Even so.
CALLIDEMUS.

Oh Hercules! Oh Bacchus! This is too much.

Here is an universal genius; sophist,--orator,--poet.

To what a three-headed monster have I given birth! a perfect Cerberus of intellect! And pray what may your piece be about?
Or will your tragedy, like your speech, serve equally for any subject?
SPEUSIPPUS.

I thought of several plots;--Oedipus,--Eteocles and Polynices,--the war of Troy,--the murder of Agamemnon.
CALLIDEMUS.