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B Yes, truly.
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A But what is the rest of it? What is it that you are puffed up about? Let us enjoy something more than a mere hint: let us have a chance to get at the facts by hearing the whole story.
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B Don’t you think it wonderful, in the name of Zeus, that once a slave, I am now free! « once poor, now rich indeed”; once witless and befogged, now saner?Apparently a free quotation from some play that is lost. (Kock, adesp. 1419.)
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A Why, yes! nothing could be more fmportant. But even yet I don’t clearly understand what you mean.
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B Well, I made straight for Rome, wanting to see an oculist; for I was having more and more trouble with my eye.
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A I know all that, and hoped you would find an able man.
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B As I had resolved to pay my respects to Nigrinus the Platonic philosopher, which I had not done for a long time, I got up early and went to his house, and when I had knocked at the door and the man had announced me, I was asked in. On entering, I found him with a book in his hands and many busts of ancient philosophers standing round about. Beside him there had been placed a tablet filled with figures in geometry and a reed globe, made, I thought, to represent the universe.
