“Then it must be amusing, or you would not have laughed.”
“Did you not laugh, my Socrates?”
“Yes, of course; otherwise they would have thought me a blockhead. You know that he has depicted me as a rogue and fool. Since I am neither, it was not serious; therefore it was in jest.”
“Do you think so? I think it was serious.”
“And you laugh at the serious? Do you weep, then, at jesting? Then you would be mad.”
“Do you think I am mad?”
“Yes, if you think me a rogue.”
“You know that Cleon is with the army.”
“I was astonished to hear it.”
“Astonished! You think, then, that he is not fit to command.”