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"MAGISTRATEDon't men grow old?LYSISTRATANot like women. When a man comes homeThough he's grey as grief he can always get a girl.There's no second spring for a woman. None.She can't recall it, nobody wants her, howeverShe squanders her time on the promise of oracles,It's no use..."

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About Aristophanes

Aristophanes was an ancient Greek comic playwright of classical Athens and the most important surviving representative of Old Comedy. His plays, including The Clouds, Lysistrata, and The Frogs, are key sources for Athenian political and social life.

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