Eunuch visits augurer to see whether he is to be a father. "When I look at the livers, you are to be a father. When I look at you, I see that you are not even a man." — Mythoi

Motif

Eunuch visits augurer to see whether he is to be a father. "When I look at the livers, you are to be a father. When I look at you, I see that you are not even a man."

The wise and the foolish. · Cleverness. · Clever verbal retorts (repartee). · Repartee concerning the parentage of children. · view the constellation · filed as J1271

Cited in the index

general Wienert FFC LVI 40
general Babrius No. 54.

Within the index

Filed under Repartee concerning the parentage of children.

Filed beside it

The gift of the fool. Of three brothers the shoemaker makes shoes for the queen and princess; the tailor, clothes; the fool – children Children by day and by night. Artist paints beautiful children but his own are ugly. One kind, he says, are made by day, the other by night His father has been in Rome. A young man comes to Rome who looks like the emperor. Latter asks him if he mother has ever been in Rome. No, but my father has been here often. (Not son but brother.) The child born too soon Repartee regarding the parentage of children – miscellaneous

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