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were already dead. But go as quickly as possible, and learn instead of me.

. What good could any one learn from them?

. What, really! Whatever wisdom there is amongst men. And you will know yourself, how ignorant and stupid you are. But wait for me here a short time. [Runs off.]

. Ah me! what shall I do, my father being crazed? Shall I bring him into court and convict him of lunacy, or shall I give information of his madness to the coffin-makers? [Re-enter Strepsiades with a cock under one arm and a hen under the other.]

. Come, let me see; what do you consider this to be? tell me.

. Alectryon.

. Right. And what this?

. Alectryon.

. Both the same? You are very ridiculous. Do not do so, then, for the future; but call this, and this one.

. ! Did you learn these clever things by going in just now to the Titans?

. And many others too; but whatever I learnt on each occasion I used to forget immediately, through length of years.

. Is it for this reason, pray, you have also lost your cloak?

. I have not lost it; but have studied it away.

. What have you made of your slippers, you foolish man?

. I have expended them, like Pericles, for needful