tibius

Updated: May 9, 2025

Would that your employments were not those of a very menial! Consider: are your duties any lighter than those of a Dromo or a Tibius? As to the studies in which your employer professed an interest when he engaged you, they are nothing to him. Shall an ass affect the lyre? Remove from these men's minds the gold and the silver, with the cares that these involve, and what remains?

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Si. That seventeen thousand in the hole under my bed is safe enough; not a soul saw me that time. But I believe Sosylus caught me hiding the four thousand under the manger: he is not the most industrious of grooms, he was never too fond of work; but he lives in that stable now. And I expect that is not all that has gone, by a long way. What was Tibius doing with those fine great kippers yesterday?

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If that is what he means, there is great justice in his contention. 'No, no, says Dinomachus, 'he maintains that there is absolutely no such thing as an apparition. 'What is this I hear? asked Arignotus, scowling upon me; 'you deny the existence of the supernatural, when there is scarcely a man who has not seen some evidence of it? 'Therein lies my exculpation, I replied: 'I do not believe in the supernatural, because, unlike the rest of mankind, I do not see it: if I saw, I should doubtless believe, just as you all do. 'Well, said he, 'next time you are in Corinth, ask for the house of Eubatides, near the Craneum; and when you have found it, go up to Tibius the door-keeper, and tell him you would like to see the spot on which Arignotus the Pythagorean unearthed the demon, whose expulsion rendered the house habitable again. 'What was that about, Arignotus? asked Eucrates.

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Then again, your objection to dancing that men act women's parts is equally applicable to tragedy and comedy, in which indeed there are more women than men. By comedy, the absurdity of the masks of a Davus, for instance, or a Tibius, or a cook is actually claimed as one of its attractions.

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