Ungrateful wretch; dare you talk so? Are you not afraid of the thunders of Jupiter?
SPEUSIPPUS.
Jupiter thunder! nonsense! Anaxagoras says, that thunder is only an explosion produced by——
CALLIDEMUS.
He does! Would that it had fallen on his head for his pains!
SPEUSIPPUS.
Nay: talk rationally.
CALLIDEMUS.
Rationally! You audacious young sophist! I will talk rationally. Do you know that I am your father? What quibble can you make upon that?