from The Clouds,
* Lines 1036-1111, * Translator anonymous, *
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DISCOURSE At last! I was choking with impatience, I was burning to
upset his arguments! If I am called the Weaker Reasoning in the
schools, it is just because I was the first to discover the means to
confute the laws and the decrees of justice. To invoke solely the
weaker arguments and yet triumph is an art worth more than a hundred
thousand drachmae. But see how I shall batter down the sort of
education of which he is so proud. Firstly, he forbids you to bathe in
hot water. What grounds have you for condemning hot baths?
JUST DISCOURSE Because they are baneful and enervate men.
UNJ. Enough said! Oh! you poor wrestler! From the very outset I have
seized you and hold you round the middle; you cannot escape me. Tell
me, of all the sons of Zeus, who had the stoutest heart, who performed
the most doughty deeds?