Lucian, Timon, ed. Austin Morris Harmon, 29

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Ἑρμῆς

ὡς δὲ λεῖος εἶ καὶ ὀλισθηρός, ὦ Πλοῦτε, καὶ δυσκάτοχος καὶ διαφευκτικός, οὐδεμίαν ἀντιλαβὴν παρεχόμενος βεβαίαν ἀλλʼ ὥσπερ αἱ ἐγχέλεις ἢ οἱ ὄφεις διὰ τῶν δακτύλων δραπετεύεις οὐκ οἶδα ὅπως· ἡ Πενία δʼ ἔμπαλιν ἰξώδης τε καὶ εὐλαβὴς καὶ μυρία τὰ ἄγκιστρα ἐκπεφυκότα ἐξ ἅπαντος τοῦ σώματος ἔχουσα, ὡς πλησιάσαντας εὐθὺς ἔχεσθαι καὶ μὴ ἔχειν ῥᾳδίως ἀπολυθῆναι. ἀλλὰ μεταξὺ φλυαροῦντας ἡμᾶς πρᾶγμα ἤδη οὐ μικρὸν διέλαθε.

Πλοῦτος

τὸ ποῖον;

Ἑρμῆς

ὅτι τὸν Θησαυρὸν οὐκ ἐπηγαγόμεθα, οὗπερ ἔδει μάλιστα.

Timon. Lucian. ed. Austin Morris Harmon. Medford, MA. Perseus 4.0.

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Τίμων (Greek) (Lucian, Vol. 2. Harmon, Austin Morris, editor. London: William Heinemann, Ltd.; Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1915.)

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Timon, or the Misanthrope Perseus (Lucian, Vol. 2. Harmon, Austin Morris, editor. London: William Heinemann, Ltd.; Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1915.) — 29 focus

[29]

HERMES

But how smooth and slippery you are, Riches, how hard to hold and how quick to get away! You offer people no secure grip at all, but make your escape through their fingers in some way or other, like an eel or a snake. Poverty, on the other hand, is sticky and easy to grip, and has no end of hooks growing out all over her body, so that when people come near her she lays hold of them at once and cannot be disengaged easily. But in the midst of our gossip we have forgotten something rather important.

RICHES

What is it?

HERMES

We have not brought along Treasure, whom we needed most.

Timon the Misanthrope Perseus (The Works of Lucian of Samosata, Vol. 1. Fowler, Henry Watson and Fowler, Francis George, translators. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1905.) — 29 focus

Hermes

What a smooth, slippery, unstable, evasive fellow you are, Plutus! there is no getting a firm hold of you; you wriggle through one’s fingers somehow, like an eel or a snake. Poverty is so different—sticky, clinging, all over hooks; any one who comes near her is caught directly, and finds it no simple matter to get clear. But all this gossip has put business out of our heads.

Lucian Timon 29

ed. Austin Morris Harmon

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Πλοῦτος

τὸ ποῖον;

Ἑρμῆς

ὅτι τὸν Θησαυρὸν οὐκ ἐπηγαγόμεθα, οὗπερ ἔδει μάλιστα.

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HERMES

RICHES

HERMES

Plutus

Business? What business?

Hermes

We have forgotten to bring Thesaurus, and we cannot do without him.

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Πλοῦτος τὸ ποῖον;

Ἑρμῆς ὅτι τὸν Θησαυρὸν οὐκ ἐπηγαγόμεθα, οὗπερ ἔδει μάλιστα.

Current edition Perseus

HERMES

RICHES

HERMES

Plutus Business? What business?

Hermes We have forgotten to bring Thesaurus, and we cannot do without him.

Stable identifiers

Πλοῦτος

τὸ ποῖον;

Ἑρμῆς

ὅτι τὸν Θησαυρὸν οὐκ ἐπηγαγόμεθα, οὗπερ ἔδει μάλιστα.

Plutus

Business? What business?

Hermes

We have forgotten to bring Thesaurus, and we cannot do without him.