The Cynic : * THE CYNIC "Lycinus. A Cynic" "Ly". Give an account of yourself, my man. You wear a beard and let your hair grow; you eschew shirts; you exhibit your skin; your feet are bare; you choose a wandering, outcast, beastly life; unlike other people, you make your own body p. 173 the object of your...
The Ship. Or, The Wishes : * THE SHIP: OR, THE WISHES "Lycinus. Timolaus. Samippus. Adimantus" "Ly". Said I not well? More easily shall a corpse lie mouldering in the sun, and the vulture mark it not, than any strange sight escape Timolaus, no matter though he must run all the way to Corinth at a stretch for it...
Dialogues Of The Hetaerae. Xv : * DIALOGUES OF THE HETAERAE XV "Cochlis. Parthenis" "Co". Crying, Parthenis! what is it? how do your pipes come to be broken? "Par". Oh! oh! I have been beaten by Crocale's lover--that tall Aetolian soldier; he found me playing at Crocale's, hired by his rival Gorgus. He broke in while they were...
Demosthenes, An Encomium : * p. 145 DEMOSTHENES AN ENCOMIUM A LITTLE before noon on the sixteenth, I was walking in the Porch--it was on the left-hand side as you go out--, when Thersagoras appeared; I dare say he is known to some of you--short, hook-nosed, fair-complexioned, and virile. He drew nearer, and I spoke:...
The Death Of Peregrine : * p. 79 THE DEATH OF PEREGRINE LUCIAN to CRONIUS. Greeting. Poor dear Peregrine--or Proteus, as he loved to call himself,--has quite come up to his namesake in Homer. We have seen him under many shapes: countless have been his transformations for glory's sake; and now--'tis his last appearance--we...
The Runaways : * THE RUNAWAYS "Apollo. Zeus. Philosophy. Heracles. Hermes. Three Masters. An Innkeeper. Orpheus. Innkeeper's Wife. Three Runaway Slaves" "Apol". Father, is this true, about a man's publicly throwing himself upon a pyre, at the Olympian Games? He was quite an old man, it seems, and rather a good...
Saturnalian Letters. Iii : * SATURNALIAN LETTERS III "Cronus to the Rich, Greeting". 31I lately received a letter from the poor, complaining that you give them no share of your prosperity. They petitioned me in general terms to institute community of goods and let each have his part: it was only right that equality should...
Dialogues Of The Hetaerae. Xi : * DIALOGUES OF THE HETAERAE XI "Tryphaena. Charmides" "Try". Well, to be sure! Get a girl to keep company with you, and then turn your back on her! Nothing but tears and groans! The wine was not good enough, I suppose, and you didn't want a "tte--tte" dinner. Oh yes, I saw you were crying...
Title Page : * THE WORKS OF LUCIAN OF SAMOSATA Complete With Exceptions Specified In The Preface TRANSLATED BY H. W. FOWLER AND F. G. FOWLER What work nobler than transplanting foreign thought into the barren domestic soil? except indeed planting thought of your own, which the fewest are privileged to do...
The Gods In Council : * p. 165 THE GODS IN COUNCIL "Zeus. Hermes. Momus" "Zeus". Now, gentlemen, enough of that muttering and whispering in corners. You complain that our banquets are thrown open to a number of undesirable persons. Very well: the Assembly has been convened for the purpose of dealing with this very...
Dialogues Of The Hetaerae. Vii : * p. 60 DIALOGUES OF THE HETAERAE VII "Musarium. Her Mother" "Mother". Well, child, if we get another gallant like Chaereas, we must make some offerings; the earthly Aphrodite shall have a white kid, the heavenly one in the Gardens a heifer, and our lady of windfalls a garland. How well off we...
Dialogues Of The Hetaerae. I : * DIALOGUES OF THE HETAERAE I "Glycera. Thais" "Gly". Thais, that Acarnanian soldier, who used to be so fond of Abrotonum, and then fell in love with me--he was decorated, and wore a military cloak--do you know the man I mean? I suppose you have forgotten him? "Th". Oh no, dear, I know; why, he...
Notes Explanatory Of Allusions To Persons, Andc : * p. 191 NOTES EXPLANATORY OF ALLUSIONS TO PERSONS, afterwards used as a name for the school of philosophy that acknowledged him as its founder. For Plato's characteristic doctrines, see under PLATO. Lucian's references to the school are (1) as eristic or argumentative. The Socratic method...
Dialogues Of The Hetaerae. Iv : * DIALOGUES OF THE HETAERAE IV "Melitta. Bacchis" "Me". Bacchis, don't you know any of those old women--there are any number of them about, 'Thessalians,' they call them--they have incantations, you know, and they can make a man in love with you, no matter how much he hated you before? Do go...
Saturnalian Letters. Iv : * SATURNALIAN LETTERS IV "The Rich to Cronus, Greeting". Do you really suppose, Sire, that these letters of the poor 36 have gone exclusively to "your" address? Zeus is quite deaf with their clamour, their appeals for redistribution, their complaints of Destiny for her unfairness and of us...
Dialogues Of The Hetaerae. Xii : * DIALOGUES OF THE HETAERAE XII "Joessa. Pythias. Lysias" "Jo". Cross boy! But I deserve it all! I ought to have treated you as any other girl would do,--bothered you for money, and been engaged when you called, and made you cheat your father or rob your mother to get presents for me; instead...
Dialogues Of The Hetaerae. Viii : * DIALOGUES OF THE HETAERAE VIII "Ampelis. Chrysis" "Am". Well, but, Chrysis, I don't call a man in love at all, if he doesn't get jealous, and storm, and slap one, and clip one's hair, and tear one's clothes to pieces. "Ch". Is that the only way to tell? "Am". To tell a serious passion, yes...
Saturnalian Letters. I : * SATURNALIAN LETTERS I "I to Cronus, Greeting". 19I have written to you before telling you of my condition, how poverty was likely to exclude me from the festival you have proclaimed. I remember observing how unreasonable it was that some of us should be in the lap of wealth and luxury, and never...
Dialogues Of The Hetaerae. Iii : * DIALOGUES OF THE HETAERAE III "Philinna. Her Mother" "Mother". You must be mad, Philinna; what "was" the matter with you at the dinner last night? Diphilus was in tears this morning when he came and told me how he had been treated. You were tipsy, he said, and made an exhibition of yourself...
Dialogues Of The Hetaerae. Ix : * DIALOGUES OF THE HETAERAE IX "Dorcas. Pannychis. Philostratus. Polemon" "Dor". Oh, miss, we are lost, lost! Here is Polemon back from the wars a rich man, they say. I saw him myself in a mantle with a purple border and a clasp, and a whole train of men at his back. His friends when they caught...
Dialogues Of The Hetaerae. Xiii : * DIALOGUES OF THE HETAERAE XIII "Leontichus. Chenidas. Hymnis" "Le". And then that battle with the Galatians; tell her about that, Chenidas--how I rode out in front on the grey, and the Galatians (brave fellows, those Galatians, too)--but they ran away directly they saw me; not a man stood his...
Cronosolon : * p. 113 CRONOSOLON 10"The words of Cronosolon, priest and prophet of Cronus, and holiday lawgiver". The regulations to be observed by the poor I have sent expressly to them in another scroll, and am well assured that they will abide by the same, failing which, they will be obnoxious to the heavy...
Dipsas, The Thirst Snake : * DIPSAS, THE THIRST-SNAKE THE southern parts of Libya are all deep sand and parched soil, a desert of wide extent that produces nothing, one vast plain destitute of grass, herb, vegetation, and water; or if a remnant of the scanty rain stands here and there in a hollow p. 27 place, it is turbid...
Saturnalia : * p. 108 SATURNALIA "Cronus. His Priest" "Pr". Cronus, you are in authority just now, I understand; to you our sacrifices and ceremonies are directed; now, what can I make surest of getting if I ask it of you at this holy season? "Cro". You had better make up your own mind what to pray for, unless...
Dialogues Of The Hetaerae. Ii : * DIALOGUES OF THE HETAERAE II "Myrtium. Pamphilus. Doris" "Myr". Well, Pamphilus? So I hear you are to marry Phido the shipmaster's daughter,--if you have not done so already! And this is the end of your vows and tears! All is over and forgotten! And I so near my time! Yes, that is all I have...
Saturnalian Letters. Ii : * SATURNALIAN LETTERS II "Cronus to his well-beloved me, Greeting". My good man, why this absurdity of writing to me about the25 state of the world, and advising redistribution of property? It is none of my business; the present ruler must see to that. It is an odd thing you should be the only...
Dialogues Of The Hetaerae. Xiv : * DIALOGUES OF THE HETAERAE XIV "Dorion. Myrtale" "Do". So, Myrtale! You ruin me first, and then close your doors on me! It was another tale when I brought you all those presents: I was your love, then; your lord, your life. But you have squeezed me dry now, and have got hold of that Bithyni...
Patriotism : * PATRIOTISM IT is a truism with no pretensions to novelty that there is nothing sweeter than one's country. Does that imply that, though there is nothing pleasanter, there may be something grander or more divine? Why, of all that men reckon grand and divine their country is the source and teacher...
A Feast Of Lapithae : * A FEAST OF LAPITHAE "Philo. Lycinus" "Phi". Ah, Lycinus, I hear you had a very varied entertainment dining with Aristaenetus last night; a philosophic debate followed by a sharp difference of opinion, I understand; if Charinus's information was correct, it went as far as blows...
The Hall : * p. 12 THE HALL As Alexander stood gazing at the transparent loveliness of the Cydnus, the thought of a plunge into those generous depths, of the delicious shock of ice-cold waters amid summer heat, was too much for him; and could he have foreseen the illness that was to result from it, I believe...
Slander, A Warning : * p. 1 SLANDER, A WARNING A TERRIBLE thing is ignorance, the source of endless human woes, spreading a mist over facts, obscuring truth, and casting a gloom upon the individual life. We are all walkers in darkness--or say, our experience is that of blind men, knocking helplessly against the real...
A Word With Hesiod : * A WORD WITH HESIOD "Lycinus. Hesiod" "Ly". As to your being a first-rate poet, Hesiod, we do not doubt that, any more than we doubt your having received the gift from the Muses, together with that laurel-branch; it is sufficiently proved by the noble inspiration that breathes in every line...
The Purist Purized : * THE PURIST PURIZED "Lycinus. Purist" "Ly". Are you the man whose scent is so keen for a blunder, and who is himself blunder-proof? "Pur". I think I may say so. "Ly". I suppose one must be blunder-proof, to detect the man who is not so? "Pur". Assuredly. "Ly". Do I understand that you are proof...
