Which I have been fool enough to let you have.

No; in my early days, lying had not been dignified into a science, nor politics degraded into a trade.

I wrestled, and read Homer's battles, instead of dressing my hair, and reciting lectures in verse out of Euripides.

But I have some notion of what a play should be; I have seen Phrynichus, and lived with Aeschylus.

I saw the representation of the Persians.
SPEUSIPPUS.