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636. Hollo you! what are you doing? You are not easing yourself, I suppose?

. I? Certainly not any longer, by Jove; but am rising up.

. Have you your wife's smock on?

. Yes, for in the dark I chanced to find this in the house. But whence have you come, pray?

. From the Assembly.

. Why, is it dismissed already?

. Nay, rather, by Jove, at dawn. And indeed the vermilion, O dearest Jove! which they threw about on all sides, afforded much laughter.

. Then did you get your three obols?

. Would I had! But now I came too late; so that I am ashamed By Jove, I have brought nothing else but my pouch.

. But what was the reason?

. A very great crowd of men, as never at any time came all at once to the Pynx. And indeed, when we saw them, we compared them all to shoe-makers: for the Assembly was marvellously filled with white to look at. So that neither I myself nor many others got any thing.

. Shouldn't I then get any thing, if I went now?

. By no means: not even, by Jove, if you went then, when the cock crowed the second time.

. Ah me, wretched! "O Antilochus, loudly bewail me who live, more than the three obols:" for I am undone.