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CHREMYLUS. That t'other washes wool.
CARIO. That this one is a tanner.
CHREMYLUS. And that other sells onions.
CARIO. And if the adulterer, caught red-handed, is depilated,[743] 'tis on account of you.[744]
PLUTUS. Oh! great gods! I knew naught of all this!
CARIO. Is it not he who lends the Great King all his pride?
CHREMYLUS. Is it not he who draws the citizens to the Assembly?[745]
CARIO. And tell me, is it not you who equip the triremes?[746]
CHREMYLUS. And who feed our mercenaries at Corinth?[747]
[743] This was the mild punishment inflicted upon the adulterer by Athenian custom. The laws of Solon were very indulgent to this kind of crime; they only provided that the guilty woman might be repudiated by her husband, but were completely silent concerning her accomplice.
[744] Cario means to convey that women often paid their lovers, or at all events made it their business to open up the road to fortune for them.
[745] In order to receive the triobolus, the fee for attendance.
[746] The richest citizens were saddled with this expense and were called trierarchs.
[747] Athens had formed an alliance with Corinth and Thebes against Sparta in 393 B.C., a little before the production of the 'Plutus.' Corinth, not feeling itself strong enough to resist the attacks of the Spartans unaided, had demanded the help of an Athenian garrison, and hence Athens maintained some few thousand mercenaries there.
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