Περὶ τοῦ Παρασίτου ὅτι Τέχνη ἡ Παρασιτική

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İngilizce İngilizce Yunanca

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Besides, the other arts have teachers, but Parasitic has none; like the Art of Poetry according to the definition of Socrates, it comes by some divine dispensation.Plato, Ion 534 B-c.

Reflect, too, that we cannot exercise the other arts while on a journey or a voyage, but this one can be plied both on the road and at sea.

TYCHIADES Quite true.

SIMON Moreover, Tychiades, it seems to me that the other arts stand in need of this one, but this one does not stand in need of any other.This point is not dwelt upon here because the author proposes to use it with great effect later at the expense of philosophy (§$ 31 ff.). TYCHIADES But, I say, don’t you think that people who take what belongs to someone else do wrong?

SIMON Certainly.

TYCHIADES How is it, then, that the parasite is the only one that does not do wrong in taking what belongs to someone else?

SIMON I can’t say!Fritzsche gives the two questions to Simon and the answers to Tychiades, at the expense of a little rewriting. Perhaps he is right, but it is rather too bad to lose the humorous effect of the “I can’t say” in the mouth of Simon, followed by the change of subject. — Again, in the other arts the first steps are shabby and insignificant, but in Parasitic the first step is a very fine one, for friendship, that oft-lauded word, is nothing else, you will find, than the first step in Parasitic.

TYCHIADES What do you mean?