What 's worthier limning than his household life?

His whims and ways, his quarrels with the spouse,

And how the son, instead of learning knead

Kilikian loaves, brings heartbreak on his sire

By buying horseflesh branded San, each flank,

From shrewd Menippos who imports the ware:

While pretty daughter Kepphé too much haunts

The shop of Sporgilos the barber! brave!

Out with Thearion's meal-tub politics

In lieu of Pisthetairos, Strepsiades!