Soc. You are boorish and stupid.

Strep. For I do not desire, you wretch, to learn any of
these things.

Soc. What then?

Strep. That, that, the most unjust cause.

Soc. But you must learn other things before these;
namely, what quadrupeds are properly masculine.

Strep. I know the males, if I am not mad-krios, tragos,
tauros, kuon, alektryon.

Soc. Do you see what you are doing? You are calling both
the female and the male alektryon in the same way.

Strep. How, pray? Come, tell me.

Soc. How? The one with you is alektryon, and the other
is alektryon also.

Strep. Yea, by Neptune! How now ought I to call them?

Soc. The one alektryaina and the other alektor.

Strep. Alektryaina? Capital, by the Air! So that, in
return for this lesson alone, I will fill your kardopos
full of barley-meal on all sides.