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278—295. some old man's song, imitating the manner of the country people.

. You say well. But let us [to those next her] go before them; for I fancy other women also will come forthwith from the country to the Pnyx.

. Come, hasten! for it is the custom there for those who are not present at the Pnyx at day-break, to skulk away, having not even a doit. [The women advance into the orchestra, and there form themselves into a chorus.]

. It is time for us to advance, O men,—for this we ought mindfully to be always repeating, so that it may never escape our memories. For the danger is not trifling, if we be caught entering upon so great an enterprise in secret. Let us go to the Assembly, O men; for the Thesmothetes threatened, that whoever should not come at dawn very early, in haste, looking sharp and sour, content with garlic-pickle, he would not give him the three obols.