Περὶ τοῦ Παρασίτου ὅτι Τέχνη ἡ Παρασιτική

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TYCHIADES Then, by Zeus, when we wish to tell about you to someone who does not know you, when he wants to find out about you, of course we shall be correct in referring to you as “the parasite”?

SIMON Far more correct in referring to me so than in referring to Phidias as a sculptor, for I take quite as much joy in my art as Phidias did in his Zeus.

TYCHIADES I say, here is a point; as I think of it, a gale of laughter has come over me!

SIMON What is it? 10

TYCHIADES What if we should address you in due form at the top of our letters as “Simon the Parasite”! SIMON Why, you would do me greater pleasure than you would Dion by addressing him as “the Philosopher.”Dion of Syracuse, the friend of Plato.

TYCHIADES Well, how it pleases you to be styled matters little or nothing to me; but you must consider the general absurdity of it.

SIMON What absurdity, I should like to know?

TYCHIADES If we are to list this among the other arts, so that when anybody enquires what art it is, we shall say “Parasitic,” to correspond with Music and Rhetoric.The examples in the Greek are “Grammar and Medicine,” but it was necessary to choose English examples which retained the Greek ending. SIMON For my part, Tychiades, I should call this an art far more than any other. If you care to listen, I think I can tell you why, although, as I just said, I am not entirely prepared for it. TYCHIADES It will make no difference at all if you say little, as long as that little is true.