Nigrinus
Translated by Austin Morris Harmon
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The opening
THE WISDOM OF NIGRINUS
A How very lordly and exalted you are since you came back! Really, you don’t deign to notice us any more, you don’t associate with us, and you don’t join in our conversations: you have changed all of a sudden, and, in short, have a supercilious air. I should be glad to find out from you how it comes that you are so peculiar, and what is the cause of all this?
B Nothing but good fortune, my dear fellow.
A What do you mean?
B I have come back to you transformed by the wayside into a happy and a blissful man—in the language of the stage, “thrice blessed.”
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About this edition
- The words
- Austin Morris Harmon's English translation, copied word for word.
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Perseus Digital Library (Tufts University); CC BY-SA 4.0 — this edition may be reused under the same share-alike terms. creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
- Left out
- Notes and pages added by translators, editors or publishers, in 2 places
- The title page and opening pages before chapter 1