130 ARISTOPHANES.

complexion will be pale, your shoulders narrow, your
chest thin, and your tongue long. Good will be evil
to you, and evil good.”

The Unjust Argument now opened his case, pro-
ceeding by cross-examination. “You say,” he said
to his adversary, “that the hot bath is not a good
thing. What is your reason for finding fault with
it?”

Just. “Because it is a very bad thing, and turns a
man into a coward.”

Unjust. “Hold! now I have you. Tell me, which
of the sons of Zeus was the bravest and performed
most valiant deeds?”

Just. “No one was superior to Hercules.”

Unjust. “Well, did you ever see a cold bath called
after Hercules?} And yet who was braver than
he?”

Just. “ Ah! this is the sort of argument which our
young men chatter all day, and which make the bath-
houses full and the gymnasia empty.”

Unjust. “Then again you speak against the As-
sembly, but I speak well of it. If it had been a bad
thing, Homer would never have made Nestor a great
speaker in the Assembly. Then about the tongue.
You say that young men ought not to cultivate it;
I say that they ought. You say that they ought to
be temperate; I say that they ought not. Tell me

1The hot baths at Thermopyle (Hot-Gate) were called after
Hercules,