Aristophanes in Clouds [writes]: "but by praying to the gods I will learn." Instead of didaxqh/somai.[1] In this instance it should be understood passively, that is I will be taught. It is [one] of the middles, for it has a passive form, but its meaning is active. For he might say, "I will have my son taught [dida/comai (middle voice)] philosophy," more correctly than "I will teach" [dida/cw (active voice)]. For the teacher will say dida/cw, but the father [will say] dida/comai and [so too will] anyone who sends another to learn. So in this instance it can be the same, so that it is understood "I will send to school – if not my son, then myself." Since the meter did not allow him to say e)mauto\n dida/cas ["teaching myself"], he said "going myself into the think-shop."