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10430And are there more,replied I,"besides ourselves in the whale?"
10430And how,added he,"got ye hither through the air?"
10430And what are their arms?
10430Have you not got an eagle''s wing?
10430How many may there be?
10430How so?
10430True, but what has that to do with an eye?
10430You are Grecians,said he,"are you not?"
10430A fine sight you must have had; but how did the cities and the men look?
10430After this, need I inform you how he harangued in Armenia, by another Corcyraean orator?
10430As we went along, he asked me several questions about earthly matters, such as,"How much corn is there at present in Greece?
10430How say you?
10430If they eat, as he tells us, nothing but frogs, what use could they have for cheese?
10430Menippus let down from heaven?
10430Need I mention to you their strange opinions concerning the deities?
10430We asked him then what enemies he had, and what the quarrel was about?
10430What are you muttering to yourself, Menippus, talking about the stars, and pretending to measure distances?
10430When I had answered all these,"Pray, Menippus,"said he,"what does mankind really think of me?"
10430and did your cabbages want rain?
10430are the thieves taken that robbed the Dodonaean?"
10430are you daemons of the sea, or unfortunate men, like ourselves?
10430do they think of building up the Olympian temple again?
10430had you a hard winter last year?
10430is any of Phidias''s{ 182} family alive now?
10430said the old man;"and whence come ye?
10430what is the reason that the Athenians have left off sacrificing to me for so many years?
10430{ 20b}"What are you about?"
10430{ 50} What then is in the power of art or instruction to perform?
47242''And how was that?''
47242''But is he in any danger of losing it?''
47242''Did the vulture fly East or West?''
47242''Finally, Proteus arrives in Greece; and what does he do there?
47242''Hermotimus?
47242''How so?''
47242''Just a stroll?''
47242''Pindar once found himself in a similar difficulty with an over- abundant theme: Ismenus?
47242''Proteus,''he cried,''Proteus vain- glorious?
47242''Twas in the crater that Empedocles sought death?''
47242''Twas the thunderbolt, methinks, that slew Asclepius, Dionysus[5]?
47242''What is that?
47242''Who trades in his own wife''s favours?''
47242''Will we have a fine day?''
47242''Yes, what am I to look you at?''
47242--''But how,''I asked,''and why?''
47242Adimantus__ Ly._ Said I not well?
47242Again I ask: do you want your sons to conceive an ambition of this sort?
47242Again, when people use edible things not for food but to get dye out of-- the murex- dyers, for instance-- are they not abusing God''s gifts?
47242Ah, Polemon, so you are back at last; are you well?
47242All that is another''s is mine: for can I not open his doors, put his guards to sleep, and walk in unperceived?
47242Am I mad, that I should forget Myrtium, so soon to become the mother of my child?
47242Am I meaner than Xerxes?
47242And as to''set''and''sit,''surely it is the whole difference between transitive and intransitive?
47242And did n''t I put down a solid drachma for you at the feet of Aphrodite''s statue, when it was her feast the other day?
47242And how is your cupbearer going to hand you a thing of that weight, when he has filled it?
47242And how will you like taking it from him?
47242And if Gods are patriotic, shall not men be more so?
47242And if that were all!--but to- day is harvest festival; and where is his present?
47242And it was she made you cry like that, was it?
47242And no wonder; where else could one find such clear sparkling water?
47242And now that you feel sure of me, and know how I dote on you, what is the consequence?
47242And surely it is a very humiliating circumstance that you should be apt to fall ill, just like ordinary people?
47242And what eye would not delight to feed on joys so varied?
47242And what have they been doing to you exactly?
47242And what is the great river that flows so close beneath the walls?
47242And where do I come in?
47242And who are the men, pray, who hold such language?
47242And will the piebald bull yonder[25], from Memphis, explain what use_ he_ has for a temple, an oracle, or a priest?
47242Antipater__ Ar._ Is it well with you, Antipater?
47242Aristaenetus told him he was quite right to come; would he take a chair and sit behind Histiaeus and Dionysodorus?
47242As far as I remember, he said-- but who comes here in such haste?
47242But how died he?
47242But it ca n''t have been a trifle that drove him away: what was it all about?
47242But leaving them out of the case, do you consider that you have good security for the continuance of your health?
47242But perhaps your case is a very different one; is the light so bright that you can not manage to fix your eyes on the dazzling glory of Demosthenes?
47242But there was Antiphon-- son to Menecrates-- and a whole mina; why not him?
47242But what may it be?''
47242But what point is there in Proteus''s throwing himself into the fire?
47242But what recked Hyperides?
47242But what was the inducement in the present case?
47242But when did you make this discovery?
47242But who are these men?
47242But your father is not dead?
47242But, O King, how had you been the better off, if he had come alive?
47242But_ I_ can not think what he_ finds_ in her; where are his eyes?
47242Cadmus?
47242Can Bacis turn an oracle too, as well as the Sibyl?
47242Choose-- a mighty champion, and loathed, or a confessed liar, and-- Hymnis?
47242Could any contrast be greater than that presented by their words and their deeds?
47242Could there be a more timely warning, balanced as it is by the prospect of abundance held out to him that follows the true method of agriculture?
47242Dazzled by gold and costly gems, how should the beholder do justice to the charms of a clear complexion, to neck, and eye, and arm, and finger?
47242Did I ever displease you?
47242Did they tell you how he brought them here, and all their adventures?
47242Did you ever notice his teeth?
47242Did you ever, among all the nations you passed in your flight, meet with a similar case of mental aberration?
47242Did you get that hay- cock?
47242Do I not live for you alone?
47242Do n''t you know?
47242Do you expect to be eighteen all your life, Musarium?
47242Do you suppose he could not get sheets and shoes, and therefore went as he did?
47242Do you suppose if I wanted to marry I should pass over Demeas''s daughter in favour of Phido''s?
47242Does that imply that, though there is nothing pleasanter, there may be something grander or more divine?
47242Doris__ Myr._ Well, Pamphilus?
47242H. IV_ The Rich to Cronus, Greeting._ Do you really suppose, Sire, that these letters of the poor have gone exclusively to_ your_ address?
47242Had n''t you better see what she is like first?
47242Has he got by?
47242Have we some overweening tyrant, who insults us with his wealth?
47242Have you lost your horns?
47242He laughed:''Why, how will it make things worse for you?''
47242He took up a man who said,''Yes, I can grapple with that,''meaning that he understood, with''Oh, you are going to throw me, are you?
47242Her Mother__ Mother._ You must be mad, Philinna; what_ was_ the matter with you at the dinner last night?
47242Here Zenothemis woke up and thundered out:''Chrysippus?
47242Here are some specimens: What time do you set out on your travels?--What time?
47242How aggravating!--Indeed?
47242How can we possibly keep the feast( they ask), when we are numb with frost and pinched with hunger?
47242How do we hunt our vermin down?
47242How is he going to improve the honest men, without hardening and encouraging the rogues?
47242How should I scorn your Muse?
47242How would he have taken it?
47242How would you like it, if the criminal classes were to profit by his lesson in fortitude, and learn to scorn death, and burning, and so on?
47242I dare say, now, she was very cruel and scornful?
47242I embrace and kiss a man like that?
47242I feel compassion for them, and have chosen you from among all the Gods to heal their ills; for who else should heal them?''
47242I had not brought my sword with me, or you may be sure I should have known what to do with it.--What are you both laughing at?
47242I said;''do you suppose I have kept my picture turned the same way all these years?
47242I should like to know what sort of presents the Bithynian makes you?
47242I should take it kindly of you, sir, if you would tell me whether you_ have_ ever seen Virtue or Fortune or Destiny anywhere?
47242I suppose you have forgotten him?
47242If he were not in love with you, why should he mind your having another lover?
47242If you have not lost a thing, you still have it?
47242Is it a heap?
47242Is it a heap?
47242Is it just a cobweb spun in that jealous little brain of yours?
47242Is it so amusing, Pythias?
47242Is mine weaker?
47242It is useless, of course, to offer gold to the gifted son of Calliope?
47242Let either of them tell me, What is Philosophy?
47242Logic and life, rhetoric and philosophy, popularity and death-- ay, but which?
47242Melia''s distaff golden- bright?
47242More misdeeds of the ignorant herd?
47242Need I enumerate instances?
47242Now begin with telling me what Aristaenetus was giving the banquet for; was it his boy Zeno''s wedding?
47242Now, if a man came to you and said that he had left his wife''s home, would you stand that?
47242Now, if_ you_ will not enlighten me on this subject, who can?
47242Now, what are the facts?
47242Now, what are your feelings when you hear a man deprecating his own merits, and depreciating his friend''s excessive gratitude?
47242Or again, if you hate pleasure and condemn the Epicureans, how comes it that you will do and endure the meanest things for it?
47242Others you may see naked, swimming for their lives; and what was the reef that wrecked them, pray?
47242Pass the cutting off the wretched Paphlagonian''s head, what did you want to spike it on a spear for, and let the blood run down on you?
47242Perhaps you consider that a stiffish dose of hellebore would serve the turn?
47242Perhaps you think it a trifle always to win at dice, and be able to count on the sice when the ace is the best the others can throw?
47242Pray tell me, do you not call extravagance a vice?
47242Purist__ Ly._ Are you the man whose scent is so keen for a blunder, and who is himself blunder- proof?
47242Shall I call evidence?
47242Shall we have another match on the old lines?
47242Shall we try to find the answers?
47242Shall we wait for him here, or do you think I had better go back on board?
47242So I said How d''ye do, and then asked,''Do tell me, Parmenon, how you got on; have you made anything to repay you for all your fighting?''
47242So- and- so is a tribes- man of mine.--Oh, you are a savage, are you?
47242Somewhere in Greece, of course?
47242Suppose I were to return you evil for evil?
47242Take it at the best; let all endure for ages: what will it profit your senseless clay?
47242The fellow is a boozy.--Oh, Boozy was his mother''s name, was it?
47242The general opinion clearly was that he was an impudent rogue, and various people struck in with what came to hand:''What, Menelaus, art distraught?''
47242The land is consequently uninhabited; savage, dried up, barren, droughty, how should it support life?
47242The patrimonial income supplies me well enough.--Patrimonial?
47242Thebe''s dark circlet?
47242Then how is Proteus going to draw the line?
47242There was a general laugh; upon which,''You vile scum,''says he,''you laugh, do you, because I invoke our God Heracles as I toast the bride?
47242These are riddles, Archias; you took him alive, and you have him not?
47242They went to law, but were compounded.--You do n''t say they did n''t get apart again?
47242This was how I began to Parmenon:''Did you and your master''s ears burn, Parmenon?''
47242Three Runaway Slaves.__ Apol._ Father, is this true, about a man''s publicly throwing himself upon a pyre, at the Olympian Games?
47242Used mortals to play draughts in your time?
47242Was it for this that he suffered bondage in Syria?
47242Was that a woman''s voice, reciting Homer?
47242Was there anything to be got by jumping on to a pyre, and being converted to cinders?
47242Welcome, my musical friend: you have not forgotten Heracles, I hope?
47242Well, I suppose there may be fools and empty- headed enthusiasts in India as elsewhere?
47242Well, and who were the guests?
47242Well, do you know what a historian is?
47242Well, now what are we to do?
47242Well, why do n''t you speak?
47242Well?
47242What avail ashes and urns, if I have not Demosthenes?
47242What can we call this but a drunken freak?
47242What do I know about brides, ugly or pretty?
47242What do you mean?
47242What do you recommend, Lycinus?
47242What faults have you to find, Lycinus?
47242What girl would look at a man who likes such nastiness-- let alone drink or sleep with him?
47242What have I ever done to you?
47242What is coming?
47242What is the meaning of it all?
47242What is to be looked for from people whose worship is of Dionysus, whose life is in feasting and dancing?
47242What is to prevent one single ring from doing all the work?
47242What is your opinion of this gentleman?
47242What names am I to say, Philosophy?
47242What orator would not feel that his credit was at stake, and be fired with ambition to surpass himself, rather than be found wanting to his theme?
47242What other end had Heracles?
47242What remains to tell?
47242What say you, friends?
47242What should you say to that?
47242What value can one attach to a man whom one''s nose would identify for one of those minions?
47242What was I to do?
47242What was the good of this multitude of wonderful cups, he wanted to know, when earthenware would serve the purpose?
47242What, make the story public?
47242What, no answer?
47242What, nothing to say for yourself?
47242What, then, I am an interloper too, am I?
47242What, then, should a man of sense do, when he finds one friend''s virtue pitted against another''s truth?
47242What?
47242What_ have_ you done?
47242What_ is_ it all about, Charmides?
47242When some one described his sick servant as undergoing torture, he asked,''What for?
47242Whence, and whither?''
47242White- armed Harmonia''s bridal?--Ay, but which?
47242Whither, I wonder, goes this mighty host, issuing from Arcadia?
47242Who are to be the first victims?
47242Who dares name the word?
47242Who has been telling you all this?
47242Who knows?
47242Who was it they all compared me to, Chenidas?
47242Why are you crying, child?
47242Why go about with your left hand loaded,--a ring to every finger?
47242Why_ is_ it all?
47242Yes?
47242You do n''t suppose he will remember tears and kisses and vows, with five talents of dowry to distract him?
47242You mean to say you are_ not_ going to be married?
47242You seem like one rapt in contemplation; you are pondering on matters of no light import?
47242You surely find him a more temperate and better man than the other?
47242You would be there, no doubt,--when that old man burnt himself?
47242[ 19] All this your Demosthenes endured, and who knows not what an orator it made of him?
47242_ Ad._ How so?
47242_ Ad._ Who begins?
47242_ Ant._ And he has died on the way?
47242_ Ant._ And it was indeed--?
47242_ Ant._ And what hearing did he give them?
47242_ Ant._ Ay?
47242_ Ant._ Ha?
47242_ Ant._ Ha?
47242_ Ant._ What mean you?
47242_ Ant._ Why took you him not alive?
47242_ Apol._ But what was his object, father?
47242_ Apol._ Oh?
47242_ Ar._ How?
47242_ Ar._ Was it not your charge that we should use no force at first?
47242_ Ba._ But you_ did_ know Hermotimus, I suppose?
47242_ Ch._ Go on slapping me?
47242_ Ch._ Is that the only way to tell?
47242_ Che._ Shall I tell her you lied to make her think you a fine fellow?
47242_ Che._ Why, who should it be?
47242_ Co._ Is the man mad?
47242_ Cro._ That conceited shepherd[11]?
47242_ Cy._ A man''s sufficiency is that which meets his necessities; will that do?
47242_ Cy._ And do you think my feet walk worse than yours, or than the average man''s?
47242_ Cy._ And economy a virtue?
47242_ Cy._ And want occurs when the supply falls short of necessity-- does not meet the need?
47242_ Cy._ But now, pray, what is the purpose of the protection, in turn?
47242_ Cy._ Clothing-- what is that for?
47242_ Cy._ Do you see, or must I explain?
47242_ Cy._ Is he temperate?
47242_ Cy._ Oh, yes; look at it this way; what have feet to do?
47242_ Cy._ That brings us to the questions, What is want, and what is sufficiency?
47242_ Cy._ Then do you think my feet are in worse condition than yours?
47242_ Cy._ Then, if you find me living economically, and others extravagantly, why blame me instead of them?
47242_ Cy._ Well, consider the purpose of anything we require; the purpose of a house is protection?
47242_ Cy._ Well, the rest of my body, then?
47242_ Do._ And how do you like him for a lover?
47242_ First Master._ Ha, Cantharus, have I got you?
47242_ First Master._ So tragic?
47242_ First Master._ Why, what is all this about?
47242_ Gly._ Yes, dear; is n''t it_ horrid_ of her?
47242_ Her._ And why is that?
47242_ Her._ Does none of you know anything about this other?
47242_ Her._ How am I to understand that?
47242_ Her._ Straight to Thrace, then?
47242_ Her._ Very good; and what comes next?
47242_ Her._ Yes, come along, and we will polish off a few to- day.--Which way, Philosophy?
47242_ Her._ Yes?
47242_ Innkeeper._ Why, the Three- headed Dog is a book, master?
47242_ Jo._ Shut him out?
47242_ Jo._ Why not?
47242_ Le._ Such a coward, girl?
47242_ Ly._ And if a person were to use''interchange''there instead of''exchange,''what would you take him to mean?
47242_ Ly._ And if you caught him committing a solecism, would you stand it?
47242_ Ly._ And the fancy?
47242_ Ly._ And what lover would not have been jealous?
47242_ Ly._ But what would you have me do?
47242_ Ly._ By the way, do you know of any one who is on the look in for a wife?
47242_ Ly._ Can it be a love affair?
47242_ Ly._ Charinus?
47242_ Ly._ Do I understand that you are proof?
47242_ Ly._ Do you also see that the exchange of one for the other is a solecism?
47242_ Ly._ Have you realized on what a slender thread all this wealth depends?
47242_ Ly._ How about that last?
47242_ Ly._ How did''one are''get past you?
47242_ Ly._ How do you make that out?
47242_ Ly._ I suppose one must be blunder- proof, to detect the man who is not so?
47242_ Ly._ Is there such a person?
47242_ Ly._ Monstrous sly, is it not, to say''mutual''instead of''joint''?
47242_ Ly._ Not sure?
47242_ Ly._ Now, can you tell me the difference between''setting''and''sitting,''or between''be seated''and''sit''?
47242_ Ly._ Or the only way you can learn?
47242_ Ly._ Outrageous?
47242_ Ly._ Perhaps one at a time are too few?
47242_ Ly._ Pythias?
47242_ Ly._ Then, as you can not feel the difference between''deprecate''and''depreciate,''shall we conclude that you are an ignoramus?
47242_ Ly._ Well, shall you be able to detect a culprit, and convict him if he denies it?
47242_ Ly._ Well, what is to happen, if you can not follow now?
47242_ Ly._ Well?
47242_ Ly._ What do I want with a wish?
47242_ Ly._ What, not observed''broad open''?
47242_ Ly._ What?
47242_ Ly._ Why, how can they be equivalent?
47242_ Masters._ Indeed, madam?
47242_ Me._ What was her fee?
47242_ Mo._ Have I your permission to speak, sir?
47242_ Mother._ But what about kissing Lamprias?
47242_ Mother._ They do n''t all find it so hard to get round their fathers; why ca n''t he get a slave to wheedle him?
47242_ Mu._ Oh well, mother, are the rest of them happier or better- looking than I am?
47242_ Myr._ Well, and when you sailed again, did n''t I give you that waistcoat, that you might have something to wear when you were rowing?
47242_ Pa._ Are you mad, or what is the matter with you?
47242_ Pa._ How much more nonsense are you going to talk about shipowners and marriages?
47242_ Pa._ Oh, Dorcas, what_ am_ I to do?
47242_ Pa._ Oh, what will become of me?
47242_ Pa._ Well; and you did?
47242_ Pa._ What shall I do, Dorcas?
47242_ Pa._ What, straight off like that?
47242_ Phi._ And who may you be, good sir?
47242_ Phi._ Dionicus the doctor had told him, he said;_ he_ was one of you, was he not?
47242_ Phi._ Heracles, who is this comely person with a lyre?
47242_ Phi._ I know; a fine lad; only a lad, though; old enough to marry?
47242_ Phi._ The usual thing, I suppose-- a panegyric on the bride, or an epithalamium?
47242_ Phi._ Well, my dear, where is that wine?
47242_ Po._ Polemon, deme Stiria, tribe Pandionis; will that do for you?
47242_ Po._ Who is this person coming to you?
47242_ Pr._ But what possessed you to abdicate?
47242_ Pr._ First, then, is the common story true?
47242_ Pur._ Again?
47242_ Pur._ But what have I to do with solecists on the look in for wives?
47242_ Pur._ Feelings?
47242_ Pur._ How can that be, before you have opened your lips?
47242_ Pur._ How could I call myself educated, if I made blunders at my age?
47242_ Pur._ Namely--?
47242_ Pur._ Three?
47242_ Pur._ Well?
47242_ Pur._ What_ are_ you talking about?
47242_ Pur._ Why, what may the difference be?
47242_ Pur._ Would it?
47242_ Pur._ You are joking, of course?
47242_ Sa._ Are you going to show the white feather too, Adimantus, now that the danger is near?--Timolaus, what is your advice?
47242_ Sa._ Well, tell me what you think of mine?
47242_ Sa._ You see when it was we lost him, Lycinus?
47242_ Sa.__ O sancta simplicitas!_ Did you think that you were at Athens all this time?
47242_ Second Master._ Ha, you rascal there, am I mistaken, or are you my lost Lecythio?
47242_ Ti._ Well, Lycinus, what do you expect?
47242_ Try._ And the tears were all for her?
47242_ Try._ Had you a full view of her, or did you just see her face and as much as a woman of forty- five likes to show?
47242_ Try._ Is this recent?
47242_ Try._ Well, which are you going to trust-- her word, or your own eyes?
47242_ Try._ Which?
47242_ You_ are very proud of your eulogy on Homer; and is Demosthenes a light matter to_ me_?''
47242_ Zeus._ Oh, it''s the philosophers who have been misbehaving themselves?
47242_ Zeus._ Then if it is neither the philosophers nor the common people, who is it that you complain of?
47242a man of mature years riding about on a finger- ring, moving whole mountains with a touch; bald and snub- nosed, yet the desire of all eyes?
47242a repetition of the Socrates and Anytus affair?
47242and I am to let him outrage my feelings just for that?
47242and did she steal away Zeus, and give you a stone to swallow for a baby?
47242and going across and embracing him?
47242and how did they receive you at your first descent?
47242and how shall I describe them?
47242and that Mede there, Mithras, with the candys and tiara?
47242and what brings you here, away from the world?
47242and what is the trouble now?
47242and what were they?
47242because a pretender like Hetoemocles comes short of his profession, you argue from him to the real sages, to Cleanthes and Zeno?
47242column?
47242did you hear that?
47242do you remember?
47242ever look at any other man?
47242give a full description of what men do in their cups?
47242great Bacchus''merry fame?
47242has he never found out how thin her hair is?
47242he has given you up, and taken her in your place?
47242he left life for want of belief in my promises?
47242he was not there; what can he know about it?
47242how do your pipes come to be broken?
47242how they were saved by a star?
47242how?''
47242is he a man of sense?
47242is that all?
47242is that it?
47242is that true?
47242it is a treat to hear him when he sings and tries to make himself agreeable; what is it they tell me about an ass that would learn the lyre?
47242never a word of how Polemon had talked or thought of me, or prayed he might find me alive?
47242or how long has it been going on?
47242or should I have made him my right- hand man in the management of Greece and of the empire?
47242or that Chaereas will be of the same mind when he has his fortune, and his mother finds a marriage that will bring him another?
47242or the other, the one they call The Trap?
47242or was it just a drunken freak?
47242or, not to go beyond the merest elements, how does_ condition_ differ from_ constitution?
47242so poor of heart?
47242take it quietly and make her words seem true and let her be queen?
47242that he forgave his country a debt of a million odd?
47242that he was cast out of Rome,--he whose brilliance exceeds the Sun, fit rival of the Lord of Olympus?
47242that is surely Adimantus?
47242the all- daring might Of Heracles?
47242the old gentleman deserved a better fate?
47242the race from dragon''s teeth that came?
47242there are two of them; one in Piraeus, who has only just come there; Damyllus the governor''s son is in love with her; is it that one?
47242used you to eat the children Rhea bore you?
47242was Demosthenes not our enemy of enemies?
47242was there ever a juster man than Aristides?
47242what do they suppose they are going to get out of him?''
47242what do you mean?''
47242what does it aggravate?
47242what is it?
47242what would it be if I saw the thing done, and the blood, and the bodies lying there?
47242why not tell his mother he will go off for a soldier if she does n''t let him have some money?
47242you do not suppose he knew anything worth knowing about me?
47242you name that name?
6585''And after that, whither will you go?''
6585''And did you see how he shovelled his food down, hand over hand?
6585''And how armed?''
6585''And how did you traverse this vast space of air?''
6585''And how many years will you sojourn and prophesy among us?''
6585''And of what use can he be to you in Pontus?''
6585''And what are these vexations?''
6585''Another, different from the former one?
6585''Dinias?''
6585''How comes it, sir, that you know me?''
6585''I was otherwise engaged,''said Megalonymus;''know you not that it was a lawless day and a dumb?
6585''Well,''said I,''paid he the penalty in some wise, or showed a clean pair of heels?''
6585''What is this you say, Eudemus?''
6585''What may their numbers be, all told?''
6585''What shall I be after this life?''
6585''What, Dion the effeminate, the libertine, the debauchee, the mastich- chewer, the too susceptible to amorous sights?''
6585''What,''said I,''are there other inhabitants?''
6585''Who was the king of the Achaeans?''
6585''You are surely Anacharsis, the son of Daucetas?''
6585A tyrant''s death?
6585Again there would have been a flaw in my claim?
6585Alone, did I say?
6585Am I to have no credit for all that is done?
6585And do you then claim to have the use of my skill, the absolute control of what was acquired independently?
6585And first tell me-- do you allow learners to criticize, if they find difficulties in your doctrines, or must juniors abstain from that?
6585And from that little taste you could have answered for the quality of the whole?
6585And how shall this remnant of tyranny be punished?
6585And pray what is the difference between killing him and causing his death?
6585And shall they now?
6585And the reproach?
6585And then if you recover, must I look for another restitution?
6585And thou, Lexiphanes, comest thou, or tarriest here?''
6585And what if he were a villain?
6585And what is that?
6585And what is the end of it all?
6585And what other channel is there, into which their energies could be directed?
6585And who is the cause of it all?
6585And why did I leave my sword in the wound, if not because I foresaw the very thing that would happen?
6585And why?
6585And will you yet make a mystery of it to your friend, and let him be lost with the vulgar herd?
6585And you have not yet sweated and travelled enough?
6585Another of my questions was about the so- called spurious lines; had he written them, or not?
6585Are there not lofty tragedy and brilliant comedy,--things that have been deemed worthy of state recognition?
6585Are these wounds?
6585Are you the only man who has found the truth, and are all the people who go in for philosophy fools?
6585As for his hitting his mother or seducing girls, what have I to do with that?
6585At length the old man spoke:--''What are you, strangers; are you spirits of the sea, or unfortunate mortals like ourselves?
6585Because you were ill, and I was at such pains to restore you, does that make you the owner of my art?
6585Both these pleas, then, being excluded, what is left me but to confess that I have no sound defence to make?
6585But how?
6585But in philosophy-- the Stoic, for instance-- how will the part reveal the other parts to you, or how can you conclude that they are beautiful?
6585But is there indeed Happiness up there-- and worth all the pains?
6585But perhaps that is not so easily done?
6585But suppose you come upon it first or second, what will you do then?
6585But the fox came up and said to him:''Why vex yourself, good sir, over the past ones?
6585But the truth, I presume, is bound to be in one of them, and not in all, as they differ?
6585But what are your hopes in pursuing philosophy, then?
6585But what is the function of professional advice?
6585But what of that?
6585But when we find them( to use the expression of a famous orator)''faring like men that are sick,''what conclusion is then left to us to draw?
6585But who has ever heard before of our putting an offering to the vote, or hindering men from paying sacrifice?
6585But who_ was_ my victim?
6585By next Olympiad, then?
6585Can you not hear classical music performed at the great festivals?
6585Confine your attention to this one question: does any of our oppressors survive?
6585Consider: are your duties any lighter than those of a Dromo or a Tibius?
6585Content?
6585Could I not have provided for myself better than this, and preserved liberty and free- will into the bargain?
6585Could anything be more absurd?
6585Could you have said the hand was a man''s, if you had never known or seen a man?
6585Could you state on oath that they have?
6585Democracy is restored: what more can you demand from him who restored it?
6585Did I get into some disreputable brawl?
6585Did I stay out o''nights, sir?
6585Did any such complaint reach you?
6585Did he tell you the Stoics were the best of men, and send you to their school?
6585Did you ever have a seat close by the judges?
6585Did you ever see them behaving like your master, as I described him to you just now?
6585Did you never meet a plain- dealer to give you a dose of candour?
6585Do we propose to abandon the temple for the law- court?
6585Do you charge me with untimely drinkings and revellings?
6585Do you count it no shame to be pitted against toadies and vulgar parasites?
6585Do you know the story of the great Cnidian architect?
6585Do you prefer a suit for ill health?
6585Do you suppose his interest in such things is selfish?
6585Do you suppose the Platonists, Pythagoreans, Epicureans, and other schools, will let that pass?
6585Do you think it impossible they may all be deluded, and the truth be something which none of them has yet found?
6585Do your praises halt?
6585Does any one claim it?
6585Does any one else know anything of this sword?
6585Does he pooh- pooh your efforts?
6585Does it not amount to that, when your school reckon goodness the only end, and the Epicureans pleasure?
6585For all these toils will you be content with your one day?
6585For instance?
6585For what fate does he reserve me, who am dead already in thy death, O my son?
6585For who would not be deterred at the thought that the God accepts no offering without the previous sanction of his priests?
6585Frigid?
6585Give me figures; how many more of them than of Epicureans, Platonists, Peripatetics?
6585Had I better turn craven, face right- about, confess my sin, and have recourse to the regular plea of Chance, Fate, Necessity?
6585Has any man a prior claim?
6585Has not the reward of tyrannicide been paid before now to him who merely expelled a tyrant?
6585Have I been wanting here?
6585Have I lacked courage?
6585Have I not earned my reward?
6585Have I shrunk back at the prospect of the dangers through which I must pass?
6585Have you never a friend or relation or well- wisher?
6585He may slight your intercessions on my behalf?''
6585Here is a specimen: Who is''t, thou askst, that with Calligenia All secretly defiles thy nuptial bed?
6585How can a man try all the roads, when, as you said, he will be unable to escape from the first of them?
6585How can it possibly be?
6585How can you tell that its holder is the bye till you have been all round and found no counterpart to it?
6585How can you tell?
6585How could you have known the whole of his doctrines from the first taste, then?
6585How could you possibly discern the true philosopher from the false, then, by the marks you mentioned?
6585How do you mean?
6585How do you mean?
6585How else should it have befallen me?
6585How else, Hermotimus?
6585How long has it taken you?
6585How much did the stock of my surgery cost you?
6585How much higher and more slippery, pray, is the peak on which your Virtue dwells than that Aornos crag which Alexander stormed in a few days?
6585How should it be otherwise?
6585How should you hope to rank with the minister of Love''s pleasures, with the stealthy conveyer of billets- doux?
6585How?
6585However, granting as much as you like that these are the right tests, what is a blind man to do, if he wants to take up philosophy?
6585I dare say he recommends different philosophers to different persons, according to their individual needs?
6585I did not slay the tyrant; I have not fulfilled the requirements of the statute; there is a flaw in my claim.--And what more does he want of me?
6585I put in;''Who is Dinias?''
6585I suppose they think they are conferring a favour on us with their wordy stuff?''
6585I suppose, Hermotimus, you have often been at athletic meetings?
6585I trust my master''s word; and he knows well; is he not on the topmost height?
6585If not, what can have induced them to enlarge on these rudiments to the tune of a hundred or a thousand volumes apiece?
6585If then the tyrant is slain, how can you withhold the reward from him who occasioned his death?
6585If you are known to be an admirable performer by persons who are themselves universally known and admired, what have you to do with public opinion?
6585If you have seen them, you are just as bad as I am; and if not, are you justified in censuring them?
6585If you want amusements, are there not a thousand things_ worth_ seeing and hearing?
6585In that case, what are we to do?
6585Indeed, and do you make that a charge against me?
6585Indeed?
6585Is he any use?
6585Is he punished?
6585Is it wronging you to say that you hunt the shadow or the snake''s dead slough, and neglect the solid body or the creeping thing itself?
6585Is that the meaning?''
6585Is there reward for this?
6585Is this death?
6585It is possible, I suppose, that one may be right?
6585Its author might fairly say to you, sir:_ If your son was vicious and deserved to be disinherited, what were you about to recall him?
6585Laymen, then?
6585Lending money and clamouring for payment, losing their tempers in philosophic debates, and making other exhibitions of themselves?
6585Let us not chop logic as to the manner and circumstances of his death, but rather ask: has he ceased to exist, and am I the cause?
6585Live?
6585Lord, what is this?
6585May I claim some credit for this, or do you still require his blood?
6585Might this be a case for, Steep plunge from crags into the teeming deep?
6585Must entreaty be added?
6585Must not all men yearn to belong to a State like that, and never count the toil of getting there, nor lose heart over the time it takes?
6585Must we withdraw our previous admission, that no one can choose the best out of many without trying all?
6585My present life has been another''s: do I look to have a new life which shall be my own?''
6585Not so fast; what in the world does it matter to him, if they do not pay up?
6585Not their rivals, I suppose?
6585Now is it likely that one who is so benevolent to strangers should deal unjustly with his fellow citizens?
6585Now tell me, did you ever buy wine?
6585Now what is their claim to be set over our heads?
6585Now, Crato,--you talk of pantomimes and theatres,--have you seen these performances yourself, that you are so hard on them?
6585Now, are their doctrines the same, or different?
6585Now, is there only one road to philosophy-- the Stoic way?
6585O ho, conduits-- that is your subject, is it?
6585Oh, do tell me what he says about it; what is Happiness like?
6585Oh, why but that I could cry like a baby?
6585Or perhaps these are trifles, so long as the dress is decent, the beard long, and the hair close- cropped?
6585Or what sort of a hive could ever keep together such a swarm of lop- sided monstrosities?
6585Or will you tell me this might do well enough for one of the common herd, but you can not have_ me_ sheltering myself so?
6585Outside are the gilt edges and the purple cover: and within?
6585Perhaps we can do without a name?
6585Remove from these men''s minds the gold and the silver, with the cares that these involve, and what remains?
6585Say, is it unreasonable in such a case to allow my claim?
6585Say, why should we change the old- established usage in regard to offerings?
6585Say: did I flinch?
6585Seest, then, thy true course?
6585Shall I concede that this is the sum of my achievements?
6585Shall I extol your intelligence, or would you rather I explained to you my own poor idea, which differs?
6585Shall I sit quietly on the brink of destruction, exercising clemency and long- suffering as heretofore?
6585Shall I tell you a plea for philosophy which I lately heard?
6585Shall an ass affect the lyre?
6585Shall he interpret the laws as he will against his benefactor?
6585Shall we deduct a quarter of that, and say a hundred and fifty will do?
6585Shall we put it, that the tyrant has escaped, and lives?
6585Should you not have considered that the owner of a weapon so public- spirited was entitled to honour and reward?
6585Should you not have recompensed him, and inscribed his name among those of your benefactors; consecrated his sword, and worshipped it as a God?
6585So they too keep their philosopher, their orator, or their_ litterateur_; and give him audience-- when, think you?
6585So you know how they arrange ties for the wrestling or the pancratium?
6585Tell me, did you ever meet a man who said twice two was seven or eleven?
6585That may be; but about these twenty years-- have you your master''s promise that you will live so long?
6585The due connexion between the various dishes which make their appearance is beyond you: which ought you to take first?
6585The increased bitterness of such a death would have counted for nothing with you?
6585The king surveyed us, and, forming his conclusions from our dress,''Strangers,''said he,''you are Greeks, are you not?''
6585The son, perhaps, caused you no uneasiness; he was no despot, no grievous oppressor?
6585Then, Philo, how shall we class the historians who indulge in poetical phraseology?
6585There is no other road to philosophy?
6585This was, When will Alexander''s imposture be detected?
6585To follow and join philosophic forces with whomsoever you first fall in with, and let him thank Fortune for his proselyte?
6585Very well, which shall we start with?
6585Was I extravagant?
6585Was that a smile?
6585Was there no other way?
6585We are provided for the future, then, with an infallible rule and balance, guaranteed by Hermotimus?
6585We thought selection without experiment a method of inquiry savouring more of divination than of judgement, did we not?
6585Well now, what is the idea of your piece?
6585Well then, can you name me a man who has tried every road in philosophy?
6585Well then, we have got to live a hundred years, and go through all this trouble?
6585Well, Lycinus?
6585Well, and later on what fault has my father to find?
6585Well, but tell me; when Phidias saw the claw, would he ever have known it for a lion''s, if he had never seen a lion?
6585Well, did you go to every wine vault in town, one after another, tasting and comparing?
6585Well, do n''t you think it will be a troublesome business to distinguish the first, and know them from the ignorant professors?
6585Well, if these will not do, what_ are_ the good things he offers to those who carry their course right through?
6585Well, well; are we to give up philosophy, then, and idle our lives away like the common herd?
6585Well, what am I to plead?
6585Well, when a small man came on in the character of Hector, they cried out with one voice:''Here is Astyanax; and where is Hector?''
6585Well?
6585Were lupines and wild herbs so scarce with you?
6585Were our original expectations from philosophy at all of a different nature, by the way?
6585Were you favoured like Chaerephon with a revelation from Apollo?
6585What I mean is this: was it not from admiration of their_ spirit_ that you joined them, expecting to have your own spirit purified?
6585What are Anacharsis and Toxaris doing here to- day in Macedonia, bringing Solon with them too, poor old gentleman, all the way from Athens?
6585What attention or filial duty did I omit?
6585What but this, that here again they have been misled, the very evil which they sold their liberty to escape remaining as it was?
6585What can I do to make myself known all over Greece?
6585What can it be?
6585What do you mean?
6585What do you mean?
6585What fault have we to find with the ancient custom, that we should propose innovations?
6585What for?
6585What further occasion for the law?
6585What had I to fear, when once the stronger of our oppressors was slain?
6585What have I said to justify that?
6585What if I had killed one of his guards, some underling, some favourite domestic?
6585What if the outcast should take to rehearsing in public the tragedy that he has got by heart?
6585What is it?
6585What is the good of answering your questions?
6585What is the matter with him, Lycinus?
6585What is the use of a light that is to be hidden under a bushel?
6585What must be his qualifications?
6585What need to drink the whole cask, when you can judge the quality of the whole from one little taste?
6585What prospect does he hold out?
6585What resemblance is there?
6585What say you, Theognis?
6585What say you, gentlemen?
6585What say you?
6585What scrupulousness is this-- to concern yourself with the manner of his end, while you are enjoying the freedom that results from it?
6585What shall we do, then?
6585What was the test you applied_ then_?
6585What we are taught to do is first of all to ascertain whether the disease is curable or incurable-- has it passed beyond our control?
6585What will the total come to, if we assume only ten schools?
6585What would my enemy say to that?
6585What would this be but sheer imbecility?
6585What, in God''s name, is my glorious recompense?
6585What, our exquisite with his essay?
6585When you evil entreat your benefactor, you are wronging nature; now I ask, do you wrong the laws as well as nature?
6585Where dined you yesterday?
6585Where in the world can you have raked up all this rubbish from?
6585Where is my sword?
6585Where is the assassin?
6585Where is your multitude, with knowledge and experience_ of all_?
6585Where shall we find the skein?
6585Where will you find a theatre or circus large enough to admit the whole nation as your audience?
6585Where_ shall_ we put you, then?
6585Which do you mean?
6585Which had the victory, though, he or Euthydemus-- if Midas said anything about that?
6585Which?
6585Who could conceivably go through all the stages I have rehearsed?
6585Who had it before him?
6585Who is to be our Ariadne?
6585Who shall be my_ multum in parvo_?''
6585Who took it up into the citadel?
6585Whom, indeed, could I substitute in your place, and hope to preserve a reputation for sanity?
6585Whose credit is highest with his neighbours?
6585Why are you dumb?
6585Why did not they make you a Tithonus for years and durability?
6585Why did you assume that that was the only true one, which would set you on the straight road to Virtue, while the rest all opened on blind alleys?
6585Why do you say that?
6585Why have him home again?
6585Why no answer, Hermotimus?
6585Why not just hold a private inquiry, you and I, whether philosophy is what I say it is?
6585Why suspend the law''s operation?
6585Why this obstinate silence?
6585Why, in that book of instructions which you all receive from the Emperor, is not the first recommendation to take care of your health?
6585Why,_ this_ is the matter; do n''t you hear?
6585Why?
6585Will you look on while he makes war upon nature?
6585Will you mention the fees you paid?
6585Will you say at once, Here is the bye?
6585Would it not have been thought a great thing, to go up and dispatch the tyrant''s friend within his own walls, in the midst of his armed attendants?
6585Would life be worth living, to the man who should be judged unworthy to offer sacrifice?
6585Would you listen to the clear melody of flute and pipe?
6585Would you revel in sweet song?
6585You agree?
6585You and I have both travelled far to see these things: you will not suffer me to depart without seeing them?''
6585You are to''consider everything as your own''; there, surely, is something solid?
6585You know the Heracleot, quite an old pupil of his in philosophy by this time-- red- haired-- likes an argument?
6585You observe how indispensable it all is to the history; without the scene, how could we have comprehended the action?
6585You understand me?
6585am I his keeper?_ A dignified defence of philosophy for an old man!
6585and was she as discreet as Odysseus had been used to vaunt her?
6585are we not free men?
6585are we so hard- mouthed, so untongued?
6585bare my throat to the sword?
6585come to the very door, and then turn back?
6585did I not ascend into the citadel?
6585did I not slay?
6585did they contemplate anything beyond a more decent behaviour than the average?
6585do we hear a tyrant''s threats?
6585do you withhold it?
6585does he think you will be on the top next year-- by the Great Mysteries, or the Panathenaea, say?
6585does it not savour of over- confidence, to condemn what you know nothing about?
6585had the springs ceased to give their wonted supply, that you were brought to such a pass?
6585have we a master?
6585how is he to find the man whose principles are right, when he can not see his appearance or gait?
6585if their strangeness had not produced the panic, where should we have been?''
6585is he prophet as well as philosopher?
6585is it not almost a State document?
6585is it not to be supposed that the provocation has been unusually great?
6585is there any ground for anxiety, any vestige of our past misery?
6585not one of_ them_ right either?
6585or again when you say everything is material, and Plato recognizes an immaterial element also in all that exists?
6585or can we halve it?
6585or do you decide that they are''foul mire''without personal experience?
6585or is it a soothsayer or Chaldean expert that you trust?
6585or were you confident in your own unaided discrimination?
6585or when they have once got up, must they stay there, conversing with Virtue, and smiling at wealth and glory and pleasure?
6585or would some Ethiopian elder remark, How do you know, my confident friend?
6585says I;''You would exact mutation from us?
6585see my nearest and dearest slaughtered before my eyes?
6585they tell me there are a great many other philosophers; is that so?
6585those who have been by which road, and under whose guidance?
6585was it not a_ dignus vindice nodus_?
6585wealth, glory, pleasures incomparable?
6585what do you advise, my counsel?
6585what his previous training?
6585what his studies?
6585what his subsidiary accomplishments?
6585when are you to be up?
6585which next?
6585who has wrought the change?
6585why seek to deprive me of a people''s gratitude?
6585will it avail me to say I trusted my friend Hermotimus?
6585with Onomacritus?''
6585you have never been in foreign parts, nor had any experience of other nations._ Shall I tell him the old man''s question was justified?
6829''A lion''s skin?''
6829''Ah, talking of superstition, now,''says Eucrates,''that reminds me: what do you make of oracles, for instance, and omens?
6829''And what is to be our course?''
6829''And what were the spirits doing?''
6829''And what,''Arignotus next asked,''is the subject of your learned conversation?
6829''And you can actually make a man out of a pestle to this day?''
6829''Ask one of these brawling bawling censors, And what do_ you_ do?
6829''Confound it, sir,''he might exclaim,''what is the noise about?
6829''Do you suppose,''asked Eucrates,''that he is the only man who has seen such things?
6829''Doing?
6829''Doubt the word of Eucrates, the learned son of Dino?
6829''Have you never noticed as you came in that beautiful one in the court, by Demetrius the portrait- sculptor?''
6829''How long is this to go on?''
6829''In other words, you do not believe in the existence of the Gods, since you maintain that cures can not be wrought by the use of holy names?''
6829''Ion,''said I,''about that one who was so old: did the ambassador snake give him an arm, or had he a stick to lean on?''
6829''Of course I do; but what have wings and eyes to do with one another?''
6829''Oh, you keep a man, do you?''
6829''Perhaps it is the pitchy darkness of the infernal regions that runs in your head?
6829''Perhaps,''I suggested,''it is not Pelichus at all, but Talos the Cretan, the son of Minos?
6829''Twas at the Saturnalia, the day I made that pease- pudding, with the two slices of sausage in it?
6829''Unconsciously, then; what is it?''
6829''Well,''said the proconsul,''I pardon him this time at your request; but if he offends again, what shall I do to him?''
6829''What are we coming to?''
6829''What do you think of my play, Demonax?''
6829''What herds, what waggons have you, Arsacomas?''
6829''What is this I hear?''
6829''What liar took you in like that, sir?''
6829''What of Otus and Ephialtes now?''
6829''What should they be, Lord, but those of absolute reverence, as to the King of all Gods?''
6829''What statue is this?''
6829''What was that about, Arignotus?''
6829''What will you have?''
6829''What, Tychiades,''says Cleodemus, with a faint grin,''you do n''t believe these remedies are good for anything?''
6829''What,''I exclaimed,''you saw this Hyperborean actually flying and walking on water?''
6829''What,''said he,''is my country expecting me to do my duty?''
6829''When are those hecatombs coming?''
6829''Who told you I was a philosopher?''
6829''Why did he not make you a Greek instead?''
6829''Why no more ambrosia?''
6829''Why, you know that you have on an eagle''s right wing?''
6829''Will it surprise you to learn that I am a fellow- craftsman?''
6829), and who wanted people to go for five years without speaking?
6829... No answer?
6829A doctor?
6829A man is saved by art, not by the absence of it?
6829A mathematician?
6829After all, it is natural enough: what should you do but admire these trifles?
6829Again, I suppose you will pass Aristippus of Cyrene as a distinguished philosopher?
6829Again, did not Aristogiton, poor and of mean extraction, as Thucydides describes him, sponge on Harmodius?
6829Ah, Anacharsis, if the love of fair fame were to be wiped out of our lives, what good would remain?
6829Ah, and what are the prizes, now?
6829Ah, yes, tell me about him: they say he is your son?
6829All these effects, and no effecting Providence?
6829All this was food for laughter, as well it might be, to the Indians and their king: Take the field?
6829Am I not even in sleep to find a refuge from Poverty, Poverty more vile than your vile self?
6829Am I not the Sun?
6829And I?
6829And did you like being a man best, or receiving the addresses of Pericles?
6829And everything moves casually, by blind tendency?
6829And have you grappled with Aristophanes and Eupolis?
6829And her name?
6829And how are you going to do that?
6829And how big, now, did the towns and the people look from there?
6829And how should that be?
6829And in Scythia''good men''receive sacrifice just the same as Gods?
6829And in what form was your spirit next clothed, after it had put off Pythagoras?
6829And is it in your power to unspin what they have spun?
6829And now look at it from the patron''s point of view; does he get his money''s worth?
6829And now what about those many points in which your art is superior to Rhetoric and Philosophy?
6829And now, what are we to do?
6829And pleasure a good?
6829And the regulation of the universe is not under any God''s care?
6829And then in the dining- room, where is his match, to jest or to eat?
6829And this being so, why should not the same principles be extended further?''
6829And we may call a sponger an out- diner?
6829And what am I going to be next?
6829And what are his other doings, to which all your household are witnesses?''
6829And what do I want with a garlanded column over my grave?
6829And what good do you suppose you are going to do by pouring wine on it?
6829And what if he has?
6829And what is the result?
6829And what makes Simon so pale?
6829And what more natural than that she should love poetry, and make it her chief study?
6829And what of him?
6829And what was his reason?
6829And what wonder, if the fairest of Ionian cities has given birth to the fairest of women?''
6829And what would you have me do, my boy?
6829And when you were Pythagoras?
6829And where shall I begin?
6829And who is this Syrian?
6829And whom does he send to dwell with the heroes?
6829And why?
6829And will you scout Euripides too, then?
6829And you never even asked her name?
6829And your versatility has even changed sexes?
6829And, Pan,--have they become more virtuous under the hands of the philosophers?
6829Antisthenes?
6829Archilochus?
6829Are not these admirable deeds, and shall not the doers be counted as Gods by all who esteem prowess?
6829Are the Gods going to push Destiny aside and make a bid for government?
6829Are the prizes too small?
6829Are we to understand that you possess literary discernment without the assistance of any study?
6829Are you afraid I shall be suffocated in the confinement of the tomb?
6829Are you counting upon Atticus and Callinus, the copyists, to put in a good word for you?
6829Are you going to retract what you said?
6829Are you going to tell me that a man who finds out that he is to die by a steel point can escape the doom by shutting himself up?
6829Are you merely seizing an opportunity of displaying your wealth?
6829Are you now to learn that freedom from hunger and thirst is better than meat and drink, and insensibility to cold better than plenty of clothes?
6829Are you now to learn that life and death are the highest considerations among mankind?
6829As for Momus, what is dishonour to him?
6829As he went, he put questions to me about earthly affairs, beginning with, What was wheat a quarter in Greece?
6829Ask them, Where is Demosthenes now?
6829Asked whether he ate honey- cakes,''Do you suppose,''he said,''that bees only make honey for fools?''
6829At this moment of depression-- I was very near tears-- who should come up behind me but Empedocles the physicist?
6829Banqueter was the word used for sponger in his day; what does he say?
6829Because he wants the art which would enable him to save his life?
6829Blasphemer, have you ever been a voyage?
6829But I am rather curious on one point: what are your favourite books among so many?
6829But Zeus bent upon me a Titanic glance, awful, penetrating, and spoke: Who art thou?
6829But all this lamentation, now; this fluting and beating of breasts; these wholly disproportionate wailings: how am I the better for it all?
6829But in----?
6829But perhaps you will doubt my word too?''
6829But proceed, son of Mnesarchus: how came you to change from man to bird, from Samos to Tanagra?
6829But that_ Philosophy_ should lack unity, and even conflict with itself like instruments out of tune-- how can that be tolerated?
6829But there: what need to go back to Orpheus and Neanthus?
6829But they only jeered at me:''Are you going to lie all day about our country and our river, pray?
6829But what I want to know is, how did it happen?
6829But what about your transformations?
6829But what are you laughing at?
6829But what brings you here, Hermes?
6829But what could you find to admire in Orestes and Pylades, that you should exalt them to godhead?
6829But what do you expect from them?
6829But what is the use of that?
6829But what is your solution of the problem?
6829But what made you ask me about the Fates?
6829But what matter what her head was like, or that every one knew how a long illness had treated her?
6829But what put it into your head to make that law about meat and beans?
6829But what sort of a guess do you make at the sponger''s behaviour in war?
6829But what were you going to say about Simon?
6829But when it comes to national lies, when one finds whole cities bouncing collectively like one man, how is one to keep one''s countenance?
6829But who is this breathless messenger?
6829But why deal in conjecture when there are facts to hand?
6829But why not?
6829But would that be quite a worthy conception of divine beings?
6829But would you mind giving a name to all this?
6829But you may well despise me: why do I sit here listening to all this, with my thunder- bolt beneath my arm?
6829By the way, do all who enter get them?
6829By your leave I will proceed to apply the two definitions to what I wrote; which of them fits it?
6829Call in the painters, perhaps, selecting those who were noted for their skill in mixing and laying on their colours?
6829Can we doubt that he is in the right of it?
6829Can you doubt that he who cures the ague may also inflict it at will?''
6829Can you explain it?
6829Can you give me any more?
6829Can you help me to it?
6829Can you match that, friend?
6829Can your sapience point to any single convenience of life, of which we are deprived in the lower world?
6829Come, my fine fellow, is it not all ridiculous?
6829Consider; will Croesus''s passage of the Halys destroy his own realm, or Cyrus''s?
6829Contempt?
6829Could any man be more abominably misused?
6829Cower ye confounded at these momentous tidings?
6829Did it all happen as Homer describes?
6829Did you ever go through the_ Baptae_[ Footnote: See Cotytto in Notes.]?
6829Did you ever hear of Pythagoras of Samos, son of Mnesarchus?
6829Dining out, in fact?
6829Dinomachus, for instance, wanted to know''how big were the Goddess''s dogs?''
6829Do the Fates also control you Gods?
6829Do you close your ears even to Zeus''s thunder, atheist?
6829Do you ever read the speech of Aeschines against Timarchus?
6829Do you know what I think we had better do, Hermes?
6829Do you recognize the distinction between_ differentia_ and_ indifferentia_?
6829Do you see him?
6829Do you see?
6829Do you suppose we do not know how to account for your annoyance?
6829Do you teach rhetoric, then?
6829Do_ you_ depend from their thread?
6829Does a man commit a murder?
6829Does he rob a temple?
6829Does he think we all hail from Miletus or Samos?
6829Does not such ingratitude as this render him liable to the penalties imposed by the marriage- laws?
6829Doth none rise?
6829Dream, my good man?
6829Drink, open the case.... Not a word?
6829Ever since we were united in friendship, are we not one flesh?
6829Everything proceeds from the Fates, you say?
6829Fine promises, these, are they not?
6829For her stature, let it be that of Cnidian_ Aphrodite_; once more we have recourse to Praxiteles.--What think you, Polystratus?
6829Gentlemen, can you tolerate such sentiments?
6829Gold the only thing you can find to admire?
6829Ha, ha, friend cock, have I learnt to turn a simile already?
6829Had I not some reason to be annoyed with you?
6829Has Earth produced a new brood of giants?
6829Have I misunderstood your figure, or is this a fair deduction from it?
6829Have the Titans broken their chains, overpowered their guards, and taken up arms against us once more?
6829Have you any preference among our Gods?
6829Have you important news from Earth?
6829Have you thought better of it?
6829Heracles''s right hand is occupied with the club, and his left with the bow: how is he to hold the ends of the chains?
6829Here we are; what do I do next?
6829Hermes, is it in order that this dog- faced Egyptian person should sit in front of me, Posidon?
6829Hermes, of all people, grudge a man a little thievery?
6829Hipponax?
6829Homer may go hang: what does a babbling poet know about dreams?
6829Honour bright?
6829How are we to cure Timocles of the impediment in his speech?
6829How are you to know the difference between genuine old books that are worth money, and trash whose only merit is that it is falling to pieces?
6829How did you manage, then?
6829How do I know that these cures are brought about by the means to which you attribute them?
6829How do they go?
6829How do you develop perfect virtue out of clay and training?
6829How do you make that out?
6829How do you make that out?
6829How is that?
6829How should that be?
6829How so?
6829How so?
6829How their theories conflict is soon apparent; next- door neighbours?
6829How was he punished?
6829How was he to resist this pretty woman, with her captivating manners, her well- timed tears, her parenthetic sighs?
6829How would the God of Friendship meet the case?
6829How?
6829However;--what was your sex next time?
6829Hush, Pan: was not that Hermes making the proclamation?
6829I answered all these questions, and he proceeded:--''Tell me, Menippus, what are men''s feelings towards me?''
6829I cried;''Hippocrates must have sacrifices, must he?
6829I exclaimed;''so he was a doctor too?''
6829I expect you had a pleasant time of it, living on the very fat of the land?
6829I shall throw you out, perhaps, if I keep on calling you different things?
6829I suppose you did not happen to see Socrates or Plato among the Shades?''
6829I thought bath- time would never come; I could not keep my eyes off the dial: where was the shadow now?
6829I tremble for their fate: were they drowned, or did some miraculous providence deliver them?
6829I want to know whether you have a profession of any sort; for instance, are you a musician?
6829I''m not easy about all that plate either: what if some one should knock a hole in the wall, and make off with it?
6829If he is, does he get them out of his own means, or from some one else?
6829If in praising a dog one should remark that it was bigger than a fox or a cat, would you regard him as a skilful panegyrist?
6829If the truth must out, we sit here with a single eye to one thing-- does a man sacrifice and feed the altars fat?
6829In Heaven''s name, what does he expect to get from him?
6829In the daytime, or at night?
6829In the name of goodness, Menippus, what are these astronomical sums you are doing under your breath?
6829Indeed?
6829Is a war- tax to be levied?
6829Is he clever?
6829Is it a lovely portrait?
6829Is it all true that they sing of Destiny and the Fates-- that whatever they spin for a man at his birth must inevitably come about?
6829Is it because I am not a bald, bent, wrinkled old cripple like yourself?
6829Is it equal to that of the Fates?
6829Is it just your way of showing the public that you can afford to spend money even on things that are of no use to you?
6829Is it with tales like these that Homer has prevailed on you?
6829Is she a Fate too?
6829Is that so very portentous?
6829Is the inheritance to your liking?
6829Is the love of gold so absorbing a passion?
6829Is this one of the things it is not proper for me to know?
6829Is your name Zeus, or not?
6829It follows that, if sponging was the negative of art, the sponger would not save his life by its means?
6829It makes me quite angry: what satisfaction can there be to men of their good qualities in deceiving themselves and their neighbours?
6829Know you not that an Emperor has many eyes and many ears?
6829Letters we know, Medicine we know; Sponging?
6829May we pass this as one of my five?
6829Moreover, sponging is not to be classed with beauty and strength, and so called a quality instead of an art?
6829My Pythagoras no better than he should be?
6829My gallant cock has positively laid eggs in his time?
6829My son, why this haste?
6829Namely----?
6829Names?
6829Nay, we can do better: have we not Homer, best of painters, though a Euphranor and an Apelles be present?
6829Need I point out the useful purposes that gold serves?
6829Need I say more?
6829No, no; you answer my question first; what makes you believe in them?
6829Nor can we blame them: they are but men; how should they know truth, when the divinity whose mouthpieces they were is departed from them?
6829Now even granting that you do, what is the use of knowing what one has to expect, when one can by no possibility take any precautions?
6829Now for the horses and dogs and frogs and fishes: how did you like that kind of thing?
6829Now that ship would not have sailed, without a steersman; and do you suppose that this great universe drifts unsteered and uncontrolled?
6829Now there, madam, you are unreasonable: how can he possibly make a dialogue of it all by himself?
6829Now what good can they get out of it?
6829Now, Hermes, Hera, Athene, what is our course?
6829Now, Syrian: what do you say to that?
6829Now, Toxaris: do you mean to tell me that you people actually_ sacrifice_ to Orestes and Pylades?
6829Now, honestly, Mnesippus, does not that doubt look a little like envy?
6829Now, now: weeping?
6829Now, what do you say to this proposal?
6829Now, what do you think is the way to sharpen your sight?''
6829Of course you know that?
6829Of these pairs, which do you consider the best?
6829Oh, I see; using stars to steer by, like the Phoenicians?
6829Oh, not_ all_ the altars; what harm do they do, so long as incense and perfume is the worst of it?
6829Oh, yes, no doubt;_ he_ called Apollo rich,''rolling in gold''; but now where will you find Apollo?
6829Or again with the hurry of business-- fiscal-- legal-- military?
6829Or are they passed over in favour of the orators?
6829Or did you put your trust in Artemis?
6829Orders to be issued, treaties to be drawn up, estimates to be formed?
6829Our Menippus a literal godsend from Heaven?
6829Perhaps a trade is more in your way; are you a carpenter or cobbler?
6829Philocles, what_ is_ it that makes most men so fond of a lie?
6829Philosophers caring to sponge?
6829Philosophers?
6829Plato?
6829Possess us; are not we thine own familiars?
6829Pray when are they likely to have time to spare for me?
6829Put on your clothes?
6829Pythagoras has carded and spun?
6829Pythagoras the mistress-- and the mother-- of a Pericles?
6829Reel off the exordium in Homer?
6829Ride or out- ride, shoot or out- shoot?
6829Sacrifice to them?
6829Scant and broken sleep, troubled dreams, perplexities, forebodings?
6829Seriously now, are not these refinements of yours all child''s play-- something for your idle, slack youngsters to do?
6829Shall I proceed, or is the inference clear?
6829Shall an Ethiopian change his skin?
6829Shall we take war time first, and see who will do best for himself and for his city under those conditions?
6829Similarly, if a man involuntarily performed a good action, he would not reward him?
6829So I presume an out- diner is better than a diner?
6829So he came and asked him:''Who, pray, are you, that you should pour scorn upon me?''
6829So his supplies will never run short?
6829So mighty is the issue; believe me, it behoves us all to search out salvation; and where lies salvation?
6829So sponging is an art, eh?
6829So sponging is an art?
6829So you are a sponger?
6829So, if sponging has all these marks, it must be an art?
6829Solon, did Lycurgus take his whippings at the fighting age, or did he make these spirited regulations on the safe basis of superannuation?
6829Some one tried to make a fool of him by asking, If I burn a hundred pounds of wood, how many pounds of smoke shall I get?
6829Sponging is an old word; what does it really mean?
6829Still busy with vain phantoms, chasing a visionary happiness through your head, that''fleeting''joy, as the poet calls it?
6829Suppose a man commits a crime accidentally: does he punish him just the same?
6829Surely you know, Cyniscus, what punishments await the evil- doers after death, and how happy will be the lot of the righteous?
6829Take an instance: if a man who did not understand navigation took charge of a ship in a stormy sea, would he be safe?
6829Tell me, then, and be damned to you, do you deny that the Gods exercise providence?
6829Than mine?
6829That is how things go on board your ship, sir wiseacre; and who shall count the wrecks?
6829That is not the case; the greater the drain upon it in the course of exercise, the greater the supply; did you ever hear a story about the Hydra?
6829That venerably bearded sexagenarian, with his philosophic leanings?
6829The innocent?
6829The possession of gold the sole happiness?
6829The resentments of courtiers and the machinations of conspirators?
6829The sophist had not had enough;''_ You_ are no infant,''he went on,''but a philosopher, it seems; may one ask what marks the transformation?''
6829Then when Homer says, for instance, in another place, Lest unto Hell thou go,_ outstripping Fate_, he is talking nonsense, of course?
6829Then when I slew the lion or the Hydra, was I only the Fates''instrument?
6829Then who was I, do you know?
6829Then you have seen the_ Aphrodite_, of course?
6829There are three Fates, are there not,--Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropus?
6829There is a nasty sound about the word sponger, do n''t you think?
6829They were strangers to you: strangers, did I say?
6829This is something like friendship, is it not,--to accept such a bequest as this, and to show such respect for a friend''s last wishes?
6829This was no earthly vision, Lycinus; surely she must have dropped from the clouds.--And what was she doing?
6829To Simon''s?
6829To hear you, one might think it was Polus or Aristodemus, not Zeus; and why, pray, if something of that sort is not bothering you?
6829To run or out- run?
6829To what end the gluing and the trimming, the cedar- oil and saffron, the leather cases and the bosses?
6829Wait a minute: have I ever been changed in this way?
6829Was Democritus alarmed at the ghosts?
6829Was not this advice superfluous, seeing that the end must come?
6829Was your patient a second Epimenides?''
6829Well now, is the number of friendships to be limited, or does wealth of instances itself constitute one claim to superiority?
6829Well then, you must surely have come on some embarrassing home- truths in that play?
6829Well then: you know your Homer and Hesiod, of course?
6829Well, Cyniscus?
6829Well, Justice: yonder is our road: straight in the line for Sunium, to the foot of Hymettus, taking Parnes on our right; you see those two hills?
6829Well, Pythagoras,--or is there any other name you prefer?
6829Well, Rhetoric, when are you going to begin?
6829Well, and Achilles: was he so much better than other people, or is that all stuff and nonsense?
6829Well, and why did you not copy Lycurgus and whip your young men?
6829Well, but all men-- ay, all nations-- have acknowledged and, feted Gods; was it all delusion?
6829Well, but is the appropriation of what belongs to others no offence?
6829Well, but-- will they come?
6829Well, how shall we manage?
6829Well, never mind; what was she like?
6829Well, the sponger does that; why is he privileged to offend?
6829Well, what am I to do?
6829Well, what is Art?
6829Well, who will dare dispute_ my_ claim?
6829Well, you will let me describe as civil scenes the market, the courts, the wrestling- schools and gymnasia, the hunting field and the dining- room?
6829Well?
6829Were you ever at Cnidus?
6829What about these two charges just brought against a rhetorician?
6829What about this?
6829What about your friend Eucrates?
6829What answer is possible to such ribaldry?
6829What are they?
6829What are we to say they are doing?
6829What are you laughing at, Anacharsis?
6829What can save you then?
6829What can the matter be, then?
6829What can you mean?
6829What could induce me, misguided insect that I was, to leave that life without so much as a grain of gold- dust to supply my needs in this one?
6829What did I tell you, Gods?
6829What do you mean by hounding them against me?
6829What do you say?
6829What do you think of him, Toxaris?
6829What do you think?
6829What else of godlike and sublime was in their conduct?
6829What harm did these men do?
6829What has a refined bewitching orator to do with the vulgar masculine?
6829What impression does one get of the sponger''s actual life, when one compares it with the other?
6829What is a henchman, slaves and friends being excluded?
6829What is it that Pindar says about gold?
6829What is it?
6829What is that?
6829What is the exact contribution to it of dust and summersaults?
6829What is the matter?
6829What is the meaning of this?
6829What is this Providence?
6829What is your idea, now, in all this rolling and unrolling of scrolls?
6829What matter, friend?
6829What need to mention that the most religious race on earth, the Egyptian, never tires of divine names?
6829What say the poets?
6829What shall I do, Zeus?
6829What should he know of the matter?
6829What sort of a dinner was it?
6829What was Tibius doing with those fine great kippers yesterday?
6829What will be the result?
6829What will she make of it, I wonder?
6829What will the defendant have to say to that, I wonder?
6829What will thine utterance be?
6829What, Eucrates, of all credible witnesses?
6829What, Hermes?
6829What, Zeus?
6829What, are all the events we see uncontrolled, then?
6829What, still puzzling over the import of a dream?
6829What, without meat or drink?
6829What, you miscreant, no Gods?
6829What, you turned into a hawk or a crow on the sly?
6829What?
6829When a speaker passes over essential matters in silence, has the court no penalty for him?
6829When any one asks what the art is, how do we describe it?
6829When do you do your reading?
6829When he talks like that, do you take offence and fling the book away, or has_ he_ your licence to expatiate in panegyric?
6829Whence comes this resistless plague among us?
6829Where he tells how the daughter, the brother, and the wife of Zeus conspired to imprison him?
6829Where is my dagger?
6829Where is our handsome musician now?
6829Where is the right thing to be found?
6829Where is your military gymnasium, then?
6829Where shall we go first?
6829Wherefore thus brooding, Zeus?
6829Which is to be first?
6829Which is----?
6829Which one?
6829Which would you take, if you had the choice?-To sail, or to out- sail?
6829Who are they, and what is the extent of their power?
6829Who are you, that you should protest in the Gods''name?
6829Who ever came away from dinner in tears?
6829Who is she, and whence?
6829Who is umpire?
6829Who of womankind shall be compared to her In comeliness, in wit, in goodly works?
6829Who was that?
6829Who will sacrifice to you, if he does not expect to profit by it?
6829Who wins?
6829Who wins?
6829Who would care to do a glorious deed?
6829Who would dare attempt such a thing, with him tasting your food and drink?
6829Who would not despise the city whose guards are such miserable creatures?
6829Who would not go through this amount of preparatory toil, and take his chance of a choking or a dislocation, for apples or parsley?
6829Whom but the wicked?
6829Whom does he punish in particular?
6829Why are you so sorry for me?
6829Why do you smile?
6829Why do your young men behave like this, Solon?
6829Why does not the official there separate them and put an end to it?
6829Why seize upon the rising generation so young, and subject them to such toils?
6829Why that ribald laughter, Momus?
6829Why, Tychiades, what else was Patroclus''s relation to Achilles?
6829Why, have you ever known any one with such a strong natural turn for lying?
6829Why, how would you like it done?
6829Why, if these were ruined, how could the orators ever make another speech, with the best of their stock- in- trade taken from them?
6829Why, now?
6829Why, what means this?
6829Why, what sane man would call sponging a profession?
6829Why, who would believe the story, when I told him that I had it from a cock?
6829Why, you must know Pan, most festive of all Dionysus''s followers?
6829Why?
6829Why?
6829Will Apollo''s answer to the Lydian suit you?
6829Will he be converted there and then into a stalwart, comely warrior, clearing the river at a bound, and staining its waters with Phrygian blood?
6829Will he prove a slayer of Asteropaeuses and Lycaons, and finally of Hectors, he who can not so much as bear Achilles''s spear upon his shoulders?
6829Will she contrive to put all these different types together without their clashing?
6829Will you allow Homer to have been an admirable poet?
6829Will you have it all?
6829Will you never stop?
6829Will you remember to tell Zeus all this?
6829Wind and Scimetar not Gods?
6829With a whirr and a crash Let the levin- bolt dash-- Ah, whither?
6829With fear and suspicion?
6829With whom does it lie to check and remedy this state of things?
6829Would you have me break in?
6829Would_ you_ have stood it, when that fisherman from Oreus stole your trident at Geraestus?
6829Yes, I think you have dealt with that point sufficiently; apart from that, how do you show the inferiority of Philosophy to your art?
6829Yes, you have proved him a good man; but can you show him to have been not Achilles''s friend, but a sponger?
6829Yes?
6829Yes?
6829Yes?
6829Yet begin I will; how can I draw back when she is there?
6829Yet surely nothing could be clearer: who could observe such a man at work, and abstain from the inevitable allusion to pearls and swine?
6829Yet what right have_ I_ to complain?
6829You doubt of that judgement- seat before which every soul is arraigned?
6829You have quite forgotten the way, I suppose, in all this time?
6829You hesitate?
6829You hold toil to be an evil?
6829You know Ion?
6829You know how confident and impressive I always was as a public speaker?
6829You know my neighbour and fellow craftsman, Simon, who supped with me not long since?
6829You leave us nothing, then?
6829You must be jesting, Posidon; you can not have forgotten that we have no say in the matter?
6829You must pluck out the feather first.... What''s this?
6829You retire; you confess yourself beaten, then?
6829You said that there were eunuchs in her train?
6829You tell me, cock, that you have been a king yourself: now how did_ you_ find the life?
6829You will admit that, if the principle of your life is to be pleasure, all your appetites have to be satisfied?
6829You will agree with me that colour and tone have a good deal to do with beauty?
6829You will deny all that too, of course?
6829You will not grudge me that privilege?
6829You would deprive even the Fates of honour?
6829You would have me return to Earth, once more to be driven thence in ignominious flight by the intolerable taunts of Injustice?
6829Your authority for all this, pray?
6829Your jealousy will not take alarm at the prospect of a rival petrifaction at your side?
6829Zeus has sent me down, Pan, to preside in the law- court.--And how do you like Athens?
6829], and for all these ages has enjoyed the blessings of perfect order in this ancient city?
6829]: yet I take it that the incompetence of their respective owners will be made clear; am I right?
6829_ Dear sir, was it Apollo sent you here?
6829_ Will you sit in the porch, when there is a_ parvys_ to hand?
6829_"You?
6829a relic from the time of Minos?''
6829accept the verdict and hold my tongue?
6829and did the vegetables want more rain?
6829and how was night possible in Heaven, with the sun always there taking his share of the good cheer?
6829and the Portico thrown in, with the Miltiades and Cynaegirus on the field of Marathon?
6829and your teeth chattering?
6829and, if so, what else can possibly annoy you but love?
6829are not our joys and our sorrows the same?
6829array their hosts against him?
6829asked Arignotus, scowling upon me;''you deny the existence of the supernatural, when there is scarcely a man who has not seen some evidence of it?''
6829between_ praeposita_ and_ rejecta_?
6829by what right?
6829could I go yet?
6829destroy all those people for one man''s wickedness?
6829did he call me best of rhetoricians, as when Chaerephon asked and was told who was wisest of his generation?
6829did you like the idea of falling into the sea, and giving us a_ Mare Menippeum_ after the precedent of the_ Icarium_?
6829do you expect it to filter through all the way to Hades?
6829do you take them for Gods?
6829had we suffered much from cold last winter?
6829he exclaimed;''can he not hear at this distance?''
6829he must be feasted with all pomp and circumstance, and punctually to the day, or his leechship is angry?
6829here on Areopagus I am to give juries to outsiders, who ought to be tried on the other side of the Euphrates?
6829hold a session at once?
6829how big am I?
6829how did I come to leave out so essential a particular?
6829how do you make good men of them?
6829in God''s name, what shall we call_ your_ contribution to progress?
6829is he engaging?
6829is that the trouble?
6829like yourself?''
6829no Providence?
6829nor again why Socrates was handed over to the Eleven instead of Meletus?
6829of inspired utterances, of voices from the shrine, of the priestess''s prophetic lines?
6829or greater perhaps?
6829or is workmanship to count most?
6829or shall we say next year?
6829or some greater, a mistress of the Fates?
6829or will you grant an appeal?
6829pale?
6829pen a palinode like Stesichorus?
6829people with beards just like mine; sepulchral beings, who are always getting together and jabbering?
6829perhaps, like Hesiod, you received a laurel- branch from the Muses?
6829shall I be able to live with them?
6829shall they let wounds or weariness or discomfort incapacitate them before there is need?
6829so bald, so plain, so prosy an announcement-- on this momentous occasion?
6829that black should_ be_ black, white be white, and red play its blushing part?
6829the eunuch a concubine, the landsman an oar, the pilot a plough?
6829then, Polystratus, I beheld teeth whose whiteness, whose unbroken regularity, who shall describe?
6829they said;''we never saw a coachman spilt; and where are the poplars?
6829what has Dialogue but his cloak?
6829where do you find the source of oracles and prophecies, if not in the Gods and their Providence?
6829where thy city?
6829wherefore apart, And palely pacing, as Earth''s sages use?
6829who thy kin?
6829why am I gibbous?
6829why am I halved?
6829why so vexed?
6829why, do you suppose, if it was true, we would row or tow up stream for sixpences?
6829will he acquit himself creditably?
6829with the schoolroom it is different; or who ever went out to dinner with the dismal expression characteristic of going to school?
6829would his acquisition leave him any wiser than it found him?
6829you do not blush to call yourself a sponger?
6829you doubt that there are punishments and rewards to come?