Stasimon 1
[Agon]
By speaking what is just.
900
Unjust Cause.
But I will overturn them by contradicting them; for I deny that justice even exists at all.
Just Cause.
Do you deny that it exists?
Unjust Cause.
For come, where is it?
Just Cause.
With the gods.
Unjust Cause.
How, then, if justice exists, has Jupiter not perished, who bound his own father?
Just Cause.
Bah! This profanity now is spreading! Give me a basin.
Unjust Cause.
You are a dotard and absurd.
Just Cause.
You are debauched and shameless.
Unjust Cause.
You have spoken roses of me.
910
Just Cause.
And a dirty lickspittle.
910
Unjust Cause.
You crown me with lilies.
Just Cause.
And a parricide.
Unjust Cause.
You don’t know that you are sprinkling me with gold.
Just Cause.
Certainly not so formerly, but with lead.
Unjust Cause.
But now this is an ornament to me.
Just Cause.
You are very impudent.
915
Unjust Cause.
And you are antiquated.
915
Just Cause.
And through you, no one of our youths is willing to go to school; and you will be found out some time or other by the Athenians, what sort of doctrines you teach the simple-minded.
Unjust Cause.
You are shamefully squalid.
920
