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-====== Crates of Thebes ====== +====== Crates of Thebes Lucian, The Runaways =====
-===== Lucian, The Runaways =====+
  
 <blockquote>The city swarms with these vermin, particularly with those who profess the tenets of Diogenes, Antisthenes, and **Crates**. Followers of the Dog, they care little to excel in the canine virtues; they are neither trusty guardians nor affectionate, faithful servants: but for noise and greed and thievery and wantonness, for cringing, fawning cupboard-love,--there, indeed, they are perfect. Before long you will see every trade at a standstill, the workmen all at large: for every man of them knows that, whilst he is bent over his work from morning to night, toiling and drudging for a starvation wage, idle impostors are living in the midst of plenty, commanding charity where they will, with no word of thanks to the giver, and a curse on him that withholds the gift. Surely (he will say to himself) the golden age is returned, and the heavens shall rain honey into my mouth. <blockquote>The city swarms with these vermin, particularly with those who profess the tenets of Diogenes, Antisthenes, and **Crates**. Followers of the Dog, they care little to excel in the canine virtues; they are neither trusty guardians nor affectionate, faithful servants: but for noise and greed and thievery and wantonness, for cringing, fawning cupboard-love,--there, indeed, they are perfect. Before long you will see every trade at a standstill, the workmen all at large: for every man of them knows that, whilst he is bent over his work from morning to night, toiling and drudging for a starvation wage, idle impostors are living in the midst of plenty, commanding charity where they will, with no word of thanks to the giver, and a curse on him that withholds the gift. Surely (he will say to himself) the golden age is returned, and the heavens shall rain honey into my mouth.
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 [[http://lucianofsamosata.info/TheRunaways.html|Source]]</blockquote> [[http://lucianofsamosata.info/TheRunaways.html|Source]]</blockquote>
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 +The Works of Lucian of Samosata. Translated by Fowler, H W and F G. Oxford: The Clarendon Press. 1905. http://lucianofsamosata.info/\\
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