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153—166. I might have been sitting quiet. But now, according to my motion, I will not suffer a single hostess to make cisterns of water in the taverns. I don't approve of it, by the two goddesses!

. "By the two goddesses!" "Wretch, where have you your senses?

. What's the matter? for indeed I did not ask you for drink.

. No, by Jove; but you swore by the two goddesses, being a man. And yet you spoke the rest most cleverly.

. (correcting herself). Oh!—by Apollo!

. (snatching the chaplet from her). Have done then! for I would not put forward one foot to hold an assembly, unless this shall be arranged precisely.

. Give me the chaplet! I will speak again. For now I think I have gone over it properly in my mind. "To me, O women, who are sitting here"

. Again you are calling the men "women," you wretch.