Chorus
Now it is necessary for you, who are of our school, to say something novel, that you may not seem ...
Bdelycleon
interrupting
[530]
Someone bring me a tablet, quick. But what sort of man will be appear to be, if you advise me to do this?
Chorus
... to side with this youth in his opinions.
[535]
You see how serious the question has become; if he should prevail, which the gods forfend, it will be all over for us.
Bdelycleon
And I must note down whatever he says, so as to remember it.
Philocleon
But what will you say of it, if he should triumph over me in the debate?
Chorus
[540]
That old men are no longer good for anything; we shall be perpetually laughed at in the streets, shall be called thallophores,
[545]
mere brief-bags.