Page 229 THE SOPHISTS : POLEMON AND HERODES ATTICUS collection of boys from Thrace and Northern Asia
and other foreign countries, and do more to corrupt the purity
of their own speech than to improve that of their visitors. But
the interior of Attica, which has no contact with foreigners, keeps
its language untainted, and its speech has the perfect Attic ring.'
` Were you ever at a festival ?' asked Herodes. ` I was at the
Delphic festival,' replied Goodfellow, ` but instead of mixing
with the crowd I listened from the summit of Parnassus to the musical
competitions, when Pammenes gave his wonderful tragic performance,
and I thought that the wise Greeks were wrong in listening with
delight to the crimes of the houses of Pelops and Labdacus : for
fables taken seriously are prompters of horrid acts.' Herodes seeing
him in a philosophic mood went on to ask his opinion about the
athletic competitions. ` I find men ', said Agathion, ` even more
ridiculous, when they are fighting each other in the pancratium,
or boxing or running or wrestling, and being crowned for it. Crown
a runner who can beat a deer or a horse, or the more serious athlete
who wrestles with a bull or a bear, as I do every day, now that
fortune has deprived me of my great opponent, since lions are extinct
in Acarnania.' |
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