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START: LYSISTRATA: I will not allow either boyfriend or husband--
CALONICE: I will not allow either boyfriend or husband--
LYSISTRATA: --to approach me in an erect condition. Go on!
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END: LYSISTRATA: And if I do not abide by it, may the cup prove to be filled with water.
CALONICE: And if I do not abide by it, may the cup prove to be filled with water.
Aristophanes; Alan H. Sommerstein, Lysistrata/The Acharnians/The Clouds, Penguin Classics, 1973, pp. 188-189.
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