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It’s the middle of the night, and Strepsiades - an elderly farmer - cannot get to sleep. He’s plagued by worries regarding his finances. Unfortunately, his son, Phiddipides, has developed an interest in an expensive hobby: horse-riding. Phiddipides is fast asleep and talking in his sleep about horses, while his father engages in a comic (and somewhat one-sided) dialogue with his sleeping son.
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STREPSIADES [sitting up] Great gods! will these nights never end? will daylight never come? I heard the cock crow long ago and my slaves are snoring still! Ah! Ah! It wasn't like this formerly. Curses on the war! has it not done me ills enough? Now I may not even chastise my own slaves. Again there's this brave lad, who never wakes the whole long night, but, wrapped in
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