Kitap 13
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And therefore I advise you, my Thessalian friend with the handsome chairs, to be content to embrace the women in the brothels, and not to spend the inheritance of your children on vanities. For, truly, the lame man gets on best at this sort of work; since your father, the boot-maker, did not lecture you and teach you any great deal, and did not confine you to looking at leather. Or do you not know those women, as we find them called in the Pannuchis of Eubulus— Thrifty decoys, who gather in the money,— Fillies well-train'd of Venus, standing naked In long array, clad in transparent robes Of thinnest web, like the fair damsels whom Eridanus waters with his holy stream; From whom, with safety and frugality, You may buy pleasure at a moderate cost. And in his Nannium, (the play under this name is the work of Eubulus, and not of Philippides)— For he who secretly goes hunting for Illicit love, must surely of all men Most miserable be; and yet he may See in the light of the sun a willing row Of naked damsels, standing all array'd In robes transparent, like the damsels whom Eridanus waters with his holy stream, And buy some pleasure at a trifling rate, Without pursuing joys he 's bound to hide, (There is no heavier calamity,) Just out of wantonness and not for love. I do bewail the fate of hapless Greece, Which sent forth such an admiral as Cydias.
