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630. How then, if Neoclides the blear-eyed insults you?

. Him I bid count the hairs on a dog's tail.

. How then, if they knock you?

. I'll knock again; since I am not unused to many knocks.

. That thing alone is unconsidered, what in the world you will do, if the Policemen try to drag you away.

. (suiting the action to the word). I'll nudge with the elbow in this way; for I will never be caught by the middle.

. And if they lift you up, we will bid them let you alone.

. This has been well considered by us. But that we have not thought of, how we shall remember then to hold up our hands; for we are accustomed to hold up our legs.

. The thing is difficult: but nevertheless we must bold up our hands, having bared one arm up to the shoulder. Come then, gird up your tunics; and put on your Laconian shoes as soon as possible, as you always see your husbands do, when they are about to go to the Assembly or out of doors. And then, when all these matters are well, tie on your beards. And when you shall have arranged them precisely, having them fitted on, put on also your husbands' garments, which you stole; and then go, leaning on your staffs, singing