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Updated: May 24, 2025
The Roman Lucillus lounged at the window-sill, and, since philosophy had been brought into fashion by Socrates and the Sophists, the shoemaker and the exiled Decemvir philosophised as well as they could. "Roman!" said Kartaphalos, "you are a stranger in the city, as I am: what do think of the state and the Government?" "They are exactly like the Roman.
I wait, for Zeus has gone to Rome, and is called there Jupiter Capitolinus." Aristophanes, who was easily recognised by his crane-like neck and open mouth, looked in through the window. "Have you a pair of low shoes, Kartaphalos? "At your service, sir." "We want them for the theatre, you understand.... Ah! there is Lucillus! ... and of raw leather, not tanned."
There was a noise at the entrance; the dog barked, the doorkeeper shouted, and Alcibiades entered with his companions. These consisted of girls and of two strangers whom he had found in a wine-house. "Papaia!" he cried. "Here is the host! And here is Aristophanes, a future dramatist. Here is the Roman Lucillus, formerly a Decemvir, who has been banished.
Come to the Pnyx." And he went on. "Very well to the Pnyx," said Aristophanes, "and I will obtain matter for a new comedy, to be called Alcibiades." "You are right, perhaps," answered Lucillus. "The whole matter is not worth weeping for. Therefore let us laugh!" Alcibiades stood again on the orator's platform in the Pnyx.
"Are we falling by the arrows of the Python-slayer? We are shot like birds." "We are the children of Apollo. Would our father kill us?" "Saturn has returned to devour his children." Socrates sank in meditation, and remained standing. "We have angered the gods." Lucillus the Roman entered. "See the Roman!" said Socrates, "the lord of the future and of the world. What has he to tell us?"
For myself I now prefer small congregations, and am never so well pleased as when I see only a little group of people listening to my preaching. Seneca once said to his friend Lucillus that they themselves formed a theatre wide enough for the communication of their philosophy, and, speaking of those who came to hear his teaching, he says: Satis sunt pauci, satis est alter, satis est unus.
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