Why, how? Strepsiades. Since I am justly entitled to chastise you; and you to chastise your son, if you should have one. Phidippides. But if I should not have one, I shall have wept for nothing, and you will die laughing at me. Strepsiades. To me, indeed, O comrades, he seems to speak justly; and I think we ought to concede to them what is fitting. For it is proper that we should weep, if we do not act justly.