LYCINUS
That is a very wonderful prize, Hermotimus, and I fancy you are near winning it, to judge by the time you spend on your philosophical studies and also the considerable energy you seem to have devoted for so long. If I remember, it must be nigh on twenty years that I have seen you doing nothing but going to the teachers, and usually bent over a book and writing notes on the lectures, always pale and wasted with studying. I suppose even your dreams give you no rest, you are so wrapped up in it. So, when I consider this, I feel that you will not be long in reaching happiness, unless it has been your companion for years and we have missed seeing it.
That is a very wonderful prize, Hermotimus, and I fancy you are near winning it, to judge by the time you spend on your philosophical studies and also the considerable energy you seem to have devoted for so long. If I remember, it must be nigh on twenty years that I have seen you doing nothing but going to the teachers, and usually bent over a book and writing notes on the lectures, always pale and wasted with studying. I suppose even your dreams give you no rest, you are so wrapped up in it. So, when I consider this, I feel that you will not be long in reaching happiness, unless it has been your companion for years and we have missed seeing it.
HERMOTIMUS
How can that be, Lycinus? I am just beginning to get a glimpse of my way there. Virtue, says Hesiod,
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lives far away, and the path to her is long and steep and rough, with plenty of sweat for travellers.
How can that be, Lycinus? I am just beginning to get a glimpse of my way there. Virtue, says Hesiod,
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lives far away, and the path to her is long and steep and rough, with plenty of sweat for travellers.
LYCINUS
Have you not sweated and travelled enough, Hermotimus?
Have you not sweated and travelled enough, Hermotimus?
HERMOTIMUS
No, I tell you. I couldn’t be other than perfectly happy if I were at the top. At this moment I am still beginning, Lycinus.
No, I tell you. I couldn’t be other than perfectly happy if I were at the top. At this moment I am still beginning, Lycinus.
Hermotimus. Lucian of Samosata. Kenneth Kilburn (Translator). Medford, MA. Perseus 5.0.
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