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In certain extreme cases we call it 'mimicry', and invoke hypotheses to account for this 'mimetic' resemblance; and those of us who reject these hypotheses must fain take refuge in others, as far-reaching in their way. This at least we know, that Speusippus seized upon a real problem of biology, of lasting interest and even of fundamental importance.
And Aufidius with stumbling against the Consull-chamber doore as he was going in thereat? And Cornelius Gallus, the Praetor, Tigillinus, Captaine of the Romane watch, Lodowike, sonne of Guido Gonzaga, Marquis of Mantua, end their daies betweene womens thighs? And of a farre worse example Speusippus, the Platonian philosopher, and one of our Popes?
By this way of reasoning, then, a happy life may attend virtue even to the moment of execution; nay, may descend with her into Phalaris's bull, according to Aristotle, Xenocrates, Speusippus, Polemon; and will not be gained over by any allurements to forsake her.
Besides, to exclude foreign beauties from the chorus of the initiated in the Elysian fields is less cruel to them than to ourselves. Chariclea, you shall be initiated. CHARICLEA. When? ALCIBIADES. Now. CHARICLEA. Where? ALCIBIADES. Here. CHARICLEA. Delightful! SPEUSIPPUS. But there must be an interval of a year between the purification and the initiation. ALCIBIADES. We will suppose all that.
See Aristophanes; Plutus, 602. SPEUSIPPUS. Why, thou unreasonable old man! Thou most shameless of fathers! CALLIDEMUS. Ungrateful wretch; dare you talk so? Are you not afraid of the thunders of Jupiter? SPEUSIPPUS. Jupiter thunder! nonsense! Anaxagoras says, that thunder is only an explosion produced by CALLIDEMUS. He does! Would that it had fallen on his head for his pains!
Consider therefore, and be well advised, in what manner you will chastise this man. But you know, replied Aristodemus, that Plato, when highly offended with his boy that waited on him, would not himself beat him, but requested Speusippus to do it for him, saying that he himself was angry.
SPEUSIPPUS. Oh! that mass of barbarous absurdities, the Prometheus. But I have framed it anew upon the model of Euripides. By Bacchus, I shall make Sophocles and Agathon look about them. You would not know the play again. CALLIDEMUS. By Jupiter, I believe not. SPEUSIPPUS. I have omitted the whole of the absurd dialogue between Vulcan and Strength, at the beginning.
But pray, if it be not too presumptuous a request, indulge me with a specimen. SPEUSIPPUS. Well; suppose the agora crowded; an important subject under discussion; an ambassador from Argos, or from the great king; the tributes from the islands; an impeachment; in short, anything you please. The crier makes proclamation.
ALCIBIADES. Then, sweet Chariclea, since you have silenced Speusippus, you shall sing yourself. CHARICLEA. What shall I sing? ALCIBIADES. Nay, choose for yourself. CHARICLEA. Then I will sing an old Ionian hymn, which is chanted every spring at the feast of Venus, near Miletus. I used to sing it in my own country when I was a child; and ah, Alcibiades!
SPEUSIPPUS. At all events, it will be long before you taste such wine again, Alcibiades. CALLICLES. Nay, there is excellent wine in Sicily. When I was there with Eurymedon's squadron, I had many a long carouse. You never saw finer grapes than those of Aetna. HIPPOMACHUS. The Greeks do not understand the art of making wine. Your Persian is the man. So rich, so fragrant, so sparkling!
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