{"collection":"Classics","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cla/luc/wl1/wl153.htm","path":"cla/luc/wl1/wl153.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cla/luc/wl1/wl153.htm","text":"Cnemon. Damnippus\nCne. Why, \u2019tis the proverb fulfilled! The fawn hath taken the lion.\nDam. What's the matter, Cnemon?\nCne. The matter! I have been fooled, miserably fooled. I have passed over all whom I should have liked to make my heirs, and left my money to the wrong man.\nDam. How was that?\nCne. I had been speculating on the death of Hermolaus, the millionaire. He had no children, and my attentions had been well received by him. I thought it would be a good idea to let him know that I had made my will in his favour, on the chance of its exciting his emulation.\nDam. Yes; and Hermolaus?\nCne. What his will was, I don't know. I died suddenly,--the roof came down about my ears; and now Hermolaus is my heir. The pike has swallowed hook and bait.\nDam. And your anglership into the bargain. The pit that you digged for other. . . .\nCue. That's about the truth of the matter, confound it.\nF.","title":"Works of Lucian, Vol. I: Dialogues of the Dead: VIII","type":"page"}