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By my faith, I see, as I fancy, one place still for yourself only, where you may recline.
PAMPHILUS
Really, I do think it may be managed.
GELASIMUS
O light of the city!
EPIGNOMUS
If you can manage to recline in a small compass.
GELASIMUS
Aye, even between two wedgesBetween two wedges: He will take so little space, that he will be able to sit in the compass that lies between two wedges, when driven into a tree for the purpose of forcing out a portion of the wood. of iron.
As little space as a puppy can lie in, the same will be enough for me.
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EPIGNOMUS
I’ll beg for it some way or other; come along.
GELASIMUS
What? This way?
EPIGNOMUS
Yes, to prison. For here, indeed, you’ll not find any further entertainmentFurther entertainment: Genium. The Genii were tutelary Divmities, each supposed to have charge of an individual from his birth to his death. They were propitiated with wine and sacrifice, and hence the notion arose that they took pleasure in revelry and feasting. From this circumstance, the word genius came to signify a persons capacity for or love of enjoyment.. Let’s be off, you Pamphilus.
PAMPHILUS
I’ll but salute the Gods: then I’ll pass through to your house forthwith.
EPIGNOMUS
Why, I said that you might go to prison.
GELASIMUS
Well, if you order it,
EPIGNOMUS
Immortal Gods! really, by my troth, this fellow might be induced by a dinner or a breakfast to bear extreme torture.
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GELASIMUS
Such is my nature; with anything can I struggle much more easily than with hunger.
EPIGNOMUS
I know it: at my house
full long enough has this facility of yours been experienced by me
while you were the Parasite of myself and my brother, we ruined our fortunes.
Now I don’t wish you to be made by me from a Gelasimus into a CatagelasimusCatagelasimus: He makes a poor joke on the name of Gelasimus, by way of an excuse for not inviting him. When helping me to spend my fortune, you were Gelasimus, one that amused us by your wit and drollery. I’ll not now be instrumental in making you henceforth a butt and a subject of ridicule to others: the word being the name of Gelasimus, compounded with the Greek preposition κατὰ..
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