Strepsiades: fifth, fourth, third, after that second,
Strepsiades: Then the one which I most of all of the days
Strepsiades: I fear and shudder and am disgusted,
Strepsiades: Immediately after this there is a maiden both old and new.
Strepsiades: for everyone who swears, I happen to be a debtor,
1135
Strepsiades: He says that the gods will ruin and utterly destroy me.
Strepsiades: And also from me, as I ask moderately and justly,
Strepsiades: O divine one, do not, I beg, take it now,
Strepsiades: "But it's not right to lift it up and then let it go; they never say that."
Strepsiades: 'Thus I will be dismissed, but they abuse me.'
1140
Strepsiades: How unjust I am, and they say that I am to be judged.
Strepsiades: Let him be judged now, then; for I care little about it,
Strepsiades: if Phidippides has learned well to speak.
Strepsiades: I shall soon know after cutting the schoolhouse.
Strepsiades: boy, alas, boy, boy.
1145
Socrates: I greet Strepsiades.
Strepsiades: And I too [want to go with] you; but take this one first;
Strepsiades: For one must admire the teacher in some way.
Strepsiades: And tell me whether he has learned the speech.
Strepsiades: That one, whom you just introduced.
Socrates: He has learned.
1150
Strepsiades: Well, O all-powerful Apaiolis.
Socrates: So you could escape any punishment you wish.
Strepsiades: And even if witnesses were present when I borrowed?
Socrates: By far more so, even if a thousand were present.
