"You’ll never fashion anything clever by drinking water!"
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Pytine ("The Wineflask")
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Cratinus (Greek: Κρατῖνος Kratinos; 519 BC – 422 BC) was an Athenian poet and playwright of the Old Comedy. None of his plays has survived intact, but many fragments and quotations from his plays are known.
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