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394—413. But what was the cause, that so vast a crowd was assembled so early?

. What else, but that the Prytanes determined to bring forward a motion concerning the safety of the state? And then forthwith the blear-eyed Neoclides first crept forward. And then you can't think how the people bawled out, "Is it not shameful, that this fellow should dare to harangue the people, and that too when the question is concerning safety, who did not save his own eye-lashes?" And he cried aloud and looked around and said, "What then ought I to have done?"

. If I had happened to be present, I would have said, "Pound together garlic with fig-juice and put in Laconian spurge, and anoint your eye-lids with it at night."

. After him the very clever Evæon came forward, naked, as appeared to most,—he himself, however, said he had on a tunic,—and then delivered a most democratic speech. "You see me, myself also, in want of safety of the value of four staters. Yet, nevertheless, I will tell you how you shall