SOCRATES. 'Tis Just and Unjust Discourse themselves that shall instruct him.[546]
STREPSIADES. I go, but forget it not, he must always, always be able to confound the true.
JUST DISCOURSE. Come here! Shameless as you may be, will you dare to show your face to the spectators?
UNJUST DISCOURSE. Take me where you list. I seek a throng, so that I may the better annihilate you.
JUST DISCOURSE. Annihilate me! Do you forget who you are?
UNJUST DISCOURSE. I am Reasoning.
JUST DISCOURSE. Yes, the weaker Reasoning.[547]
UNJUST DISCOURSE. But I triumph over you, who claim to be the stronger.
JUST DISCOURSE. By what cunning shifts, pray?
UNJUST DISCOURSE. By the invention of new maxims.