Scaife ATLAS

Philosophies for Sale (16-17)

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ACADEMIC

But I swear to you by the dog and the plane-tree that this is so.

BUYER

Heracles! What curious gods!

ACADEMIC

What is that you say? Don’t you think the dog is a god? Don’t you know about Anubis in Egypt, how great he is, and about Sirius in the sky and Cerberus in the world below?

BUYER

Quite right; I was entirely mistaken. But what is your manner of life?

ACADEMIC

I dwell in a city that I created for myself, using an imported constitution and enacting statutes of my own.[*]

BUYER

I should like to hear one of your enactments.

ACADEMIC

Let me tell you the most important one, the view

v.2.p.483

that I hold about wives; it is that none of thei shall belong solely to any one man, but that everyone who so desires may share the rights of the husband.

BUYER

You mean by this that you have abolished the laws against adultery?

ACADEMIC

Yes, and in a word, all this pettiness about such matters.

BUYER

What is your attitude as to pretty boys?

ACADEMIC

Their kisses shall be a guerdon for the bravest after they have done some splendid, reckless deed.

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