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Lycinus
Well, then—most of your account I followed and accepted —how they grow wise and brave and just, and the rest—indeed I was quite fascinated by it; but then you went on to say they despised wealth and glory and pleasure; well, just there (quite between ourselves, you know) I was pulled up; I thought of a scene-t’other day with—shall I tell you whom? Perhaps we can do without a name?Hermotimus
No, no; we must have that too.Lycinus
Your own professor himself, then,—a person to whom all respect is due, surely, not to mention his years.Hermotimus
Well?Lycinus
You know the Heracleot, quite an old pupil of his in philosophy by this time—red-haired—likes an argument?Hermotimus
Yes; Dion, he is called.Lycinus
Well, I suppose he had not paid up punctually; anyhow the other day the old man haled him before the magistrate, with a halter made of his own coat; he was shouting and fuming, and if some friends had not come up and got the young man out of his hands, he would have bitten off his nose, he was in such a temper.Hermotimus. Lucian. Henry Watson Fowler (Translator), Francis George Fowler (Translator). Medford, MA, USA. 2023-08-01.
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