Disc. Then I will speak;
But set it down among our mysteries.
It is a question put to Chærophon
By our great master Socrates to answer,
How many of his own lengths at a spring
A Flea can hop; for one by chance had skipp’d
Straight from the brow of Chærophon to th’ head
Of Socrates.
Streps. And how did then the sage
Contrive to measure this?