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Don’t worry. Everything will be all right. I think I’ll write up on the wall in the Ceramicus, where Architeles often takes a walk, “Aristaenetus is corrupting Clinias”, so that we can charge There is a pun here on Δρόμων ( = runner) and συνδραμεῖν. By a closer translation of the pun (involving, however, change of the Greek name Dromo) one might render “so that Swift’s charge may have our swift support’”. to the swift support of Dromo’s charge.
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How can you write it up without being seen?
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By night, my dear. I’ll get a bit of charcoal somewhere.
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Capital, Chelidonium. If only you can help me fight that old impostor Aristaenetus!
