From his poverty, I am inclined to suppose that he painted historical pictures.), that you may be as fine as Alcibiades! I must lie on bare boards, with a stone (See Aristophanes; Plutus, 542.) for my pillow, and a rotten mat for my coverlid, by the light of a wretched winking lamp, while you are marching in state, with as many torches as one sees at the feast of Ceres, to thunder with your hatchet (See Theocritus; Idyll ii.

128.) at the doors of half the Ionian ladies in Peiraeus.

(This was the most disreputable part of Athens.

See Aristophanes: Pax, 165.) SPEUSIPPUS.

Why, thou unreasonable old man! Thou most shameless of fathers!-- CALLIDEMUS.