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clerk is the worst of all, for he can't understand anything."

give you, you old witch? for, of course, you do not mean to tell me

again. And yet I should have dearly liked, I own, to have touched her lips;

Ath. Come now and let us all join in asking this question ofTyrtaeus: O most divine poet, we will say to him, the excellent praisewhich you have bestowed on those who excel in war sufficientlyproves that you are wise and good, and I and Megillus and Cleiniasof Cnosus do, as I believe, entirely agree with you. But we shouldlike to be quite sure that we are speaking of the same men; tell us,then, do you agree with us in thinking that there are two kinds ofwar; or what would you say? A far inferior man to Tyrtaeus wouldhave no difficulty in replying quite truly, that war is of two kindsone which is universally called civil war, and is as we were justnow saying, of all wars the worst; the other, as we should alladmit, in which we fall out with other nations who are of adifferent race, is a far milder form of warfare.