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Τίμων

Τίμων Lucian of Samosata

52–53

 
DEMEAS No, but I am going to marry next year, Zeus willing, and havea child; and I now name it Timon, for it will be a boy.
 
TIMON Perhaps you don’t care to marry now, sirrah, on getting such a clout from me.
 
DEMEAS Oh! Oh! What does this mean? Timon, you are trying to make yourself tyrant and you are beating free men when you yourself have not a clear title to your freedom. You shall soon pay for this, and for burning the Acropolis too. 5
 
TIMON But the Acropolis has not been burned, you scoundrel, so it is plain that you are a blackmailer.
 
DEMEAS Well, you got your money by breaking into the treasury.
 
TIMON That has not been broken into, so you can’t make good with that charge either. -
 
DEMEAS The breaking in will be done later, but you have all the contents now.
 
TIMON Well then, take that! 5
 
DEMEAS Oh, my back!
 
TIMON Don’t shriek or I will give you a third. It would be too ridiculous if I had cut up two divisions of Spartans unarmed and then couldn’t thrash a single filthy little creature like you. My victory at Olympia in boxing and wrestling would be all for nothing!

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