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HERMES You will soon find out why we are in search of them. But at present let us make a joint proclamation. «If anyone has seen a Paphlagonian slave, one of those barbarians from Sinope, with a name of the kind that has ‘rich’ in it, sallow, close-cropped,As a Cynic, the man should wear his hair long; but we are informed that he has Stoic leanings (§ 31). wearing a long beard, with a wallet slung from his shoulder and a short cloak about him, quick- tempered, uneducated, harsh-voiced, and abusive, let him give information for the stipulated reward.”
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FIRST SLAVE-OWNER Your proclamation does not tally, man! His name when I had him was Scarabee; furthermore, he wore his hair long, kept his chin hairless, and knew my trade. It was his business to sit in my fuller’s shop and shear off the excessive nap that makes cloaks fuzzy.
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PHILOSOPHY That is the very man, your slave; but now he looks like a philosopher, for he has given himself a thorough dry-cleaning. FIRST SLAVE-OWNER (to Second and Third) The impudence of him! Scarabee is setting up for a philosopher, she says, and we do not enter into his speculations at all!
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SECOND SLAVE-OWNER Never mind, we shall find them all, for this woman knows them, by what she says.
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HERMES Who is this other person coming up, Heracles, the handsome man with the lyre?
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HERACLES It is Orpheus, my shipmate on the Argo, the most tuneful of all chanteymen. Indeed, as we rowed to his singing, we hardly grew tired at all. Good-day to you, Orpheus, best of men and first of musicians. Surely you have not forgotten Heracles.
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ORPHEUS A very good-day to you also, Philosophy, Heracles, and Hermes. But the time has come to pay your reward, since I am very well acquainted with the man for whom you are looking.
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HERMES Then show us where he is, son of Calliope, for you have no need of gold, I take it, being a wise man.
