LYCINUS
These were obviously other people’s opinions on the schools. You wouldn’t have simply believed the respective adherents when they praised their own schools.
These were obviously other people’s opinions on the schools. You wouldn’t have simply believed the respective adherents when they praised their own schools.
HERMOTIMUS
Certainly not; these were other people’s opinions.
Certainly not; these were other people’s opinions.
LYCINUS
Not their rivals’ opinions, I suppose?
Not their rivals’ opinions, I suppose?
HERMOTIMUS
No.
No.
LYCINUS
Laymen’s opinions?
Laymen’s opinions?
HERMOTIMUS
Yes.
Yes.
LYCINUS
You see how once again you are cheating me and not telling the truth. You think you are talking with some Margites
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who is ready to believe that Hermotimus, an intelligent man forty years of age, on philosophy and philosophers believed the opinions of laymen and made his choice of the better creed accordingly. I refuse to believe you when you say things like that.
You see how once again you are cheating me and not telling the truth. You think you are talking with some Margites
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who is ready to believe that Hermotimus, an intelligent man forty years of age, on philosophy and philosophers believed the opinions of laymen and made his choice of the better creed accordingly. I refuse to believe you when you say things like that.
Hermotimus. Lucian of Samosata. Kenneth Kilburn (Translator). Medford, MA. Perseus 5.0.
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