TIMOCLES You admit your defeat, then, by going away first?
 DAMIS Yes, Timocles, for like men threatened with
violence from some quarter or other, you have taken
refuge at the altars. Therefore I vow by the sheetanchor, I want to make an agreement with you now,
right at the altars, not to dispute any more on this
topic.
 TIMOCLES Are you mocking me, you ghoul, you miscreant,
you abomination, you gallows-bird, you scum of the
earth? Don’t we know who your father was, and

 

how your mother was a courtesan, and that you
strangled your brother and you run after women and
corrupt the young, you height of all that’s lewd and
shameless? Don’t run away! Take a thrashing
from me before you go! Ill brain you right now
with this brickbat, dirty miscreant that you are!