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 1 2 | hearts. Thirdly, the choir of elder men, who are from thirty
 2 2 |  mystery and festivity of the elder men, making use of the wine
 3 3 |     father—the younger to the elder.~Megillus. Of course.~Athenian.
 4 3 |        and, thirdly, that the elder should rule and the younger
 5 4 |  answer first, since I am the elder?~Cleinias. Perhaps you should.~
 6 4 |       their children, and the elder the younger, and the noble
 7 5 |      may meet the evil by the elder men giving advice and administering
 8 6 |       the younger show to the elder; let no young man voluntarily
 9 8 |   fruits of autumn. And if an elder, who is more than thirty
10 9 |    ought to consider that the elder has the precedence of the
11 9 | hateful to the Gods to see an elder man assaulted by a younger
12 9 |   young man when struck by an elder should lightly endure his
13 9 |       one shall reverence his elder in word and deed; he shall
14 9 |     him who dares to smite an elder be tried for assault, as
15 11|     only retaliating, let any elder who is present support the
16 12|      easier matters which the elder legislator has omitted may