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Updated: May 5, 2025
Such an animal as the self-observing valetudinarian I know there is; I have met him myself occasionally, and I know that he is the worst imaginable heautontimoroumenos; aggravating and sustaining, by calling into distinct consciousness, every symptom that would else perhaps, under a different direction given to the thoughts, become evanescent.
One of the most intimate of these once ventured to remark upon this, by asking the host whether he could put up with such an inconvenience all the winter. He answered, like a second Timon or Heautontimoroumenos, "Would to God this was the greatest evil of those which torment me!" It was long before he allowed himself to be persuaded to see his daughter and grandson.
His Heautontimoroumenos or 'Self Punisher' takes up, visibly, two days. 'Therefore, says SCALIGER, 'the two first Acts concluding the first day, were acted overnight; the last three on the ensuing day. "And EURIPIDES, in tying himself to one day, has committed an absurdity never to be forgiven him.
'My father, cried the boy, in the first impulse of affectionate recognition; and then he had expected some such meeting all along, but now that it was come at last, he turned pale as death. The students saw his emotion. 'Hands off, old Heautontimoroumenos! He belongs to our guild now! Monks have no more business with sons than with wives. Shall we hustle him for you, Philammon?
On her asking him to tell her what he had been writing, he repeated the verses which are found in the Heautontimoroumenos: Satis pol proterve me Syri promessa Heauton. IV. iv. 1. I'faith! the rogue Syrus's impudent pretences
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