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Pour again.

NICIAS. Is "pour again" in the oracle?

DEMOSTHENES. Oh, Bacis! [19]

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. [20]

NICIAS. First dealer. And after him, who?

DEMOSTHENES. After him, a sheep-dealer. [21]

NICIAS.