Note 158 — XXV.
Ellen Frothingham translation
Nubes, 170–174. Disciple. But he was lately deprived of a great idea by a weasel. Strepsiades. In what way? tell me. Disciple. He was studying the courses of the moon and her revolutions, and, while gazing upward open-mouthed, a weasel in the dark dunged upon him from the roof.