and hares! I must drink water, that you may play the cottabus
(This game consisted in projecting wine out of cups; it was a
diversion extremely fashionable at Athenian entertainments.) with
Chian wine! I must wander about as ragged as Pauson (Pauson was
an Athenian painter, whose name was synonymous with beggary. See
Aristophanes; Plutus, 602. From his poverty, I am inclined to
suppose that he painted historical pictures.), that you may be as
fine as Alcibiades! I must lie on bare boards, with a stone (See
Aristophanes; Plutus, 542.) for my pillow, and a rotten mat for
my coverlid, by the light of a wretched winking lamp, while you
are marching in state, with as many torches as one sees at the
feast of Ceres, to thunder with your hatchet (See Theocritus;
Idyll ii. 128.) at the doors of half the Ionian ladies in
Peiraeus. (This was the most disreputable part of Athens. See
Aristophanes: Pax, 165.)

SPEUSIPPUS.
Why, thou unreasonable old man! Thou most shameless of fathers!-
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CALLIDEMUS.
Ungrateful wretch; dare you talk so? Are you not afraid of the
thunders of Jupiter?

SPEUSIPPUS.
Jupiter thunder! nonsense! Anaxagoras says, that thunder is only
an explosion produced by--

CALLIDEMUS.
He does! Would that it had fallen on his head for his pains!