Stasimon 3
[Agon]
How, pray? For inform me what good you will do me by this.
Phidippides.
I will beat my mother, just as I have you.
Strepsiades.
What do you say? What do you say? This other, again, is a greater wickedness.
Phidippides.
But what if, having the worst Cause,
I shall conquer you in arguing, proving that it is right to beat one’s mother?
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Strepsiades.
Most assuredly, if you do this, nothing will hinder you from casting yourself
and your Worse Cause into the pit along with Socrates.
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