Unj. Where, pray, did you ever see cold Herculean baths?
And yet, who was more valiant than he?

Just. These are the very things which make the bath full
of youths always chattering all day long, but the
palaestras empty.

Unj. You next find fault with their living in the
market-place; but I commend it. For if it had been bad,
Homer would never have been for representing Nestor as
an orator; nor all the other wise men. I will return,
then, from thence to the tongue, which this fellow says
our youths ought not to exercise, while I maintain they
should. And again, he says they ought to be modest: two
very great evils. For tell me to whom you have ever seen
any good accrue through modesty and confute me by your
words.

Just. To many. Peleus, at any rate, received his sword
on account of it.

Unj. A sword? Marry, he got a pretty piece of luck, the
poor wretch! While Hyperbolus, he of the lamps, got more
than many talents by his villainy, but by Jupiter, no
sword!

Just. And Peleus married Thetis, too, through his
modesty.

Unj. And then she went off and left him; for he was not