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It is a piece of good fortune for me, said Neiloxenus, to have found you all together here, and, as you see, I am bringing the packet with me to the dinner; and at the same time he showed it to us.
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Thales began to laugh, and said, If it is anything bad, go to Priene The home of Bias. again! For Bias will have a solution for this, just as he had his own solution of the first problem.
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What, said I, was the first problem?
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The king, said he, sent to Bias an animal for sacrifice, with instructions to take out and send back to him the worst and best portion of the meat. And our friend’s neat and clever solution was, to take out the tongue and send it to him,The same story is told in Moralia 38 B; in 506 C, and in Plutarch’s Comment. on Hesiod, 71 (Works ad Days, 719), the same story is told of Pittacus. with the result that he is now manifestly in high repute and esteem.