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reputable calling were known by many other aliases, — as, 

 a wedge, elbow-friend, (^) a wild beast, (*) a double, f ) a 

 cupping-glass, etc. Sometimes the race were called col- 

 lectively ijuviai, or flies, because they would go uninvited 

 to a feast, and even when repulsed soon find their way 

 back again to the board ; sometimes, from sticking close 

 to an eminent personage's side at supper, or from gliding 

 in like his shadow, they were called {a-Kiai) shades ; tfoiw<!, 

 sauce, was another designation for them, because they ap- 

 peared with the garum and other sauces put on the table 

 preparatory to the feast, and before any other guest had 

 arrived; and finally Myconians,* because this people 

 were so poor that their poverty, if not their wiU, obliged 

 them to toady somebody to procure a subsistence. 



Though the trade of chicanery was carried on briskly 

 enough throughout Greece, and Athens was a great em- 

 porium for it ; Salamis seems to have been the original 

 and chief mart for toadies and toadyism, whence all the 

 rest of the world was content to derive its supplies ; here 

 there were two recognized and distinct orders of para- 

 sites, the Grerginians and Promalanges : the business of 

 the first was to pick up all the news they could collect at 

 public places, and that of the other to sift and select 

 such parts only as were most likely to be popular and 

 pay. These last acquired such celebrity in the knowledge 

 of wheedling, as to be called parasite, or toad-spawn. (*) As 

 it would have been highly improper if this act of pleasing, 

 as its professors were pleased to call it, C) had been ex- 

 clusively left to the male sex, neither was it ; the gentler 

 gender, whose forte at once and foible it is to please. 



(') KklfiaKa KarecKeva^ov i^ iavT&v Svras, &aTe iivX rois v&tois airav 

 ■riiu dvd^acrtv ytyvecrBai Koi Trjv Kora^ainv rats eVl tS>v &na^av 

 o^ovfievaLS. 



* Pericles censured Archilochus for being a Myoonian, intend- 

 ing ttereby a parasite. 



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