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Leader Of The Chorus:
Let's see. What shall our city be called?
Euelpides:
Some name borrowed from the clouds, from these lofty regions in which we dwell — in short, some well-known name.
Pisthetaerus:
Do you like Nephelococcygia?
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Informer:
My friend, I am asking you for wings, not for words.
Pisthetaerus:
It's just my words that gives you wings.
Informer:
And how can you give a man wings with your words?
Pisthetaerus:
They all start this way. [...]
Informer:
So that words give wings?
Pisthetaerus:
Undoubtedly; words give wings to the mind and make a man soar to heaven. Thus I hope that my wise words will give you wings to fly to some less degrading trade.
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Epops:
Come let me see, what shall the name be for our city?
Euelpides:
Hence, from the clouds, and these meteoric regions, some all-swelling name.
Pisthetaerus:
Would you Cloud-cuckoo-land?
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Poet:
Straton wanders among the Scythian nomads, but has no linen garment. He is sad at only wearing an animal's pelt and no tunic. Do you get what I mean?
Pisthetaerus:
I understand that you want me to offer you a tunic. Hi! you (To the acolyte.) take off yours; we must help the poet.
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Men were only made into "men" with great difficulty even in primitive society: the male is not naturally "a man" any more than the woman. He has to be propped up into that position with some ingenuity, and is always likely to collapse.
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Born:
446 BC
Died:
386 BC
(aged 60)
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