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Autobulus

AUTOBULUS. Seat yourself then here by us, that if there should be any occasion for a testimony, we may not be troubled to run to Aristotle’s writings, but acquiescing in your experience, may give our suffrages according to what you aver for truth.

Optatus

OPTATUS. Go to then, young gentlemen: are ye agreed upon the method and order of the dispute? 5

Phaedimus

PHAEDIMUS. Truly, worthy Soclarus, that very thing occasioned a great debate among us; but at length, according to that of Euripides, The child of Fortune, Chance, the point agreed, And fixed the method how we should proceed, by giving the precedence to the land animals to plead their cause before marine creatures.

Soclarus

SOCLARUS. Then, Aristotimus, it is high time for you to speak and for us to hear.