Περὶ τοῦ Παρασίτου ὅτι Τέχνη ἡ Παρασιτική

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SIMON I do not feel that I have yet thoroughly mastered the literature on that subject. So for the present you may know that I possess an art and need not be dissatisfied with me on that score; some other day you shall hear what art it is. 15

TYCHIADES But I can’t wait.

SIMON The nature of the art will perhaps seem extraordinary when you hear it.

TYCHIADES Tr aly, that is just why I am keen to know about it.

SIMON ‘Some other day, Tychiades.

TYCHIADES Oh, no! Tell me now—unless you are ashamed! 20

SIMON Parasitic.

TYCHIADES Really, would anyone who was not insane call that an art, Simon?

SIMON I do; and if you think I am insane, think also that my insanity is the reason for my not knowing any other art and acquit me of your charges at once. They say, you know, that this malign spirit, cruel in all else to those whom she inhabits, at least secures them remission of their sins, like a schoolmaster or a tutor, by taking the blame for them upon herself. ~

TYCHIADES Well then, Simon, Parasitic is an art? SIMON Indeed it is, and I am a craftsman in it.In the word δημιουργός there is an allusion to the definition of Rhetoric as Πειθοῦς δημιουργός. TYCHIADES Then you are a parasite?

SIMON That was a cruel thrust, Tychiades!

TYCHIADES But do not you blush to call yourself a parasite? 5

SIMON Not at all; I should be ashamed not to speak it out.