Chattering Courtesans and Other Sardonic Sketches by Lucian

Author:Lucian
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780141967417
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Published: 2010-06-20T04:00:00+00:00

LYCINUS: I’d no idea you were such an accomplished speaker, [15] Polystratus. Anyway, the prosecution speech you’ve made against my work was so long and thorough that I don’t even have any hope that I can defend myself now. The only thing I’ll say is that you of all people shouldn’t have contravened legal process this way, giving a judgment on the book by default, in the absence of its advocate. As the proverb has it, it’s the easiest thing in the world to win a race when you’re the only competitor. There’s nothing surprising, then, in the fact that I’ve actually been convicted, not having been given the chance to make a defence speech or the measure of water by the water-clock in which to speak.17 Actually, the strangest thing of all is that the case had you, the prosecutors, also acting as the jurors.

What do you want me to do, then? Shall I acquiesce in the judgment and say nothing? Do you think I should act like the poet from Himera and write a palinode?18 Or are you going to give me a chance to appeal against the conviction?

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