TYCHIADES 
It seems to me, Simon, that you have treated of
everything without being in any degree inadequate 
to your art. You are not deficient in preparation, as
you said you were; on the contrary, you are as
thoroughly trained as one could be by the greatest
masters. And now I want to know whether the very
name of Parasitic is not discreditable.
 SIMON 
Note my answer and see if you think it is satisfactory,
and try on your part to answer my question as you
think best. Come, now, what about the noun from
which it is derived? To what did the ancients
apply it?

 TYCHIADES 
 To food. SIMON 
And what about the simple verb, does it not
mean “to eat”?
 TYCHIADES 
Yes.
 SIMON 
Then we have admitted, have we not, that to be a
parasite is nothing but to eat with someone else?
 TYCHIADES 
Why, Simon, that is the very thing which seems
discreditable!