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The ambassador has just returned to Athens after spending several
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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
During the archonship of Euthymenes, you sent us to the Great King on a salary of two drachmae per diem.
DICAEOPOLIS aside
Ah! those poor drachmae!
AMBASSADOR
We suffered horribly on the plains of the Cayster, sleeping under tent, stretched deliciously on fine chariots, half dead with weariness.
DICAEOPOLIS aside
And I was very much at ease, lying on the straw along the battlements!
AMBASSADOR
Everywhere we were well received and forced to drink
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