{"product_id":"2940012417558","title":"THE CLOUDS","description":"DRAMATIS PERSONAE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     Strepsiades\u003cbr\u003e     Phidippides\u003cbr\u003e     Servant of Strepsiades\u003cbr\u003e     Disciples of Socrates\u003cbr\u003e     Socrates\u003cbr\u003e     Chorus of Clouds\u003cbr\u003e     Just Cause\u003cbr\u003e     Unjust Cause\u003cbr\u003e     Pasias\u003cbr\u003e     Amynias\u003cbr\u003e     Witness\u003cbr\u003e     Chaerephon\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     Scene: The interior of a sleeping-apartment:\u003cbr\u003e     Strepsiades, Phidippides, and two servants are in their\u003cbr\u003e     beds; a small house is seen at a distance. Time:\u003cbr\u003e     midnight.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     Strepsiades (sitting up in his bed). Ah me! Ah me! O\u003cbr\u003e     King Jupiter, of what a terrible length the nights are!\u003cbr\u003e     Will it never be day? And yet long since I heard the\u003cbr\u003e     cock. My domestics are snoring; but they would not have\u003cbr\u003e     done so heretofore! May you perish then, O war! For many\u003cbr\u003e     reasons; because I may not even punish my domestics.\u003cbr\u003e     Neither does this excellent youth awake through the\u003cbr\u003e     night; but takes his ease, wrapped up in five blankets.\u003cbr\u003e     Well, if it is the fashion, let us snore wrapped up.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     [Lies down, and then almost immediately starts up\u003cbr\u003e     again.]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     But I am not able, miserable man, to sleep, being\u003cbr\u003e     tormented by my expenses, and my stud of horses, and my\u003cbr\u003e     debts, through this son of mine. He with his long hair,\u003cbr\u003e     is riding horses and driving curricles, and dreaming of\u003cbr\u003e     horses; while I am driven to distraction, as I see the\u003cbr\u003e     moon bringing on the twentieths;  for the interest is\u003cbr\u003e     running on. Boy! Light a lamp, and bring forth my\u003cbr\u003e     tablets, that I may take them and read to how many I am\u003cbr\u003e     indebted, and calculate the interest.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     [Enter boy with a light and tablets.]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     Come, let me see; what do I owe? Twelve minae  to\u003cbr\u003e     Pasias. Why twelve minae to Pasias? Why did I borrow\u003cbr\u003e     them? When I bought the blood-horse. Ah me, unhappy!\u003cbr\u003e     Would that it had had its eye knocked out with a stone\u003cbr\u003e     first!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     Phidippides (talking in his sleep). You are acting\u003cbr\u003e     unfairly, Philo! Drive on your own course.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     Strep. This is the bane that has destroyed me; for even\u003cbr\u003e     in his sleep he dreams about horsemanship.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     Phid. How many courses will the war-chariots run?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     Strep. Many courses do you drive me, your father. But\u003cbr\u003e     what debt came upon me after Pasias? Three minae to\u003cbr\u003e     Amynias for a little chariot and pair of wheels.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     Phid. Lead the horse home, after having given him a good\u003cbr\u003e     rolling.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     Strep. O foolish youth, you have rolled me out of my\u003cbr\u003e     possessions; since I have been cast in suits, and others\u003cbr\u003e     say that they will have surety given them for the\u003cbr\u003e     interest.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     Phid. (awakening) Pray, father, why are you peevish, and\u003cbr\u003e     toss about the whole night?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     Strep. A bailiff out of the bedclothes is biting\u003cbr\u003e     me.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     Phid. Suffer me, good sir, to sleep a little.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     Strep. Then, do you sleep on; but know that all these\u003cbr\u003e     debts will turn on your head.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     [Phidippides falls asleep again.]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     Alas! Would that the match-maker had perished miserably,\u003cbr\u003e     who induced me to marry your mother. For a country life\u003cbr\u003e     used to be most agreeable to me, dirty, untrimmed,\u003cbr\u003e     reclining at random, abounding in bees, and sheep, and\u003cbr\u003e     oil-cake. Then I, a rustic, married a niece of Megacles,\u003cbr\u003e     the son of Megacles, from the city, haughty, luxurious,\u003cbr\u003e     and Coesyrafied. When I married her, I lay with her\u003cbr\u003e     redolent of new wine, of the cheese-crate, and abundance\u003cbr\u003e     of wool; but she, on the contrary, of ointment, saffron,\u003cbr\u003e     wanton-kisses, extravagance, gluttony, and of Colias and\u003cbr\u003e     Genetyllis.  I will not indeed say that she was idle;\u003cbr\u003e     but she wove. And I used to show her this cloak by way\u003cbr\u003e     of a pretext and say \"Wife, you weave at a great\u003cbr\u003e     rate.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     Servant re-enters.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     Servant. We have no oil in the lamp.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     Strep. Ah me! Why did you light the thirsty lamp? Come\u003cbr\u003e     hither that you may weep!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     Ser. For what, pray, shall I weep?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     Strep. Because you put in one of the thick wicks.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     [Servant runs out]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     After this, when this son was born to us, to me,\u003cbr\u003e     forsooth, and to my excellent wife, we squabbled then\u003cbr\u003e     about the name: for she was for adding hippos  to the\u003cbr\u003e     name, Xanthippus, or Charippus, or Callipides; but I was\u003cbr\u003e     for giving him the name of his grandfather, Phidonides.\u003cbr\u003e     For a time therefore we disputed; and then at length we\u003cbr\u003e     agreed, and called him Phidippides. 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