De parasito sive artem esse parasiticam
Translated by Austin Morris Harmon
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The Parasite
TYCHIADES Why in the world is it, Simon, that while other men, both slave and free, each know some art by which they are of use to themselves and to someone else, you apparently have no work which would enable you to make any profit yourself or give away anything to anybody else?
SIMON What do you mean by that question, Tychiades? I do not understand. Try to put it more clearly.
TYCHIADES Is there any art that you happen to know? Music, for instance? °
SIMON No, indeed.
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- The words
- Austin Morris Harmon's English translation, copied word for word.
- Copied from
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
- The first speaker's name in the heading (Tychiades); it stays as the first speech's label
- Notes and pages added by translators, editors or publishers, in 2 places