Have a care, Damis; this is sacrilege, no less; what you say amounts to razing the temples and upsetting the altars.
Ob, not all the altars; what harm do they do, so long as incense and perfume is the worst of it? As for Artemis’s altar at Tauri, though, and her hideous feasts, I should like it overturned from base to cornice.
Whence comes this resistless plague among us? ‘There is none of us he spares; he is as free with his tongue as a tub orator,
The innocent? You will not find many of those among us, Zeus. He will soon come to laying hands upon some of the great and eminent, I dare say.