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A fresher Gale Begins to wave the wood, and stir the stream, Sweeping with shadowy gust the fields of corn; While the Quail clamors for his running mate.
james thomson— James Thomson, The Seasons, Summer (1727), line 1,655.
Sausage-Seller: You [demagogues] are like the fishers for eels; in still waters they catch nothing, but if they thoroughly stir up the slime, their fishing is good; in the same way it's only in troublous times that you line your pockets. (tr. O'Neill 1938, Perseus )
— Knights, line 864-867
— Dialog aimed at the politician Cleon, symbolizing demagogues for the author.
