The name they call themselves, it’s such a long one;

Very hard thinkers—but they’re first-rate men.

Pheidippides.—Faugh! vulgar fellows—I know ’em.

Dirty vagabonds,

Like Socrates there and Chærephon; a low set.

Strepsiades.—Pray hold your tongue—don’t show your ignorance,

But, if you care at all for your old father,

Be one of them; now do, and cut the turf.

Pheidippides.—Not I, by Bacchus! not if you would give me

That team of Arabs which Leogoras drives.