Strepsiades: And indeed many other things too; but whatever I might learn on each occasion,
Strepsiades: I would have forgotten immediately under the weight of years.
855
Pheidippides: Is it for this very reason that you even lost your tunic?
Strepsiades: But you have not perished, but you have been thoroughly neglected.
Pheidippides: Where did you stuff the boots, you wretched woman?
Strepsiades: Just as Pericles, I have lost everything I needed.
Strepsiades: But come, walk on, let us go; then to the father.
860
Strepsiades: Having been persuaded, I went wrong; and so, by Zeus, I once did,
Strepsiades: I know, having been persuaded by the one who stammers in the sixth year,
Strepsiades: which first obol I received as a juror's fee,
Strepsiades: I would buy you a carriage from the Dioscuri.
Pheidippides: Indeed, you will be annoyed by these things at some time in the future.
865
Strepsiades: Good that you have been persuaded. Come here, here, O Socrates,
Strepsiades: Come out, for I am bringing you this son of mine.
Strepsiades: Having persuaded him unwillingly.
Socrates: for he is still a beginner,
Socrates: And not yet the woolen socks of the ones here.
Pheidippides: You yourself would be a cloak, if you were at least hanging.
870
Strepsiades: Not to the crows? Do you curse the teacher?
Socrates: 'Look, he is hanging,' as he foolishly exclaimed.
Socrates: and with the lips split open.
Socrates: How might this fellow ever learn to escape a lawsuit?
Socrates: 'Either a call or an unconvincing babble?'
875
Socrates: And yet Hyperbolus has learned this for a talent.
Strepsiades: by all means teach him; he is wise by nature.
Strepsiades: immediately, by Zeus, the little boy is there!
Strepsiades: He was molding ships inside the house, and he was carving them,
Strepsiades: and he made cart-wheels of leather,
880
Strepsiades: And from the frogs in the pond, how do you think he made them?
Strepsiades: so that he may learn those two things,
Strepsiades: the better one, whoever he is, and the worse one,
Strepsiades: who, speaking unjustly, overturns the stronger man;
Strepsiades: But if not, at least [I will do it] by any unjust art.
885
Socrates: He himself will learn from those two arguments.
Socrates: But I will be away.
Strepsiades: remember this now, how
Strepsiades: he will be able to contradict every law.
