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. Is it not just, however, that they should have their reward, on account of these?

. Tell me, pray, if they are really Clouds, what ails them, that they resemble mortal women? For they are not such.

. Pray, of what nature are they?

. I do not clearly know: at any rate they resemble spread-out fleeces, and not women, by Jupiter! not a bit; for these have noses.

. Answer, then, whatever I ask you.

. Then say quickly what you wish.

. Have you ever, when you looked up, seen a cloud like to a centaur, or a panther, or a wolf, or a bull?

. By Jupiter, have I! But what of that?

. They become all things, whatever they please. And then, if they see a person with long hair, a wild one of these hairy fellows, like the son of Xenophantes, in derision of his folly, they liken themselves to centaurs.

. Why, what, if they should see Simon, a plunderer of the public property, what do they do?