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632 Come, O Charitimides, and Smicythus, and Draces, follow in haste, taking heed to yourself that you blunder in none of those things which you ought to effect. But see that, when we have received our ticket, we then sit down near each other, so that we may vote for all measures, as many as it behoves our sisterhood. And yet, what am I saying? for I ought to have called them "brotherhood."

But see that we jostle those who have come from the city; as many as heretofore, when a person had to receive only one obolus on his coming, used to sit and chatter, crowned with chaplets. But now they are a great nuisance. But when the brave Myronides held office, no one used to dare to conduct the affairs of the state for the receipt of money; but each of them used to come with drink in a little wine-skin, and bread at the same time, and two onions besides, and three olives. But now, like people carrying clay, they seek to get three obols, whenever they transact any public business.

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