save me, since you have also ruined me.

Phid. What, pray, do you fear?

Strep. The Old and New.

Phid. Why, is any day old and new?

Strep. Yes; on which they say that they will make their
deposits against me.

Phid. Then those that have made them will lose them; for
it is not possible that two days can be one day.

Strep. Can not it?

Phid. Certainly not; unless the same woman can be both
old and young at the same time.

Strep. And yet it is the law.

Phid. For they do not, I think, rightly understand what
the law means.

Strep. And what does it mean?

Phid. The ancient Solon was by nature the commons'
friend.

Strep.This surely is nothing whatever to the Old and