[29] SECOND SLAVE-OWNER Never mind, we shall find them all, for this woman knows them, by what she says.
HERMES
Who is this other person coming up, Heracles, the handsome man with the lyre?HERACLES
It is Orpheus, my shipmate on the Argo, the most tuneful of all chanteymen. Indeed, as we rowed to his singing, we hardly grew tired at all. Good-day to you, Orpheus, best of men and first of musicians. Surely you have not forgotten Heracles.ORPHEUS
A very good-day to you also, Philosophy, Heracles, and Hermes. But the time has come to pay your reward, since I am very well acquainted with the man for whom you are looking.HERMES
Then show us where he is, son of Calliope, for you have no need of gold, I take it, being a wise man.ORPHEUS
You are right. I will show you the house where he lives, but not the man himself, so as not to be slanged by him. He is excessively foul-mouthed; that is the only thing he has thoroughly mastered.HERMES
Only show us.ORPHEUS
Here it is, close by. I am going away from your neighbourhood, so that I may not even see him.Fugitivi. Lucian of Samosata. Austin Morris Harmon (Translator). United States. Perseus 5.0.
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