JUSΤ. I am looking at them.

UNJ. Well! What do you see?

JUSΤ. By the gods, they are nearly all broad-arses. (pointing) See, this one I know to be such and that one and that other with the long hair.

UNJ. What have you to say, then?

JUSΤ. I am beaten. Debauchees! in the name of the gods, receive my cloak; I pass over to your ranks. (He goes back into the Thoughtery.)

UNJ. Well then! Are you going to take away your son or do you wish me to teach him how to speak?

STREPSIADES Teach him, chastise him and do not fail to sharpen his tongue well, on one side for petty law-suits and on the other for important cases.

UNJ. Don't worry, I shall return him to you an accomplished sophist.

Κρ. καὶ δὴ σκοπῶ.

Ητ. τί δῆθ΄ ὁρᾷς;

Κρ. πολὺ πλείονας͵ νὴ τοὺς θεούς͵ τοὺς εὐρυπρώκτους. τουτονὶ γοῦν οἶδ΄ ἐγὼ κἀκεινονὶ καὶ τὸν κομήτην τουτονί.

Ητ. τί δῆτ΄ ἐρεῖς;

Κρ. ἡττήμεθ΄. ὦ κινούμενοι͵ πρὸς τῶν θεῶν δέξασθέ μου θοἰμάτιον͵ ὡς ἐξαυτομολῶ πρὸς ὑμᾶς.

Ητ. τί δῆτα; πότερα τοῦτον ἀπάγεσθαι λαβὼν βούλει τὸν υἱόν͵ ἢ διδάσκω σοι λέγειν;

ΣΤΡΕΨΙΑΔΗΣ. δίδασκε καὶ κόλαζε καὶ μέμνησ΄ ὅπως εὖ μοι στομώσεις αὐτόν͵ ἐπὶ μὲν θάτερα οἷον δικιδίοις͵ τὴν δ΄ ἑτέραν αὐτοῦ γνάθον στόμωσον οἵαν εἰς τὰ μείζω πράγματα.

Ητ. ἀμέλει͵ κομιεῖ τοῦτον σοφιστὴν δεξιόν.  

Cf. PLATO : Searching for the things' reason, Disease and deformity of the soul ||| MAXIMUS CONFESSOR : Teachers of the clean mind ||| MANUEL II PALAEOLOGUS : The virtue of a king ||| GENNADIUS SCHOLARIUS : Words are the fathers of all Good ||| PAPATSONIS : Scheme