THE CLOUDS. - 127

Phei. “Who told you this nonsense?”

Strep. “ Socrates.”

Phet. “ And you believe these lunatics ?”

Strep. “Hush! say nothing against these clever,
sensible men. They are so economical that they
never shave themselves or go to the bath. As for
you, you wash away my property, just as if I were

dead. But do go and learn what they have to teach
you.”

Phet. “Very clever, indeed; and that is the
reason, perhaps, why you have lost your cloak.”

Strep. “TI haven't lost it; I thought it away.”

Phew. “And your shoes — what of them?”
| Strep. “Lost them, like Pericles, for a necessary
purpose.! But go, I beseech you.”

Phet. “Yes, Pll go; but you'll be sorry for it some
day.”

The two Arguments, the Just and the Unjust, now
appeared, and immediately engaged in a battle royal
over the new pupil. “TI’ll be too much for you,”
cried the Just Argument. “How?” replied the
Unjust.

Just. “ By saying what is right.”

Unjust. “There is no such thing as right.”

1 Pericles, in 445 B.c., entered in the accounts which he rendered
to the people of public moneys spent, “ten talents for a necessary pur-
pose.” This item passed without question. The money had been
given, it was said, to Pleistoanax, king of Sparta, and Cleandridas, his
“chief of the staff,” to induce them to evacuate the Athenian territory
which had been invaded by a Spartan army,