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Lucian of Samosata

The Works of Lucian of Samosata, complete, with exceptions specified in thepreface, Vol. 4. Fowler, H. W. and Fowlere, F.G., translators. Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1905.

Samippus A good idea. I am your man; I undertake to wish when my turn comes, We need not ask Adimantus whether

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he agrees; he has one foot on board already. We must have Lycinus’s sanction, however.

Lycinus Why, let us to our wealth, if so it must be. Where all is prosperity, I would not be thought to cast an evil eye.

Adimantus Who begins?

Lycinus You; and then Samippus, and then Timolaus. I shall only want the last hundred yards or so before the Gate for mine, and a quick hundred, too.

Adimantus Well, I stick to my ship still; only I shall wish some more things, as it is allowed. May the God of Luck say Yes to all! I will have the ship, and everything in her; the cargo, the merchants, the women, the sailors, and anything else that is particularly nice to have.

Samippus You forget one thing you have on board —

Adimantus Oh, the boy with the hair; yes, him too. And instead of the present cargo of wheat, I will have the same bulk of coined gold, all sovereigns.