“Then she is the mother of the sea-hedgehog.”
“And so is yours!”
“And you are the full brother of gudgeons, cubs, and sucking-pigs.”
“So are you!”
“And your father is a dog.”
“And yours, too!”
It was now evident they were in anger, and accordingly Dionysidoros interposed, and observed jocularly,—
“Provided you will answer me, Ctesippos, I undertake to make you confess that your father is just what my brother has said. So, tell me, have you a dog?”
“I have, and a snappish cur he is, too.”
“And has he young ones?”