To give it the first push, and see it roll
Along the vast abyss.
Cleon. My mother would have had my youth brought up
To spin with girls in Sparta.
Crat. Well said, my boy; yet Hercules, they say,
Took up the distaff once.
Cleon. Yes, when he had been conquered by a woman.
Panth. [To Cleom.] One thing I have forgot, which may import you,—
You'll suddenly hear news from Greece.
Cleom. Thou wert