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Cleon
Beginning another crescendo of competitive screeching
Beware of the carcan! Sausage-Seller
I denounce you for cowardice. Cleon
I will tan your hide. Sausage-Seller
[370] I will flay you and make a thief's pouch with the skin. Cleon
I will peg you out on the ground. Sausage-Seller
I will slice you into mince-meat. Cleon
I will tear out your eyelashes. Sausage-Seller
I will slit your gullet. Demosthenes
[375] We will set his mouth open with a wooden stick as the cooks do with pigs; we will tear out his tongue, and, looking down his [380] gaping throat, will see whether his inside has any pimples.
Aristophanes. Knights. The Complete Greek Drama, vol. 2. Eugene O'Neill, Jr. New York. Random House. 1938.
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