No More Learning

Have I mentioned the woman who killed her husband with a
hatchet? Of another, who caused hers to lose his reason with her potions?
And of the Acharnian woman . . .

THIRD WOMAN. Die, you bitch!

MNESILOCHUS. . . . who buried her father beneath the bath? [594]

THIRD WOMAN. And yet we listen to such things?

MNESILOCHUS.
Have I told how you attributed to yourself the male child
your slave had just borne and gave her your little daughter?

THIRD WOMAN. This insult calls for vengeance. Look out for your hair!

MNESILOCHUS. By Zeus! don't touch me.

THIRD WOMAN. There!

MNESILOCHUS. There! tit for tat! (_They exchange blows. _)

THIRD WOMAN. Hold my cloak, Philista!

MNESILOCHUS.