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The ambassador has just returned to Athens after spending several years in the Persian court, and he is appearing at the assembly to speak to the citizens of the city. While Dicaeopolis watches, the ambassador disingenuously complains about his lavish treatment during his time in Persia. Dicaeopolis, who is already critical of the government and their handling of the Peloponeisian War, takes the ambassador’s speech as yet more evidence of the government’s corruption and their lack of
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HERALD ignoring this; loudly
The ambassadors, who are returned from the Court of the King!
DICAEOPOLIS
Of what King? I am sick of all those fine birds, the peacock ambassadors and their swagger.
HERALD
Silence!
DICAEOPOLIS as he perceives the entering ambassadors dressed in the Persian mode
Oh! oh! By Ecbatana, what a costume!
AMBASSADOR pompously
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