Chrem. What? I’ll tell you. Trifler, idler,

Cheat, drunkard, whoremaster, and prodigal.

—Think this, and think that you are ours.

Sostra. These words

Suit not a father.

Chrem. No, no, Clitipho,

Though from my brain you had been born, as Pallas

Sprang, it is said, from Jupiter, I would not

Bear the disgrace of your enormities.

Sostra. The Gods forbid——