Then Kleon did his best to bully me:

Called me before the Law Court: 'Such a play

Satirized citizens with strangers there,

Such other,'—why, its fault was in myself!

I was, this time, the stranger, privileged

To act no play at all,—Egyptian, I—

Rhodian or Kameirensian, Aiginete,

Lindian, or any foreigner he liked—

Because I can't write Attic, probably!

Go ask my rivals,—how they roughed my fleece,