ALCIBIADES.
Now, by Mercury, I shall die with laughing. Oh Speusippus, Speusippus! Go back to your old father. Dig vineyards, and judge causes, and be a respectable citizen. But never, while you live, again dream of being a philosopher.
SPEÜSIPPÜS.
Nay, I was only——
(1)See Euripides; Hyppolytus, 606. For the jesuitical
morality of this line Euripides is bitterly attacked by the
comic poet.
ALCIBIADES.
A pupil of Gorgias and Melesigenes afraid of Tartarus! In what region of the infernal world do you expect your domicile to be fixed? Shall you roll a stone like Sisyphus? Hard exercise, Speusippus!
SPEUSIFPUS.
In the name of all the gods—