thesmopolis

Updated: May 29, 2025

You will be doing me a great kindness, I assure you, in taking charge of her; I am so fond of the sweet little pet! She prayed and almost wept; and Thesmopolis promised. Imagine the ludicrous picture.

of Samosata Lucian - Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 02

'Twas all that Thesmopolis could do to persuade him not to wear his hair-net; and as it was he had a sad journey of it, with the fellow singing and whistling all the time I daresay he would have danced there and then, if Thesmopolis had not prevented him. But there was more to come, as you will see.

of Samosata Lucian - Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 02

'Thesmopolis, cries my lady, calling him to her, 'I have a great favour to ask of you; now please don't say no, and don't wait to be asked twice, there's a good creature. Of course, he said he would do anything she wished. 'I only ask you, because I know you are to be trusted; you are so good-natured and affectionate!

of Samosata Lucian - Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 02

We were now to take our places. Thesmopolis was first hoisted into his, with some difficulty, by five stalwart youths, who propped him up on every side with cushions to keep him in his place and enable him to hold out to the end. As no one else was disposed to have him for a neighbour, that privilege was assigned to me without ceremony.

of Samosata Lucian - Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03

You wait and wait, till at last its return is out of the question, and you are squeezed into some vehicle with the cook, or with my lady's friseur, without even a proper allowance of straw. I shall make no scruple of relating to you an experience of Thesmopolis the Stoic, which I had from his own mouth; a most amusing incident, and just the sort of thing one might expect to find happening again.

of Samosata Lucian - Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 02

The little beast peeping out from beneath the philosophic cloak; within licking distance of that beard, which perhaps still held traces of the thick soup of yesterday; yapping away with its shrill pipe of a voice, as Maltese terriers will; and no doubt taking other liberties, which Thesmopolis did not think worth mentioning.

of Samosata Lucian - Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 02

That night at dinner, the exquisite, his fellow traveller, after cracking a passable joke here and there at the expense of the other guests, came to Thesmopolis. 'Of him, he remarked, 'I have only this to say, that our Stoic has turned Cynic. According to what I heard, the little animal actually littered in his mantle!

of Samosata Lucian - Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 02