"XANTHIAS: [...] But what was your dream? Let me hear.SOSIAS: Oh! it is a dream of high import. It has reference to the hull of the State; to nothing less.XANTHIAS: Tell it to me quickly; show me its very keel.SOSIAS: In my first slumber I thought I saw sheep, wearing cloaks and carrying staves, met in assembly on the ; a rapacious whale was haranguing them and screaming like a pig that is being grilled.XANTHIAS: Faugh! faugh!SOSIAS: What's the matter?XANTHIAS: Enough, enough, spare me. Your dream stinks vilely of old leather.SOSIAS: Then this scoundrelly whale seized a balance and set to weighing ox-fat.XANTHIAS: Alas! it's our poor Athenian people, whom this accursed beast wishes to cut up and despoil of their fat."