Cock
To see you, too, Mikyllos, sharing the vulgar error about rich people through your ignorance. Be assured that they live a much more wretched life than you do. I tell you as one who has been both poor and rich over and over again, and tried every sort of life. It will not be long before you yourself will have knowledge of each.
To see you, too, Mikyllos, sharing the vulgar error about rich people through your ignorance. Be assured that they live a much more wretched life than you do. I tell you as one who has been both poor and rich over and over again, and tried every sort of life. It will not be long before you yourself will have knowledge of each.
Mikyllos
By Zeus! it is high time for you to take your turn and tell about your metamorphoses, and what you know about each life.
By Zeus! it is high time for you to take your turn and tell about your metamorphoses, and what you know about each life.
Cock
Listen, but first know this, that I have seen no living soul happier than you.
Listen, but first know this, that I have seen no living soul happier than you.
Mikyllos
Than I? I wish you the same, for you move me to use bad language to you. But begin with Euphorbos, and tell me how you were changed into Pythagoras, and so on in order down to the cock. For you must have had a variety of sights and experiences in your manifold lives.
Than I? I wish you the same, for you move me to use bad language to you. But begin with Euphorbos, and tell me how you were changed into Pythagoras, and so on in order down to the cock. For you must have had a variety of sights and experiences in your manifold lives.
Gallus. Lucian of Samosata. Emily James Smith (Translator). Medford, MA. Perseus 5.0.
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