Oh, all ye gods and goddesses, what sacrilege, what perjury have I ever committed, that I should be singled out from among all the citizens of Athens to be the father of this fool?
SPEUSIPPUS.

What now?
By Bacchus, old man, I would not advise you to give way to such fits of passion in the streets.

If Aristophanes were to see you, you would infallibly be in a comedy next spring.
CALLIDEMUS.

You have more reason to fear Aristophanes than any fool living.

Oh, that he could but hear you trying to imitate the slang of Straton (See Aristophanes; Equites, 1375.) and the lisp of Alcibiades! (See Aristophanes; Vespae, 44.) You would be an inexhaustible subject.
You would console him for the loss of Cleon.
SPEUSIPPUS.