How we cite our quotes: Line
Quote #7
Move out! You want a whipping? / You want me to jam this up your thoroughbred ass? / Just look at him run! I knew I'd get you moving, / for all your chariot wheels and teams of steeds. (1299-1302)
Uh oh, Strepsiades is threatening to beat people again—this time, it's his son, Pheidippides. He's pretty violent, as you can probably tell.
Quote #8
Help! Help! / Oh neighbors, kinsmen, fellow villagers! / I need your help right now, I'm being beaten! / Oh Lord! My unlucky head! My face! My jaw! / You scum! You'd beat your father? (1321-1324)
Now Strepsiades is having the tables turned on him—his son, Pheidippides is beating him. Oh, karma . . .
Quote #9
You're the one who ought to have been stomped and beaten then and there, / asking me to sing a song, as if you're entertaining crickets! (1359-1360)
Apparently, when Pheidippides was ungrateful and surly at the banquet that Strepsiades threw in his honor after finishing the Thinkery, Strepsiades started to beat him… but Pheidippides thought it should be the other way around and started beating him instead.