENES.
After him, a sheep-dealer.
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NICIAS.
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