Ungrateful wretch; dare you talk so?
Are you not afraid of the thunders of Jupiter?
SPEUSIPPUS.

Jupiter thunder! nonsense! Anaxagoras says, that thunder is only an explosion produced by-- CALLIDEMUS.

He does! Would that it had fallen on his head for his pains! SPEUSIPPUS.

Nay: talk rationally.
CALLIDEMUS.

Rationally! You audacious young sophist! I will talk rationally.