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Toxaris
Done with you, then.Mnesippus
And, Toxaris,—we will dispense with the blood-andscimetar ceremony. Our present conversation, and the similarity of our aims, are a much better security than that sanguinary cup of yours. Friendship, as I take it, should be voluntary, not compulsory.Toxaris
Well said. From this day, I am your friend, you mine; I your guest here in Greece, you mine if ever you come to Scythia.Mnesippus
Scythia! I would go further than Scythia, to meet with such friends as Toxaris’s narratives have shown him to be.Toxaris vel amicitia. Lucian. Henry Watson Fowler (Translator), Francis George Fowler (Translator). Medford, MA, USA. 2023-08-01.
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