Strepsiades: By Mist, you will not stay here any longer;
Strepsiades: But come in and eat the pillars of Megacles.
815
Pheidippides: O strange man, what is the matter with you, O father?
Pheidippides: You are not thinking well, by Zeus of Olympus.
Strepsiades: Behold, behold, by Olympian Zeus! the folly,
Strepsiades: that Zeus is of such great size.
Pheidippides: But why did you really laugh at that?
820
Strepsiades: Because you are a child and you have old-fashioned ideas.
Strepsiades: Nevertheless, come over, so that you may know more,
Strepsiades: And I will tell you something, which, having learned, a man will be.
Strepsiades: so that you teach this to no one.
Pheidippides: Look; what is it?
825
Strepsiades: You have sworn by Zeus now.
Pheidippides: Yes, I [will].
Strepsiades: Do you see, then, how good it is to learn?
Strepsiades: Zeus is not, O Pheidippides.
Strepsiades: A whirlwind, having expelled Zeus, reigns.
Pheidippides: Alas, what nonsense are you talking?
Strepsiades: Know that this is so.
Pheidippides: Who says these things?
830
Strepsiades: Socrates the Melian
Strepsiades: and Chaerephon, who knows the tracks of fleas.
Pheidippides: But you have come to the point where you are one of the madmen.
Pheidippides: So he persuades men even when they are angry?
Strepsiades: And say nothing bad about clever men.
Strepsiades: and having intelligence; of which, because of stinginess
835
Strepsiades: No one has ever cut it, nor has anyone anointed it.
Strepsiades: He did not even come to the bathhouse to bathe; but you
Strepsiades: Just as the rain of the dead washes away my life.
Strepsiades: But come as quickly as possible and find out for me.
Pheidippides: 'But what good could one learn from those men?'
840
Strepsiades: Truly? All things that are wise among men;
Strepsiades: You will know yourself that you are ignorant and dull.
Strepsiades: But wait for me a little while here.
Pheidippides: Alas, what shall I do, my father being out of his mind?
Pheidippides: whether, having led him in by madness, he caught [him],
845
Pheidippides: Shall I tell my madness to the coffin-bearers?
Strepsiades: Bring [it], let me see; what do you call this? Tell me.
Strepsiades: Very well. But what about this one?
Strepsiades: Both at the same time? You are ridiculous.
Strepsiades: not now for the rest, but to call this one
850
Strepsiades: this cock here is a cock-a-doodle-doo!
Pheidippides: a chicken? You've learned the right-hand side of that.
Pheidippides: having just gone inside, to the Earth-born?
