DISCIPLE. They are sounding the abysses of Tartarus.[491]

STREPSIADES. And what is their rump looking at in the heavens?

DISCIPLE. It is studying astronomy on its own account. But come in; so

that the master may not find us here.

STREPSIADES. Not yet, not yet; let them not change their position. I want

to tell them my own little matter.

DISCIPLE. But they may not stay too long in the open air and away from

school.

STREPSIADES. In the name of all the gods, what is that? Tell me.

(_Pointing to a celestial globe._)

DISCIPLE. That is astronomy.

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