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HERMES
Right you are.—But who are these people and why are they too looking about them? However, they are coming up and want to ask a question.HUSBAND
Could you tell us, gentlemen, or you, kind lady, whether you have seen three rogues together, and a woman with her hair closely clipped in the Spartan style, boyish-looking and quite masculine?PHILOSOPHY
Aha! They are looking for our quarry!HUSBAND
How yours? Those fellows are all fugitive slaves, and for my part I am particularly in search of the woman, whom they have kidnapped.HERMES
You will soon find out why we are in search of them. But at present let us make a joint proclamation. «If anyone has seen a Paphlagonian slave, one of those barbarians from Sinope, with a name of the kind that has ‘rich’ in it, sallow, close-cropped, 1 wearing a long beard, with a wallet slung from his shoulder and a short cloak about him, quick- tempered, uneducated, harsh-voiced, and abusive, let him give information for the stipulated reward.”Fugitivi. Lucian of Samosata. Austin Morris Harmon (Translator). United States. Perseus 5.0.
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