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Demetrius Poliorcetes was a man very eager for anything which could make him laugh, as Phylarchus tells us in the sixth book of his History. And he it was who said, that the palace of Lysimachus was in no respect different from a comic theatre; for that there was no one there bigger than a dissyllable Because slaves (and the actors were usually slaves) had only names of one, or at most two syllables, such as Davus, Geta, Dromo, Mus. (meaning to laugh at Bithys and Paris, who had more influence than anybody with Lysimachus, and at some others of his friends;) but that his friends were Peucesteses, and Menelauses, and Oxythemises. But when Lysimachus heard this, he said,—I, however, never saw a prostitute on the stage in a tragedy; referring to Lamia the female flute-player. And when this was reported to Demetrius, he rejoined,—But the prostitute who is with me, lives in a more modest manner than the Penelope who is with him.
