AMYNIAS. Yes, by the gods! I have been thrown from a chariot.
STREPSIADES. Why then drivel as if you had fallen from an ass?[570]
AMYNIAS. Am I drivelling because I demand my money?
STREPSIADES. No, no, you cannot be in your right senses.
AMYNIAS. Why?
STREPSIADES. No doubt your poor wits have had a shake.
AMYNIAS. But by Hermes! I will sue you at law, if you do not pay me.
STREPSIADES. Just tell me; do you think it is always fresh water that Zeus lets fall every time it rains, or is it always the same water that the sun pumps over the earth?
AMYNIAS. I neither know, nor care.
STREPSIADES. And actually you would claim the right to demand your money, when you know not a syllable of these celestial phenomena?