are. But wait for me here a short time.

[Runs off]

Phid. Ah me! What shall I do, my father being crazed?
Shall I bring him into court and convict him of lunacy,
or shall I give information of his madness to the
coffin-makers?

[Re-enter Strepsiades with a cock under one arm and a
hen under the other]

Strep. Come, let me see; what do you consider this to
be? Tell me.

Phid. Alectryon.

Strep. Right. And what this?

Phid. Alectryon.

Strep. Both the same? You are very ridiculous. Do not do
so, then, for the future; but call this alektryaina, and
this one alektor.

Phid. Alektryaina! Did you learn these clever things by
going in just now to the Titans?

Strep. And many others too; but whatever I learned on
each occasion I used to forget immediately, through