“Hierocles: You will never make the crab walk straight.”

—  Aristophanés , Peace

tr. O'Neill 1938, Perseus http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text.jsp?doc=Aristoph.+Peace+1083
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Peace (421 BC)

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Athenian playwright of Old Comedy -448–-386 BC

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