Quotes About Drachmae

To invoke solely the weaker arguments and yet triumph is an art worth more than a hundred thousand drachmae.

Where is Amphitheus? Come and speak with me. AMPHITHEUS Here I am. DICAEOPOLIS Take these eight drachmae and go and conclude a truce with the Lacedaemonians for me, my wife and my children; I leave you free, my dear citizens, to send out embassies and to stand gaping in the air.

To invoke solely the weaker arguments and yet triumph is an art worth more than a hundred thousand drachmae.