Oh, I recognized it. I also recognized the allusion made by Socrates to the gadfly sent by (I believe) Hera to harass (I believe) Io. I make the disclaimer because, frankly, I'm too tired to look up who sic'ed the gadfly on who and why.

I can see much the same thing down at the Hi-Ho Bar when Squirrel Tooth Alice and The Cowboys' Friend have had too much to drink and get into a hair-pulling and blouse-ripping contest over men, and chase each other out the door and down the street throwing rocks at each other. Hera and Io were just a more genteel version of it, them being goddesses and all.