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"Magistrate: What do you propose to do then, pray?Lysistrata: You ask me that! Why, we propose to administer the treasury ourselvesMagistrate: You do?Lysistrata: What is there in that a surprise to you? Do we not administer the budget of household expenses?Magistrate: But that is not the same thing.Lysistrata: How so – not the same thing?Magistrate: It is the treasury supplies the expenses of the War.Lysistrata: That's our first principle – no War!"

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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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