text:  It was laughable to see you and to hear you as you brought a battery that could never reach them--fired upon them the reproach of Diogenes to an effeminate--"If he was offended with nature for making him a man and not a woman;" and the affirmation of the Pedasians from your friend Herodotus that whenever any calamity befell them a prodigious beard grew on the chin of the priestess of Minerva