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. But what good will rhythms do me for a living?

. In the first place, to be clever at an entertainment, understanding what rhythm is for the war-dance, and what, again, according to the dactyle.

. According to the dactyle? By Jove, but I know it.

. Tell me, pray.

. What else but this finger? Formerly, indeed, when I was yet a boy, this here!

. You are boorish and stupid.

. For I do not desire, you wretch, to learn any of these things.

. What then?

. That, that, the most unjust cause.

. But you must learn other things before these: namely, what quadrupeds are properly masculine.

. I know the males, if I am not mad:—.

. Do you see what you are doing? You are calling both the female and the male in the same way.

. How, pray? come, tell me.

. How? The one with you is, and the other is also.

. Yea, by Neptune! how now ought I to call them?

. The one, and the other.

. ? Capital, by the Air! So that, in return for this lesson alone, I will fill your full of barley-meal on all sides.

. See! see! there again 's another blunder! You make, which is feminine, to be masculine.

. In what way do I make masculine?

. Most assuredly; just as if you were to say.

. How, pray? Tell me.

. with you is tantamount to.

. Good sir, Cleonymus had no kneading-trough, but