“Dicaepolis: Comedy too can sometimes discern what is right. I shall not please, but I shall say what is true.”

—  Aristophanés , The Acharnians

tr. Athen. 1912, Perseus http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text.jsp?doc=Aristoph.+Ach.+500
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