There is a strange Greek statue which has disappeared completely. But it could be reconstructed today
from a stone inscription which used to be the base on which the statue stood. That inscription is a very unusual one: it makes the statue talk to you while you are reading the text.Here is what it says:
"What is your name, O statue?
"I am called OPPORTUNITY."
"Who made you?"
"Lysippos."
"Why are you standing on your toes?"
"So that people may hold onto me when they meet me."
"Why, then, is your head so bald in the back?"
"To show that when I have once passed, I cannot be caught."
"And what is your name again?"
"OPPORTUNITY."
—After Aesop
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