Well! that is a task for which your studies under the sophists may have fitted you.
SPEUSIPPUS.

You are wide of the mark.
CALLIDEMUS.

Then what, in the name of Juno, is your scheme?
Do you intend to join Orestes (A celebrated highwayman of Attica.

See Aristophanes; Aves, 711; and in several other passages.), and rob on the highway?
Take care; beware of the eleven (The police officers of Athens.); beware of the hemlock.

It may be very pleasant to live at other people's expense; but not very pleasant, I should think, to hear the pestle give its last bang against the mortar, when the cold dose is ready.