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Updated: June 17, 2025
When Micyllus" here the hand slides into the waistcoat again "when Micyllus," said my father, "asked the cock that had once been Pythagoras if the affair of Troy was really as Homer told it, the cock replied scornfully, 'How could Homer know anything about it?
I thought it was time for me to be going about my business: however, Eucrates turned round to me, and seeing how glum I looked, 'Micyllus, says he, after a good deal of humming and ha'ing, 'you must join us; we shall find room for you; I can send my boy to dine with his mother and the women. It had very nearly turned out a wild-goose chase, but not quite: I walked in, feeling rather ashamed of myself for having done the boy out of his dinner.
And they tell me he paid no less a sum than four shillings for a pair of earrings for his wife. God help me, it's my money they're flinging about. I'm not easy about all that plate either: what if some one should knock a hole in the wall, and make off with it? Many is the one that envies me, and has an eye on my gold; my neighbour Micyllus is as bad as any of them. Mi. Hear, hear!
Ah, Hermes, but there is a great deal in Darius's remark about Zopyrus I would rather have had one ally like Damis than be the lord of a thousand Babylons. Micyllus. A Cock Mi. Detested bird! May Zeus crunch your every bone! Shrill, envious brute: to wake me from delightful dreams of wealth and magic blessedness with those piercing, deafening notes!
Either you lied when you told me you were Pythagoras, or else you have sinned against your own laws: in eating those beans, you have as good as bolted your own father's head. Cock. Ah, you don't understand, Micyllus. There is a reason for these things: different diets suit different creatures. I was a philosopher in those days: accordingly I abstained from beans.
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