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'Tis we and Pericles, who have stretched it by dint
of
squeezing
it.
Aristophanes
There is the whole surface of the earth.
Look!
Here is Athens.
STREPSIADES.
Athens!
you are mistaken; I see no courts sitting.
[493]
DISCIPLE.
Nevertheless it is really and truly the Attic territory.
STREPSIADES.
And where are my neighbours of Cicynna?
DISCIPLE.
They live here.
This is Euboea; you see this island, that is so
long and narrow.
STREPSIADES.
I know.
'Tis we and Pericles, who have stretched it by dint
of
squeezing
it.
[494] And where is Lacedaemon?
DISCIPLE.
Lacedaemon?
Why, here it is, look.
STREPSIADES.
How near it is to us!
Think it well over, it must be removed
to a greater distance.
DISCIPLE.
But, by Zeus, that is not possible.
STREPSIADES.
Then, woe to you!
And who is this man suspended up in a
basket?
DISCIPLE.
'Tis _he himself_.
STREPSIADES.
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