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What's the matter, my friends, what's your complaint?

Justice! in the name of the people.

Against whom?

Against Socrates.

Ha! ha! against Socrates? that fellow has been often accused: what has he done now?

I don't know what.

They say he gives money to young girls in marriage.

Ay, he corrupts our youth.

O he's a wicked wretch: he has offered up no cakes to Ceres; he says there is a great deal of useless gold and silver in the temple.

Ay, and he says the priests of Ceres get drunk sometimes; that's true; he's a wicked wretch indeed.

He's a heretic; he denies the plurality of gods; he's a deist: he believes only in one God; he's an atheist.