But here Antisthenes, appealing to Philippus, interposed: You are a
man full of comparisons.[13] Does not this worthy person strike you as
somewhat like a bully seeking to pick a quarrel?[14]

[13] Like Biron, "L. L. L." v. 2. 854. Or, "you are a clever
caricaturist." See Plat. "Symp." 215 A; Hug, "Enleitung," xiv.;
Aristoph. "Birds," 804 (Frere, p. 173); "Wasps," 1309.

[14] Aristoph. "Frogs," 857, "For it ill beseems illustrious bards to
scold like market-women." (Frere, p. 269); "Knights," 1410, "to
bully"; "Eccles." 142:

{kai loidorountai g' osper empepokotes,
kai ton paroinount' ekpherous' oi toxotai.}

Yes (replied the jester), he has a striking likeness to that person
and a heap of others. He bristles with metaphors.

Soc. For all that, do not you be too eager to draw comparisons at his
expense, or you will find yourself the image of a scold and
brawler.[15]

[15] Or, "a striking person."

Phil. But what if I compare him to all the primest creatures of the
world, to beauty's nonpareils,[16] to nature's best--I might be justly
likened to a flatterer but not a brawler.[17]

[16] Lit. "compare him to those in all things beauteous and the best."