Socrates.
What then? whether do you wish to take and lead away this your son, or shall I teach him to speak?
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Strepsiades.
Teach him, and chastise him: and remember that you train him properly; on the one side able for petty suits; but train his other jaw able for the more important causes.
Socrates.
Make yourself easy; you shall receive him back a clever sophist.
Strepsiades.
Nay, rather, pale and wretched.
Exeunt Socrates, Strepsiades, and Phidippides.Clouds. Aristophanes. William James Hickie (Translator). London. 1853.
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