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The document provides excerpts from various pages of a book about works by Lucian translated to English.

It is about works by the ancient Greek satirist and rhetorician Lucian translated to English in the Loeb Classical Library.

It lists texts like Historia, Dipsades, Saturnalia, Herodotus, Zeuxis, and others as being included in Volume VI.

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THE LOEB CLASSICAL LIBRARY


rOUNDED BY JAMES LOEB,
LL.D.

EDITED BY
fT. E.
+ E.

PAGE,

C.H., LITT.D.

L.

CAPPS, A. POST,

PH.D., LL.D.
l.h.d.

W. H. D. ROUSE,

litt.d.

E. H.

WARMINGTON,

m.a., f.r.hist.soc.

LUCIAN
VI

LUCIAN
WITH AN ENGLISH TRANSLATION BY K. KILBURN
ASSISTANT MASTER, RAYNES PARK COUNTY

GRAMMAR SCHOOL

IN EIGHT VOLUMES

VI

LONDON

WILLIAM HEINEMANN LTD


CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS

HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS

The President and Fellows of Harvard College

959

Printed in Grrat Britain

CONTENTS
PAGE

PRKFACE
LIST OF LUCIAN'S

Vii

WORKS

ix
1

HOW

TO WRITE HISTORY

THE DIPSADS
SATURNALIA

75
87
141

HERODOTUS OB AETION
ZEUXIS OR ANTIOCHUS

153
171
'

A SLIP OF THE TONGUE IN GREETING

APOLOGY FOR THE

'

SALARIED POSTS IN GREAT HOUSES

191

HARMONIDES
A CONVERSATION WITH HESIOD

215
227 239

THE SCYTHIAN OR THE CONSUL


HERMOTIMUS OR CONCERNING THE SECTS
TO ONE

....

259 417

WHO

'

SAID,

YOU'RE A PROMETHEUS IN WORDS*

THE SHIP OR THE WISHES INDEX

429
489

PREFACE
The new Teubner
not
edition of these pieces has
is

still

no adequate critical In establishing a text I have had access to edition. photostats of Vaticanus 90 (F) and Parisinus 2957 (N). The trustees of the Loeb Classical Library have kindly passed on to me the unfinished preparatory work done for this volume by Professors Harmon and Rouse. I have used some of this material as a check and have occasionally adopted an expression from one or other of my predecessors. I should like to thank especially Professor W. A. Laidlaw of Queen Mary College, University of London, who has checked the translation of most of the work I have used several of his suggestions and am grateful for his help and encouragement.
appeared and there
;

vn

LIST OF LUCIAN'S

WORKS

SHOWING THEIR DIVISION INTO VOLUMES


IN THIS EDITION
Volume
I

Hippias or the BathDionysus Phalaris Heracles Amber or The Swans The FlyNigrinus Demonax The HallMy Native Land OctogenariansA True Story I and II SlanderThe Consonants at LawThe
and
II

Carousal or The Lapiths.

Volume

II

The Downward Journey or The Tyrant Zeus Catechized Zeus Rants The Dream or The Cock Prometheus Icaromenippus or The Sky-man Timon or The Misanthrope Charon or The Inspector Philosophies for Sale.

Volume
The Dead Come
to Life or

III

Indictment or Trials by Jury

The Double The Ignorant Book Collector The Dream or Lucian's CareerThe Parasite The Lover of LiesThe Judgement of the Goddesses On
On
The Fisherman
Sacrifices

Salaried Posts in Great Houses.

Volume IV
Anacharsis or Athletics Menippus or The Descent into Hades On Fimerals A Professor of Public Speaking Alexander the False Prophet Essays in Portraiture Essays The Goddess of Surrye. in Portraiture Defended

ix

LIST OF LUCIAN'S
Volume V

WORKS

The Passing of Peregrinus The Runaways Toxaris or Friendship The Dance Lexiphanes The Eunuch Astrology The Mistaken Critic The Parliament of the Gods The Tyrannicide Disowned.

Volume VI

Saturnalia HerodotusZeuxisPro Dipsades Lapsu Apologia Harmonides Hesiodus Scytha Hermotimus Prometheus Es Navigium.
Historia

Volume VII
Dialogues of the Dead Dialogues of the Gods (exc.

Dialogues

of

the
cf.

Sea-Gods
Vol. Ill)

Deorum Judicium

Dialogues of the Courtesans.

Volume VIII

Lucius or the AssAmoresHalcyon Demosthenes Podagra Ocypus Cyniscus Philopatris Charidemus Nero.
Soloecista

THE WORKS OF LUCIAN


HOW TO WRITE
HISTORY
The Parthian War here referred to was that of a.d. 162-165 against Vologesus III. He defeated the Romans at Elegeia in 162, destroying the Roman legion ; the Roman commander Severianus was killed in the fighting. However, he was driven back from the Syrian border by Lucius Verus. Avidius Cassius destroyed Babylon and Ctesiphon, and Statins Priscus took Artaxata, the Parthian capital. Lucian criticises the flock of petty historians who had rushed to chronicle the war. The work is ostensibly a letter to Philo, of whom nothing further is known, and was written before the end of the war Lucian looks forward to the triumph still to be celebrated

(ch. 31).

VOL. VI.

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HOW TO WRITE
They
say,

HISTORY
King

my dear

Philo, that in the reign of


:

Lysimachus the people of Abdera were smitten by at first an epidemic. These were its symptoms every one of them fell ill of a fever, violent and obstinate right from the start; about the seventh day it was broken, in some cases by a copious flow of blood from the nostrils, in others by heavy sweating but their minds were left in a ridiculous state they all went mad with tragedy, shouting iambics and creating a din; and they mostly sang solos from Euripides' "Andromeda," ^ rendering Perseus' the city was full of these seventhspeech in song day tragedians, all pale and thin, roaring,
; ; ;

Love, you tyrant of gods and men and the rest in a loud voice, hour after hour, day after
day, until winter and a severe cold spell stopped their noise. Archelaiis the actor seems to me to blame for such goings on. He was popular then, and in the middle of summer in the blazing heat had played the "Andromeda" for them, so that most of them brought their fever away from the theatre with them, and
later
1

"

"

when they left


solo

their beds relapsed into tragedy


in Euripides' play."

Or " sang as a

Andromeda's part
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HOW TO WRITE
the
"

HISTORY

Andromeda kept haunting their memory, and his Perseus with Medusa's head still flitted round everyone's brain.

"

To make
world.

as they say a comparison, that Abderite

complaint has

now taken hold

of most of the literary

They don't act tragedy they would be less out of their wits if they were in the grip of other men's verses, not shoddy ones at that. No, ever since
the present situation arose the war against the barbarians, the disaster in Armenia and the run of
victories every single person is writing history nay more, they are all Thucydideses, Herodotuses and Xenophons to us, and very true, it seems, is the saying " that War is the father of all things " ^ since at one
;

stroke

it

has begotten so

many

historians.

As

saw and heard

all this, friend, I

of the story of the

man

of Sinope.

When

was reminded Philip was

said to be already on the march, all the Corinthians

were

astir

and busy, preparing weapons, bringing up

stones, underpinning the wall, shoring up a battlement and doing various other useful jobs. Diogenes

saw

this,

and

as

any use of him

nothing he belted up

he had

to do

nobody made

his philosopher's cloak

and very busily by himself rolled the crock in which, as it happens, he was living up and down Cornel Hill. When one of his friends asked " Why are you " he rephed: "I'm rolling doing that, Diogenes? the crock so as not to be thought the one idle man in
:

the midst of

all

these workers."

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HOW TO WRITE

HISTORY

So in my own case, Philo, to avoid being the only mute in such a polyphonic time, pushed about openmouthed without a word like an extra in a comedy,
it a good idea to roll my barrel as best could; not to produce a history or even merely I'm not so bold as that: don't chronicle the events be afraid that I should go that far. I know the danger of rolling it over rocks, particularly a poorly baked little barrel like mine. Just as soon as it hits against a tiny piece of stone we shall have to pick up the pieces. I shall tell you then what I have decided to do and how I shall take part in the war in safety, keeping well " " out of range myself. From your spray and surge ^ and all the cares that attend the writer of history I shall keep myself aloof and rightly so. In fact, I shall offer a little advice and these few precepts to historians, so that I may share in the erection of their building, if not the inscription on it, by putting at any rate my finger-tip on the mortar. Yet most of them think they don't even need advice for the job any more than they need a set of rules for walking or seeing or eating no, they think it is perfectly simple and easy to write history and that

I I

thought

anyone can do it if only he can put what comes to him into words. As to that, I'm sure you know as well as I do, my dear friend, that history is not one of those things that can be put in hand without effort and can
be put together
if

lazily, but is something which needs, anything does in literature, a great deal of thought 1 Homer, Od. xii, 198, describing the whirlpool of

Charybdis.
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HOW TO WRITE
if it is to

HISTORY
"

be what Thucydides calls a possession for evermore." Now I know that I shall not convert very many: some indeed will think me a great
particularly anyone whose history is and has already been displayed in finished already And if in addition he was applauded by his public.

nuisance,

audience it would be madness to expect his sort to remodel or rewrite any part of what has once been ratified and lodged, as it were, in the royal palace. Nevertheless it is as well to address my remarks to them also so that if ever another war comes along, whether Celts against Getans or Indians against Bactrians (no one would dare to fight us we've beaten everybody already), they may write better

by applying
if

this yard-stick if they think it accurate they don't, then they must use the same rule to do their measuring as now. The doctor will not be if every man of Abdera ^ greatly annoyed plays the " " Andromeda and is happy to do it. Advice works in two ways it teaches us to choose So first let us say what the this and avoid that. writer of history has to avoid, from what contaminathen what tions he must in particular be free means he must use in order not to lose the right road that carries him straight ahead I mean how
;
:

to begin,

to arrange his material, the proper for each part, what to leave out, what to proportions develop, what it is better to handle cursorily, and how to put the facts into words and fit them together.

how

These and kindred matters


1

will

come

later.

But

The Abderites were proverbially simpletons.

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HOW TO WRITE

HISTORY
faults of

let us

mention the vices which follow on the

heels of shoddy historians.


style,

To recount the

meaning and other marks of bad

workmanship which are common to all literary genres would take a long time and not be peculiar to our present enquiry. But as to faults in historical
writing, you will probably find by observation that they are of the same sort as I have noticed in many

attendances at readings, especially if you open your But it will not be out of place in ears to everyone.
the meantime to recall by way of example some of the histories already written in this faulty manner.
^

To begin with, let

us look at this for a serious fault

most of them neglect to record the events and spend their time lauding rulers and generals, extolling their own to the skies and slandering the enemy's beyond all reserve they do not realise that the dividing line and frontier between history and panegyric is not a narrow isthmus but rather a mighty wall as musicians say, they are two diapasons apart if indeed the encomiast's sole concern is to praise and please in any way he can the one he praises, and if he can achieve his aim by lying, little will he care But history cannot admit a lie, even a tiny one, any more than the windpipe, as sons of doctors say, can
; ;

tolerate anything entering it in swallowing. Again, such writers seem unaware that history has
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the case of the latter, liberty one law the will of the poet.

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In
is

aims and rules different from poetry and poems.

Inspired and possessed if he wants to harness even as he Muses the is, by winged horses to a chariot, even if he sets others to run over water or the tops of flowers,^ nobody gets annoyed not even when their Zeus swings land and sea together suspended from a single cord ^ are they afraid it will break and everything fall and smash. If they want to praise Agamemnon there is no one to prevent his having a head and eyes like Zeus, a chest like Zeus' brother Poseidon, and a belt like Ares,^ and in general the son of Atreus and Aerope must be a compound of all the gods for not Zeus nor Poseidon nor Ares alone is adequate to give the fullness of his beauty. But if history introduces flattery of that sort, what else does it become but a
;

is

absolute and there

'

sort of prose-poetry, lacking indeed the high style of poetry, but showing the rest of poetry's sorcery without metre, and for that reason in a more con-

fault

spicuous way ? So it is a great deal all too great a not to know how to keep the attributes of

-+) history and poetry separate, and to bring poetry's

embellishments into history myth arulxulogy^and it is as if the exaggeration of both you were to dress one of our tough, rugged athletes in a purple dress and the rest of the paraphernalia of a pretty
:

light-o'-love

and daub and paint


1

his face.

Heavens

Homer, Homer, Homer,

II.

11. viii,
11.

xx, 226, 4. 248, 8. ii, 478, 4.

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how
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HISTORY

ridiculous
all

him with

you would make him look, shaming

that decoration. do not say that there is no

praise in history.

But

it

room for occasional must be given at the proper

time and kept within reasonable limits to avoid displeasing future readers. In general such matters should be controlled with a view to what posterity

demands I shall treat of them a little later. Now some think they can make a satisfactory distinction in history between what gives pleasure and what is useful, and for this reason work eulogy inioit as giving pleasure and enjoyment to its readers;
;

but do you see how far they are from the truth ? In the first place, the distinction they draw is false history has one task and one eiid7:::what is useful and that.comes from truth alone. As foiTwhat gives

pleasure, certainly better good looks in an athlete


it is

if it is
;

there incidentally
if it isn't

like

but

there,

there is still nothing to prevent Nicostratus, the son of Isidotus, a true blue and a stouter fellow than " either of his rivals, from becoming a successor of " Heracles ^ though he be ugly to look at, while his opponent is Alcaeus of Miletus, the handsome fellow who, they say, was loved by Nicostratus. So it is with history if she were to make the mistake of dealing in pleasure as well she would attract a host of lovers, but as long as she keeps only what is hers alone in all its fullness I mean the publication of the truth she will give little thought to beauty. Moreover, this too is worth saying: in history

^ A title or quasi-title awarded for victory in both wrestling and the pancratium on the same day. Nicostratus was the seventh to do this (Pausanias, V, 21, 9-18). The young Quintilian saw him in his old age about a.d. 50 (Quint. II. 8, 14).

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complete fiction and praise that is heavily biased on one side does not even give pleasure to an audience, if you leave out the common rabble and take note of those who will listen in the spirit of judges and in-

deed of

fault-finders as well.

Nothing

will

get past

their scrutiny: their eyes are keener than Argus's and all over their body; they test each expression
like a

"

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"fij/

money-changer, rejecting at once what is false but accepting current coin that is legal tender and in correctly minted. These are the people to keep mind when you write history; do not give the burst slightest thought to the rest even if they themselves with applauding. But if you neglect them and sweeten your history beyond reason with stories and eulogies and the other kinds of
it like Heracles in Lydia. seen pictures of him as slave probably to Omphale, dressed in a most outlandish way:

If

flattery,

you

will

make

You have

Omphale is wearing his lion's skin and carrying his club in her hand, as if she were Heracles for certain, while he has on a saffron and purple gown
carding wool and getting rapped with phale's sandal. It's a shocking spectacle:

and

is

Omthe

clothing hangs off his body and is ill-fitting, and his divine masculinity is disgracefully femim'sed.

The majority will possibly applaud you for this, but those few whom you despise will laugh delightedly till they are sated when they see the incongruity,
lack of proportion, and loose structure of the work, for each part has its own peculiar beauty and if you alter

that you

make

it

ugly and

futile.

need not say that


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may be pleasing to one man, him who is and praised, annoying to others, especially if they contain monstrous overstatements, the kind that most people make when they seek favour from those who are praised, persisting until they have made their flattery obvious to everyone. They do not know how to do it with any skill nor do they cover up their no, they rush at it laying it all on obsequiousness So they do not thick, so implausible and so naive. get what they want most: those they praise hate them the more and turn their backs on them as toadies, and rightly so, especially if they are manly in
;

spirit.

That
;

is

what happened to Aristobulus when he

wrote of the single combat between Alexander and Porus he read this particular passage in his work to Alexander thinking to give great pleasure to the King by ascribing falsely to him certain deeds of valour and inventing achievements too great to be true. They happened to be sailing on the River Hydaspes at the time, and Alexander took the book and threw it straight into the water with the remark " You deserve the same treatment, Aristobulus, for fighting single-handed duels for my sake like that and killing elephants with one throw of the javelin." Indeed it was certain that Alexander would be angry at such a thing he had not put up with the effrontery of the engineer who had promised to fashion Athos into his portrait and shape the mountain to the King's likeness. Alexander at once realised that the man was a flatterer and had no longer employed him.
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Where then is the pleasure in this, unless a man is so utterly stupid as to enjoy praise that can be proved groundless there and then ? Take the case of the
ugly men and women, particularly women, who ask the painter to make them as beautiful as possible, thinking they will be better looking if the painter bedecks them with a richer red and mixes plenty of white into his pigment. Most of our historians today are like that, courting private whim and the profit they expect from their

One might well loathe them as blatant history. flatterers of no ability in their own time, while to
posterity they make the whole business of written If anyone history suspect by their exaggerations. supposes that giving pleasure has to be mixed into all historical writing, there are other refinements of The run of style that combine pleasure with truth. historians neglect these and pile up tasteless incongruities one upon the other.

describing this very war. And in the name of the Graces let no one disbelieve what I am going to say. I would swear to its veracity if it were in good taste to attach an affidavit to an essay. One of them began straightway "with the Muses, summoning the goddesses to help him with his work. You see how

Well then, I'll tell you what I remember hearing some historians say recently in Ionia, and indeed only the other day in Achaia, when they were

appropriate this opening was, how apt for historical Then a writing, how suited to this type of book little further on he compared our general to Achilles, and the Persian King to Thersites, not understand!

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ing that Achilles would have been a better name for him if he was killing a Hector rather than a Thersites and if a hero fled before, " and one far greater pursued him." ^

Then he brought in a bit of praise on his own account, telling how worthy he was to record such outstanding deeds. Now he was on his way home and praising his
native Miletus, adding that this was an improvement on Homer, who had not mentioned his native land at Then at the end of this introduction he made a all. clear and explicit promise to glorify the achievements of our side and beat down the barbarians on his own with all his might. Then he began his narrative by " That relating the causes of the war in this way cursed scoundrel Vologesus began the war for the
:

following reason."

So much

for

him.

Another, a keen emulator

of Thucydides,

modelling himself closely on his name the original, like him began with his own most graceful of all beginnings, redolent of Attic ** Crepereius Calpurnianus of Pomthyme. Listen: the wrote history of the war between the peiopolis Parthians and the Romans beginning at its very outset."^ After a beginning like that why should the sort of speech he made in I tell you the rest Armenia (he brought in the Corcyrean orator ^ in person for that) or what sort of plague he brought down on the people of Nisibis who declined to take

^ 2

Homer,

An

The quotation is not quite accurate. II. xxii, 158. adaptation of the opening sentence of Thucydides'

History.
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side (he lifted that from Thucydides in entirety except just for the Pelasgicum and the Long Walls where those who had at that time caught

Roman

the plague had settled.^)?


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it

even

began in Ethiopia," as in Thucydides, then " " " and the vast territory descended into Egypt of the great King," where it stayed and a good For my part I left him still burying thing too his wretched Athenians at Nisibis and went away knowing just what he was going to say after I had gone. But this is quite a fashion just now, to

suppose that you're following Thucydides' style if you alter what he says a little and write that.

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is

a point

almost

left

out:

this

same

historian has called


their Latin

many arms and

war-engines by
for ditch,

names, as well as the words

bridge and so on. Imagine please the high quality of his history and how it suits Thucydides to have
these Italic words mixed up >vith the Attic, adding a distinctive touch of colour like the toga's purple
stripe

a perfect match

Another of them has compiled a bare record of the events and set it down on paper, completely prosaic and ordinary, such as a soldier or artisan or pedlar following the army might have put together as a diary
^

Thuc.

II,

47-54. References to Athenian topography were

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of daily events. However, this amateur was not so bad it was quite obvious at the beginning what he was, and his work has cleared the ground for some future historian of taste and ability. The only fault his headings were too pompous I found was this " for the place his books can hold Callimorphus, of Sixth the Lancers, History of the Parthian surgeon " there followed the number War, Book so-and-so of each book. Another thing, his preface was far too frigid he put it like this it was proper for a surgeon to write history, since Asclepius was the son of Apollo and Apollo was leader of the Muses and lord of all culture ; also because, after beginning in Ionic, for some reason I can't fathom he indeed the suddenly changed to the vernacular, using " Ionic forms of" medicine," "attempt," how many," " diseases," but taking the rest from the language of everyday, most of it street-corner talk. If I have to mention a philosopher let his name remain unknown. I shall speak only of his general views and his recent writings in Corinth. They went beyond all expectation. Right at the beginning in the first sentence of his introduction he used dialectic on his readers in his eagerness to show off a very clever argument. This was to the effect that only the philosopher was fit to write history. Then a In little later came one syllogism, then another. short his introduction was sheer dialectic in every figure of the syllogism. His flattery was nauseating

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becoming a philosopher and a long, grey beard to say, as he did in his introduction, that it will be a special distinction of our commander that even philosophers think fit to recount his deeds. Such a comment he should have left for us, if anybody, to think of and not made it himself. be right to omit the one who Again it would not " I come to speak of Romans and began as follows " The Persians Persians," and a little later said " It were foredoomed to come to grief," and again: " and was Osroes, whom the Greeks call Oxyrhoes many more things of this sort, all in Ionic. Do you see ? He was like Crepereius, only Crepereius was
: :

a wonderful Herodotus.
also like

copy

of

Thucydides,

this

man

of

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!

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dark.

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is

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Think how we should

essential this

to history

with-

not have

known what happened

Because of weakness in matters of importance or ignorance of what to say, they turn to this sort of description of scenery and caves when they chance on a host of great doings they are like a newly-rich
;

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who

has just inherited his master's fortune:


:

he knows neither how to dress nor how to take his meal in the proper way no, he plunges in, when for instance birds and pork and hares are put before him, stuffing himself with a soup or kippers until he bursts from eating. Well, this man I mentioned described incredible wounds and monstrous deaths, how one man was wounded in the big toe and died on the spot, and how Priscus the general j ust gave a shout and twenty-seven of the enemy fell dead. And in the number slain he even contradicted the
officers'

he

despatches with his false figures at Europus, enemy lost 70,236 killed, while the Romans lost just two and had nine wounded. I do not think
:

said, the

anyone in his senses would accept that. There is another not unimportant matter because he is an out-and-out Atticist and has purified his speech down to the last syllable, he thought fit to change the Latin names and use Greek forms
:

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Again, concerning the death of Severianus, this same man wrote that all the others had been deceived in supposing he perished by the sword he died by fasting because he thought this the most painless way of dying. He was unaware that the whole

business only took, say, three days while those who keep away from food generally last a week unless

7'

one assumes that Osroes was standing about waiting for Severianus to die from hunger and for that reason did not attack during the week. And where, my dear Philo, are we to put those " who use poetic words in their history, who say The thud," siege-engine whirled, the wall fell with a big " and again in another part of this fine work, Edessa thus was girt with the crash of arms and all was
the general mused clangour and alarum," and how best to attack the wall."^ Then in the middle of this sort of thing he stuffed a lot of words that " the prefect sent were cheap, vulgar, and mean " " and the soldiers got His Majesty a despatch " " and themselves the necessaries they'd by now " and so had their baths and were hanging about on. It's as if a tragic actor had mounted a high buskin on one foot and had a sandal tied under the other.
"

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you may see others writing introductions dramatic, and excessively long, so that you expect what follows to be marvellous to hear, but for the body of their history they bring on something so tiny and so undistinguished that it rebrilliant,
^ These writers use words with a poetical Homer, Hesiod and other poets.

tradition

from

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sembles a child, some Cupid ^ you may have seen one playing and putting on a huge mask of Heracles or a Titan. The audience there and then are calling " a mountain was in labour." out to them In my opinion the right way to do it is not like there must be a general uniformity, a unity of this colour, and the body must be in proportion with the head, so that when you get a golden helmet the breastplate is not a silly patchwork of rags or rotten hides with a wicker-work shield and pigskin greaves. You can see plenty of writers like that, who put the head of the Colossus of Rhodes on the body of a dwarf. Then again others produce bodies without any heads works lacking an introduction that begin at once
:

in support they quote Xenophon, " Darius and Parysatis had two where he begins 2 sons," and other old writers, not knowing that there
;

with the narrative

are such things as virtual prefaces

by most people; we
where.

shall

unrecognised demonstrate this else-

Yet we can put up with all these things as far as they are faults of expression and arrangement of material but to misplace localities even, not just by parasangs but by whole days' marches, what fineness of style does that resemble ? One man, for example, who had never met a Syrian nor even heard as they say " " about such things, assembled barber-shop gossip his facts so carelessly that when speaking of Europus " he said: Europus is situated in Mesopotamia, two it was colonised days' journey from the Euphrates
; ;

^
2

Little slave-boys

were called

"
Cupids.'

The opening of the Anabasis. I.e., prefaces by function not by form.

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^ Even this was not enough for by men of Edessa." him my own birthplace, Samosata, this fine writer in the same book Ufted, acropoHs, walls and all, and transplanted to Mesopotamia, so as to surround it by both rivers, which passed close to it on either side and almost touched the walls. How ridiculous, Philo, if I were now to argue a proof with you that I am not a Parthian or from Mesopotamia, where this wonderful historian has taken and transplanted

me!
Zeus, that, too, is a highly plausible story the fellow told about Severianus, taking his oath that he heard it from a man who had survived this very action : he said that Severianus did not want to die by the sword nor take poison nor hang himself, but thought of a dramatic death, strange and novel in its boldness : he happened to have huge drinking-glasses of the finest crystal, and when he had decided to die at all costs he broke the largest of the bowls and used one of the pieces to kill himself by cutting his throat with the glass. As if there were no dagger, no javelin to be found to bring him a manly and heroic death! Then since Thucydides made a funeral speech over the first to die in that famous war ^ he thought he too ought to make a speech over Severianus. For all of them vie with Thucydides, who was in no way responsible for our troubles in Armenia. So after burying Severianus in magnificent style he makes a centurion, an Afranius Silo, mount the tomb as a rival to Pericles ; his rhetoric was so strange and so ex-

By

same

^ Europus was actually situated on the Euphrates the farther shore from Mesopotamia. 2 The Peloponnesjaij War. Tbuo. II, 34-36.

itself,

on

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avrco

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fie

vq rag Xaptra?

rod yeXcorog Kal SaKpvcrat vtto ^ fidXiara OTTore 6 pTJrcop 6 K(j>p6vLos irrl rcAct rod
TToAAa
Trdvv

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elra
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c/xc/xi/t^to

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Alavreiov
^i<f>os,

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yap to
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nva rrjv Kopcoviha' vyva>s irdw /cat ujs

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iavrov

ctti

rep rd<f)a)

opcovrojv d'nia<j>a^v ovk dvd^iog cov fid rov 'Evua-

TrdvTCjv

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TLS.

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aggerated that by the Graces I just cried and cried with laughing, especially when this orator Afranius at the end of his speech wept and with doleful lamentation reminded us of those expensive dinners His last flourish was after Ajax he and pledges drew his sword and with true nobility, as was proper for an Afranius, slew himself on the tomb in the sight of all by the God of Havoc he deserved to die long before for making such a speech. All the onlookers,
!

-A^

he

said,

when they saw

this

praised Afranius to the skies.

were amazed and For my part I voted

against him on every count for just stopping short of recalling the soups and shell-fish and weeping

over the

memory
for

him most
I

of the pancakes, but I blamed dying without first cutting the throat

who staged the show. many more writers like these, I but shall name just a few before turning friend, my to my other undertaking, my advice how to write history better. There are some who leave out or
of the historian

could count off

skate over the important and interesting events, and from lack of education, taste, and knowledge of what to mention and what to ignore dwell very fully and
laboriously on the most insignificant happenings; this is like failing to observe and praise and describe
for those

>
iS
"^

who do not know it the entire grandeur and supreme quality of the Zeus at Olympia, and instead " " " and admiring the good workmanship good " " " finish of the footstool and the good proportions of the base, and developing all this with great
concern.

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For instance, I myself heard a man cover the Battle of Europus in less than seven complete lines, but he spent twenty or even more measures of the water-clock on a frigid description that was of no interest to us of how a Moorish horseman, Mausacas by name, was wandering over the mountains because he was thirsty and found some Syrian country-folk setting out their lunch ; at first they were afraid of him, but then when they found he was one of their friends they welcomed him and gave him food for one of them happened to have been abroad and visited Mauretania, as a brother of his was campaigning in that country. Long stories and digressions followed as to how he
;

in Mauretania and how he had many elephants grazing together at one spot and how he was almost eaten by a lion and how big the fish were he bought in Caesarea. And our

had gone hunting


seen

famous historian forgot the great killings, charges, imposed truces, guards, and counter-guards at Europus, and until late evening stood watching Malchion
the Syrian buying huge wrasses cheap in Caesarea. If night had not come down he might have dined with him when the wrasses were cooked. If this had not been painstakingly included in the history we should have missed some important details and it would have been an intolerable loss to the Romans if Mausacas, the Moor, had not found a drink when he was thirsty but returned to the camp supperless.

Yet how much

else far

more
!

essential

am

leaving out at this point

How

a flute-girl

willingly came to

them from the neighbouring village, how they exchanged gifts, the Moor giving to Malchion a spear
^
' a<f>ls

rapf*

ras N; i<f>iaTa.s T. dv Schaefer rdxa MSS,


:

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and he giving Mausacas a buckle, and many other similar incidents, the high-spots of the Battle of

To sum up, one might rightly say~that Europus suchrnpeople do not look at the rose itself, but accurately observe its thorns that grow along the stem.
!

f^ Another man, my dear Philo, is also quite ridiculous he had never set a foot outside Corinth nor even left home for Cenchreae he had certainly not seen ^'^^ Syria or Armenia yet he began as I recall as follows '^''"'^ ^^ ^ "Ears are less trustworthy than eyes. I write then ^ what I have seen, not what I have heard." And he
:

has seen everything so keenly that he said that the serpents of the Parthians (this is a banner they use to indicate number a serpent precedes, I think, a thousand men), he said that they were alive and of enormous size that they are born in Persia a little way beyond Iberia; that they are bound to long poles and, raised on high, create terror while the Parthians are coming on from a distance; that in the encounter itself at close quarters they are freed and sent against the enemy; that in fact they had swallowed many of our men in this way and coiled themselves around others and suffocated and crushed them. He himself had been an eyewitness of this, he said, making his observations, however, in safety from a tall tree. He was quite right in not meeting the beasts at close quarters: we should not now have such an excellent historian, who off-hand did great and glorious deeds in this war for he faced many a battle and was wounded near Sura, obviously in a walk from Cornel Hill to Lerna. He read all this to an audience of Corinthians who knew for a fact that he had not

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on

[JLT^Se

Kara tol^ov

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even seen a battle painted on a wall. In fact he had no knowledge of what weapons or engines were " " ** like or of the words regiments or muster-rolls." A lot he cared if he spoke of a movement in column as a transverse battle-line and a frontal movement in line as a movement in column One fine historian compressed all that had happened from beginning to end in Armenia, Syria, Mesopotamia, by the Tigris, in Media into less than five hundred lines, incomplete at that, and after this Yet the title that he says he has composed a history. attached to it is almost longer than the book "A
!

description of recent exploits of Romans in Armenia, Mesopotamia, and Media, by Antiochianus the victor " sacred to Apollo I suppose he has once been winner

in the long foot race in the boys* competition.


I

have heard of one who even included the future


Vologesus, killing how he capture was going to be thrown to the
:

in his history

the

of

the

of Osroes

the triumph we have longed for so much in such a prophetic state was he as he hastened to the end of his composition. Why he even founded a city in Mesopotamia, outstanding in He is still consize, and of unsurpassed beauty. sidering and taking thought, however, whether he
lions and, to cap everything,

should call

it

Nicaea, after the victory, or Concord or


It is still

Peacetown.

undecided and we have no

name
and

for that beautiful city full of copious nonsense historical drivel. He has promised to write of

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Kal eirl tco dpidpLco tcov ^l^Xlojv eTt aepLVVvopLevoc Kal /xaAtcrra enl Tats einypa^als , ^^ tov helvos Kal yap av Kal avrat TrayyeXoLOL" " Kal av' Toadhe VLKuJv Ilap^tSos" WapOLKcjv
eXdrj,

dXXog TTpaJTOv, hevTepov **, cu? 'At^iSo? S-^Aoi^ otl. " ydp Arjpir^TpLov doTeLOTepov vapd ttoXv dveyvcov *' ** ^ ovh* cu? evyeXojTi SayoAacrcrecos' HapOovLKLKa TTOiTjoaodaL Kal emoKCj^ai ra? loToplag ovtcj fCoAa? ovGag, oAAa tov xPV^^H'OV eveKa. ws ootls dv raura Kal ra rotaura <f>evyr) ttoXv pLepos yjhr] is TO opdojs Gvyypd^eiv ovtos TrpoeiXri^ev,^ pLoXXov

he

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ws

tcjv

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future happenings in India and the circumnavigation of the outer sea and this is not just a promise the " " Indian History is already done, introduction to his and the Third Legion, the Celts, and a small detachment of Moors have all crossed the River Indus with What they are going to do and how they Cassius. will receive the charge of the elephants, our wonderful historian will tell us before very long by letter from Muziris^ or the Oxydraci. This is the sort of nonsense they talk in floods through their lack of schooling. They neither see what is worth looking at nor, if they did see it, have They they the ability to give it suitable expression. " invent and manufacture whatever comes to the tip

of an unlucky tongue," as they say, and pride themselves in the number of their books and in particular on the titles, which again are completely ridiculous " " So-and-so's Parthian victories in so many books " " Atthis Parthis I and II," like and again: of course. Someone else did it much more stylishly " The Parthonicica of have read it myself I " .^ not to make fun Demetrius of Sagalassus of them and pour scorn on histories so fine but with For whoever avoids these a practical end in view. faults and their like has already mastered a great part of what makes correct historical writing, or,
'

rather, needs but little more, if logic is right when it says that to abolish one of two direct opposites is to

establish the other instead.

Well now, someone

will say,

cleared your ground and cut out


^ 2

you have carefully all the thorns and

Mangalore (Cranganore ?) There is a gap in the MSS here.

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pdroL eKKeKOfifievaL eloL, ra Se rail' oAAcui' ipeiina 'qSrj eK7T(j)6prjTai,, Kal et rt, rpaxv, tJSyj /cat rovro Xelov ioTTLv, ware OLKoSofxeL tJStj /cat avros 0)S Sel^rjs ovK dvarpeiJjaL fxovov to tcov oAAcov yevvdSas d)v aAAa rt /cat avros iTnvoijoaL Se^iov /cat o ouSet? dv, oAA' ovB* 6 McofioSt iiojp/qGaadai hvvairo 34 Oi7^t ToLvuv Tov dpLGTa loropiav avyypd^ovra hvo fxev ravra Kopvcfyaiorara OLKodev )(OVTa Gvveoiv re ttoXltlkt^v /cat hvvapav ipjxrjvevT^/cetv, TLKrjV, TTjv fiev dSiSaKTOv TL rrjs cf^vaecos Sojpov, rj

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brambles, and all the debris has been carried away and all the rough places are now smooth, so now build something yourself to show you are good not only at overturning other peoples' edifices but at thinking out something clever yourself which no one, not even

Momus,^ could censure.


I maintain then that the best writer of history comes ready equipped with these two supreme qualities: political understanding and power of expression the former is an unteachable gift of nature, while
;

power of expression may come through a deal of practice, continual toil, and imitation of the ancients. These then need no guiding rules and I have no "freed to advise on them; my book does not promise to make people understanding and quick who are not so by nature. It would be worth a good deal everything rather if it could remodel and transform things to that extent, or make gold out of lead or silver from tin, or manufacture a Titormus from a Conon or a Milo

from a Leotrophides.^ Then where is technique and advice helpful ? Not for the creation but for the appropriate employment of qualities. For instance, Iccus, Herodicus, Theon, and the other trainers would not promise you to take on Perdiccas if indeed he and not Antiochus, the

1 Momus was a literary personification of fault-finding he appears in Lucian's Zevs Rants, Loeb, vol. ii, p. 119. 2 Conon and Leotrophides were little men, Titormus and Milo of great size and strength.

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^AvTLoxos 6 rod SeAcu/coi; a7TO<j>aivt,v ^OXvfiTTLOVLKTjv Kal GcaycVct to) Qaaicp ri IloAuhd^avri rep TtKorovaGalo) dvrlTraXov, oAAa rrfv
firj

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rrpos

V7toSo)(7jv

rrjg

yvfivaoTLKTJs TTapd ttoXv dfjielvoj dTTO(f)aiveiv fMerd ware diTearo} /cat rjfjLCvv ro 7Ti<j)dovov TTJs" Tcxvrjs.

^a/xev i<f>^ ovroj Kal p^oAcTTo) ro) TTpdyfiart Vp7]KvaL' ov yap ovTLvovv irapaiXa^ovres dTTO^aiveiv cruyypa<f>a aAAa rep <f>voL avvercp Kal dpiara irpos <f>aiJLv,
rijs V7tog)(GC09 cl rexyrjv
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rovro

rjaKTjfjLevcp VTTohei^eiv ohovs rivas dpddg roiavrai <j>aivovrai) at? ;^pa/i.vo? ddrrov dv Kal evjxapearepov reXeaetev d^pt ^ irpds rdv 36 OKOTTOV. Kairoi ov yap dv ^airjs dnpoGSeij rov (TVVr6v elvai rrjs ri^vrfS Kal StSacr/caAia? (Lv dyvoel' CTTcl Kav cKLddpL^c fjLTj piadd)v Kal rjvXcL Kal ndvra dv TjTTLGraro. vvv hk fjurj fxadajv ovk dv ri avrwv X^LpovpyijaeLcv, vnoSei^avros Se rivos paard re dv fiddoL Kal v fierax^tpicraLro i<f>* avrov. Kat roLWV Kal 'qpuv roiovros Tt? 6 fJLaOrjrrjs vvv 37 TTapahehooBcD crvveZvai re Kal elireZv ovk dyewrjSt dAA* d^v hehopKOJS, olos Kal Trpdy/xacrt ;^p7y(7aCT^at dv el eTTirpaireir), Kal yvcofi-qv arpartojrLKijv dAAct jjLerd ttJ? TToXirLKrj^ Kal epLTTeiplav arparrjyLKTjv c^etv, Kal VT) Aia Kat ev urparoTrehcp yeyovojs TTore Kal yvpLva^opievovs r^ rarrofievovg arpartcoras ^ eojpaKd)^ Kal dirXa elhu)S Kal firjxciVTJiJLara, en he Kal Tt em Kepcos Kal ri eirl fiercoTTOV, ttcjs ol Xoxoi, TTcos OL LTTTrels Kal TToOev Kal Tt e^eXavveiv rt ire-

Xoyovg
(1 St)

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son of Seleucus,

HISTORY

is the one who fell in love with his stepmother and wasted away because of it and make him an Olympic victor, a rival to Theagenes the Thasian, or Polydamas of Scotussa, but only that if they were given a subject inclined by nature to receive athletic training they would by their technique make him much better. So let me too not

suffer this

reproach when I make my promise and say have discovered a technique in a matter so important and so difficult, for I do not promise to take on anyone you like and make him an historian no, merely to demonstrate to a man who is intelligent by nature and well trained in expressing himself certain direct routes (if indeed that is what they appear to be) which if he will use them will help him more quickly and more easily to the attainment of You would not say that the intelligent his goal. man has no need of technique and instruction where he is ignorant ^otherwise he would play the lyre, blow the pipe, and understand everything without learning. As it is, he could not do any of this \N'ithout first learning, and with someone to guide him he >vill learn most easily and perform them well for himself. So give us now a student of this kind not without ability to understand and express himself, keensighted, one who could handle affairs if they were turned over to him, a man with the mind of a soldier combined with that of a good citizen, and a knowledge of generalship yes, and one who has at some time been in a camp and has seen soldiers exercising or of arms and engines again, let drilling and knows " " " him know what in column," what in line mean, how the companies of infantry, how the cavalry, are " " " inand manoeuvred, the meaning of deploy
that
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pieXavvetVy /cat oXcus ov tcjv KaroiKihicxyv ns ovh^ otos TTLoreveiv fxovov tols dxrayyeAAoucrti^. 38 MaAtcrra Se Kal irpo rcov Trdvrwv eXevdcpos

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who must

vest ", in short not a stay-at-home or one

rely on what people tell him. Above all and before everything else, let his mind be free, let him fear no one and expect nothing, or else he will be like a bad judge who sells his verdict to curry favour or gratify hatred. He must not be concerned that Philip has had his eye put out by Aster of Amphipolis, the archer at Olynthus he must show him exactly as he was. Nor must he mind if Alexander is going to be angry when he gives a clear

account of the cruel murder of Clitus at the banquet. Neither will Cleon with his great power in the assembly and his mastery of the platform frighten him from saying that he was murderous and lunatic nor even the entire city of the Athenians if he records the disaster of Sicily, the capture of Demosthenes, and the death of Nicias, the thirst of the troops, the sort of water they drank, and how most of them were For he will think quite slain as they drank it. rightly that no man of sense will blame him if he gives an account of unlucky or stupid actions he has not been responsible for them, he has merely told the tale. So that if they are ever defeated in a sea-fight it is not he who sank them and if they run away it is not he who drives them on, unless he neg:

lected to say a prayer when he ought. Surely if by ignoring them or reversing them he could set them
right, it

would have been very easy for Thucydides with one insubstantial pen to overturn the counterwall at Epipolae, and sink the trireme of Hermocrates, to transfix that cursed man Gylippus in the
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act of blocking the roads with walls and ditches, and into the stonefinally to throw the Syracusans quarries while the Athenians sailed round Sicily and No, when what Italy as Alcibiades had first hoped. is done is done I fancy that even Clotho could not unspin their destiny or Atropus change their course.^ The historian's sole task is to tell the tale as it happened. This he cannot do as long as he is afraid of Artaxerxes when he is his physician or hopes to get a purple
cufta,^ a gold necklet, and a Nisaean horse as a reward for the eulogies in his work.^ No Xenophon ^\ill do that. On the (a just historian), no Thucydides

contrary, even if he personally hates certain people he will think the public interest far more binding, and regard truth as worth more than enmity, and if he has a friend he will nevertheless not spare him if he errs. This, as I have said, is the one thing peculiar to history, and only to Truth must sacrifice be made. When a man is going to write history, everything In short, the one standard, the else he must ignore. one yardstick is to keep in view not your present audience but those who will meet your work hereafter.

Whoever

serves the present will rightly be counted a flatterer a person on whom historj^ long ago right from the beginning has turned its back, as much as has physical culture on the art of make-up. For example they record this remark of Alexander's: " " to come I should be glad, Onesicritus," he said, back to life for a little while after my death to dis-

1 Clotho and Atropus were Fates. Clotho ("Spinster") spun the thread of life, Atropus (" Nevertum ") severed it. There is a play on the names in the Greek. 2 A Median garment with sleeves. ^ Referring to Ctesias of Cnidus. He spent seventeen years at court and wrote a history of Persia.

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If

HISTORY

how men read these present events then. now they praise and welcome them do not be sur:

prised they think, every one of them, that this is a Homer indeed in fine bait to catch my goodwill."

general tended towards the mythical in his account of Achilles, yet some nowadays are inclined to believe him they cite as important evidence of his truthfulness the single fact that he did not write about him
;

during his lifetime


lying.

they cannot find any motive for

the sort of man the historian should a friend of free expression and the truth, intent, as the comic poet^ says, on calling a fig a fig and a trough a trough, giving nothing to hatred or to friendship, sparing no one, showing neither pity nor shame nor obsequiousness, an impartial judge, well disposed to all men up to the point of not giving one side more than its due, in his books a stranger and a man without a country, independent, subject to no sovereign, not reckoning what this or that man will think, but stating the facts. Thucydides laid down this law very well he disThat, then,
:

is

be

fearless, incorruptible, free,

tinguished virtue and vice in historical writing, when he saw Herodotus greatly admired to the point where his books were named after the Muses. For Thucydides says that he is writing a possession for evermore rather than a prize-essay for the occasion, that he does not welcome fiction but is leaving to posterity the true account of what happened. He brings in, too, the question of usefulness and what is, surely, the that if ever again men purpose of sound history find themselves in a hke situation they may be
:

Aristophanes, on the dubious authority of Tzetzes Kock, Comic, Qraw. Fragm, III, p. 451).

(see

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accuracy. For just as we set free expression and truthfulness as the target for the historian's mind, so for his language this should be the first aim to set forth the matter exactly and to expound it as lucidly as possible, using neither unknown or out-of-the-way words nor that vulgar language of the market-place, but such as ordinary folk may understand and the educated commend. Then, let figures adorn the work that give no offence and in particular appear unlaboured otherwise he makes language seem like
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the Mysians' country ^ in the same way let him look now at the Roman side in his own way and tell us how he saw it from on high, now at the Persian side, then at both sides, if the battle is joined. In the engagement itself let him not look at a single part or a unless it be a single cavalryman or foot soldier Brasidas leaping forward or a Demosthenes beating ^ but first, the generals (and he off his attempt to land should have listened to any exhortations of theirs), the plan, method, and purpose of their battle array. When the battle is joined he should look at both sides and weigh the events as it were in a balance, joining All this should be in in both pursuit and flight.

moderation, avoiding excess, bad taste, and impetuosity; he should preserve an easy detachment: let him call a halt here and move over there if necessary, then free himself and return if events there summon him; let him hurry everywhere, follow a chronological

arrangement as

far as

he can, and

fly

from

Armenia to Media, from there with a


critical situation.

single scurry

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torians have to relate is fact for it has already happened


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rangement and exposition. So they must look not for what to say but how to say it. In brief, we must consider thatthe writer of history should be like Phidias or Praxiteles or Alcamenes or one of the other sculptors they certainly never manufactured their own gold or
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has received

its proper praise. After all his preparations are made he will sometimes begin without a preface, when the subject

matter requires no preliminary exposition. But even then he will use a virtual preface to clarify what he is
going to say.

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and outlines the main events. The best historians have written prefaces of this sort: Herodotus, writing history to preserve events from time's decay, great and glorious as they were, telling of Greek victories and barbarian defeat Thucydides too, with his expectation that the war would be great, more memorable, and more important than any that had
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you

will

You need especial discretion in descriptions of mountains, fortifications, and rivers, to avoid the appearance of a tasteless display of your word-power and of indulging your own interests at the expense of the history you will touch on them lightly for the sake of expediency or clarity, then change the subject, avoiding the limed twig set there and all temptation of this sort, as you see Homer doing in his greatness of mind poet though he is he runs by Tantalus, and Ixion and Tityus and the rest. But if Parthenius or Euphorion or Callimachus were the narrator, think how many words he could have used to carry the water to Tantalus' lips How many to set Ixion whirling! Take Thucydides himself: he makes little use of this sort of writing, and see how quickly he gets away when he has been describing an engine or explaining a necessary and useful plan of investment, or the plan of Epipolae, or the harbour of Syracuse. When he appears long-winded in his account of the plague just think of the facts and you will realise his rapidity and how the pressure of events holds him as he tries to get away.
;
:
!

*
3
eri.

oF
^

and edd.

'Ett.

ws other MSS. Gesner and Hemsterhuys


:

tjv

Iti TroXecov

(sic)

rj

TToXcios

N:

rj

In

TroXecov

other

MSS. (some omit

rj).

69

THE WORKS OF LUCIAN


58

*Hy

Se ttotc

/cat

Xoyovs ipovvrd

rt,va Seijar) ela-

dyeiv, /xaAtorra /xcv ioLKora rw rrpoaajTrco kol tco TTpdyfiari otKela Xeyeadw, eneira (hs aa^iarara KOL ravra. ttXtjv i^elrai gol totc /cat p7]ropvaai
/cat

5^

imhel^ai ttjv tcjv Xoyojv SeLvoTTjra. "EiTraivoL p,v yap rj ifjoyoL vdvu TTC^etcr/LteVot /cat
KOI
dGVKO<f)dvTr]rOl,
/Cat

7TplOKpipLVOL

/XCTCl

Ta^^t? /cat p,r) a/catpot, CTTCt cfoi Tou SiKaGTqpLOV KLvot ^loiv, Kal Trjv avrrjv SeoTTOfiTTO) alrlav cfct? ^iXaTrexdrnxovajs Karrjyo' povvTL rcjjv ttXcIgtcov /cat hiarpL^rjv noLovpLevu) to
dnoheL^cajv
/cat

7Tpdyp,a

(1)S

KaTqyopeiv

fiaXXov

-^

laropelv

rd

7T7rpayp,va,

60

Kat

jjLrjv

/cat

fivdog et rig TrapefineGOL, Ac/ctco?

V pLeGO) fliv, OV fJLTjV TTLGTOjreos TrdvTcos, aAA dereog rols ottojs dv iOeXcoGLv CLKdGOVGi Trepi avTov' Gv 8' d/ctVSuvos" /cat rrpos ovSercpov intp-

p7TGrpog.
61

To 8' oAoV KiVOV /LtOt pLCpLVTJGO TToAAct/CtS' yCtp Tovro cpw /cat /xi^ Trpos" to irapov p,6vov opcov ypd<l> ws ol vvv inaLveGovral g Kat Ttp^rjGovGLV, aXXd Tov GvpLiravTos alcovog CTTo;)^acr/xeVo9 TTpos Tovs 7TLTa /xoAAov Gvyypa(f) /cat Trap* iKeivcov drraLTei tov puGdov ttjs ypa^rfs, d)S XeyrjTaL nepi

iKelvos ficvTOL cXcvdepos dvrjp tJv /cat TTappTjGias pieGTOS,^ ovhkv ovtc /coAa/ccurt/cov ovt hovXoTTpTTs oXX aArJ^cta cVt Trdcrt.** tout', t ^tTO Ga)<j>pOVOLT] Tt?, UTTCp TTCtOra? TO,? J'W cATTtSa?

"

GOV,

62

av, ouTco? dAtyo;(;povtoi;9 ovGas. 'Opas" TOP' KvtStoi^ Kivov


7T0LrjGv;
^

apx^'TeKTOva
cvrt

otov

OLKoSopL-qoas

ydp tov
fua^ds

T^ Octpo)

fitaros

FGH

edd.

FN

and

others.

70

HOW TO WRITE
If a person has to
all let his
1
1

HISTORY

pi

be introduced to make a speech, language suit his person and his subject, and next let these also be as clear as possible. It is then, however, that you can play the orator and
above

show your eloquence. Eulogy and censure


free

will be careful and considered, from slander, supported by evidence, cursory,

and not inopportune, for those involved are not court, and you will receive the same censure

in

as

ts(^^quarrelsome
of events.

Theopompus, who impeached nearly everybody in a spirit and made a business of it, to the extent that he was a prosecutor rather than a recorder

Again, if a myth comes along you must tell it but not believe it entirely no, make it known for your audience to make of it what they will you run no
;

risk

and lean to neither

side.

In general please remember this I shall repeat it time and again do not write with your eye just on the present, to win praise and honour from your con-

temporaries
posterity so that it
full
:

aim at eternity and prefer to write


:

for

present your bill for your book to them, " He was a free man, may be said of you

of frankness, with no adulation or servility anywhere, but everywhere truthfulness." That, if a

man were

sensible, he would value above all present hopes, ephemeral as they are. Do you know what the Cnidian architect did.-*

He built the tower on Pharos,

the mightiest and most


71

THE WORKS OF LUCIAN


TTVpyov, [xdyiarov Kal KaXXicrrov epycov dTrdvrwv, (1)9 TWpcrevoLro 0,77' avrov roXs vaurtAAo/xeVots" 7rt TToAu ttJ? daXdrrrjg /cat fxrj Karacfyepoivro is rrjv

UapaLTOvlav, 7Tay)(aXe7TOv ,

cSs"

<j)acnv,

ovoav Kal

d^VKTOv
ovofjua

^ et

ns ijXTreaoL is rd epfxara.
pikv

ot/coSo/xT^cjas

ovv TO epyov evSodev


iTreypai/jev,

Kara

tCjv Xldcov to avrov

iTTiXp^croLS

Se rirdvcp Kal
rrdvv

im-

KaXvi/jas iTTeypaipe rovvofxa


elhcjs,

rov t6t ^auiXevovros ,


oXiyov
)(p6vov

OTTep

Kal

iyivero,

(jvvKTTeaovpLva

fxev

"

rco

p^pta/xart

rd ypa/x/xara
TrXojL^opLevwv .**

iKcjiairquoyievov Be,

Tia)GTparos ^^i(j>dvovs Kvtvrrep

hios

Oeols
oz)S'

GojrrjpcrLV

rcov

ovTcos

iKLvos is Tov Tore Kaipov ovBi rov avrov pLov rov oXiyov icopa, dAA' etV rov vvv Kal
fiivrj

rov det, d;^t dv icrn^Kj) 6 TWpyos Kal


7)

avrov

rexvr].
X/317

63

roLwv Kal

ttjv

laroptav ovroj ypd<j)aOaL

ovv rep dXrjdeX jJidXXov irpos rrjv piiXXovaav eATrtSa rjiTcp ovv KoXaKeia rrpos ro rjSv rols vvv iiraivovpiivoLS. ovros croL Kavojv Kal orddpLrj loropias
hiKaias. Kal et pukv aradp,i^aovrai nves avrfj, v dv cxpi Kal els Beov rjfxlv yiypairrai' el he /xt}, KeKvXiGrai 6 ttlOos iv Kpai/eioj.
^

d<f>vKTov

Solanus

d<f)evKTov

MSS.

72

HOW TO WRITE

HISTORY

beautiful work of all, that a beacon-light might shine from it for sailors far over the sea and that they might not be driven on to Paraetonia, said to be a verydifficult coast with no escape if you hit the reefs. After he had built the work he wrote his name on the masonry inside, covered it with gypsum, and having hidden it inscribed the name of the reigning king. He knew, as actually happened, that in a very short time the letters would fall away with the plaster and there " would be revealed Sostratus of Cnidos, the son of Dexiphanes, to the Divine Saviours, for the sake of them that sail at sea." Thus, not even he had regard for the immediate moment or his own brief life-time he looked to our day and eternity, as long as the tower shall stand and his skill abide. History then should be written in that spirit, with truthfulness and an eye to future expectations rather than with adulation and a view to the pleasure of present praise. There is your rule and standard for If there will be some to use this impartial history. standard it will be well and I have written to some purpose. If not, well I have rolled my crock on Cornel
: :

HiUIi
^

See pages 4-5.

73

THE DIPSADS
A description of some curious fauna of the leads to flattery. The piece is introductory.
Libyan desert

nEPI
1
TtJs"

TQN AIYAAQN
vona
i/jdfJijjLOS

At^vrjg

to,

iarlv ^adela Kal

yfj

SiaKCKavfievT],
TTeSivr)

aKapTTOS,
<f>vr6v

ttoXv, aKpi^ws dnaGa, ov yXorjV ov iroav ov ovx vSwp e-)(ovaa, ^ t ttov apa iv kolXols
p7]iJLOS

inl

avvedTTjKos verov oXiyov XeliJjavoVy Trap^i) /cat rovro /cat hvacjhes, ovhk ttolvu Snpa>vrL avOpwiTcp TTorLjiov. doiKTjrog yovv ian 8ta ravra' t] ttcos yd.p dv OLKOLTO dvripiepos ovrco /cat ir)pd /cat d<f>opos ovaa /cat TToXXw TO) avxfjLcp TTLC^oiJLevrj ; /cat to OoXttos 8e avTO /cat o dr^p KOfjLLhfj Trvpajhr^s /cat <f)Xoyp69
(jjv

/cat

7]

ipdfjLfjLos

VTTCpC^ovGa rravreXcbs d^aTOv

rrjv

x<^p^^

tl6t]gl.

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apeadelr)

/cat

r) 7)

ipdixfiog

voTtadeLrj

/cat

djX7]y7rrj

pard

re rcov arpovdcov rwv p,eydXajv ;(a/Ltat rourcov /cat TTiBriKcov fidXiara Kal iX()>dvTa}v ivlore' ravra ydp fjiova 8ta/)/cet Trpog ro Sli/jos Kal dve-)(rai inl TToXv raXaLTTCopovjJLeva vird ttoXXco Kal ofct to) Kal o/xa? ol Tapdfjiavreg 7rt8av to, crtrta rjXLCi).
yivoLTO.
/cat

dijpa

he

iariv

ovcov

dyplojv

KaravaXcocrajGLV drrep eyovres d(f)LKovro, dTreXavVOVGLV OTTtCrCO v6v SeStOTCS" fir] a(f)LGLV Tj ijjdlXfJLO?

76

THE DIPSADS
The south
all flat

of Libya

is

deep sand and parched

earth, desert for the

part, completely infertile, land, devoid of green shoots and grass and

most

growing things and water, except perhaps for a standing pool left by the rain and this is turbid and stinking, unfit even for a very thirsty man to drink. For this reason the country is uninhabited for who could live in a land so wild, arid, and barren, oppressed by continual drought ? The very heat of the sun, the downright fiery hotness of the air, and the temperature of the seething sand make the country

near by a slim, agile the most part by race, tent-dwellers, living sometimes cross into the country on hunting. They hunting forays, generally about the time of the winter solstice, after waiting for rain, when most of the heat has abated and the sand, now damp, can be trodden after a fashion. They hunt for wild asses and the ostrich, monkeys a great deal, and an occasional elephant. Only these animals can stand the thirst and endure for long periods the pressure of the ffreat fierceness of the sun. Nevertheless, as soon as the Garamantes exhaust the food they have brought >vith them they drive for home, for fear that the sand
live

completely inaccessible. Only the Garamantes

for

77

THE WORKS OF LUCIAN


ava^Aeyetaa Sva^aros Kal aTTopos yevrjraL, etrU
aiairep ivros dpKvojv Xr](f)devTs Kal avrol olttoXcovecrrtv r^v 6 Kal rrjv LKfidSa rd^^Lara ^rjpdvag riXios dKp,aioTepav t7)v dKTLva TTjv )((x>pav VTTep^car), TTpocrpaXwv are irpos rrjv vorlba TraparedrjyfjLdvrjv Tpo^-q yap avn] rep TTvpt. Katrot ravra Trdvra oiToaa elTTOV ro OdXiros, 3 TO hiijjoSi y] eprjjXLa, to purjBev ^x^iv K ttjs yfjs

rat

fxera

rijg

aypas.

a^VKra yap

dvaGTTaaag

Xapelv

Vjjuv Svax^prj elvai Sofet tov Xex^f]aofxevoVy Kal St* o (f)VKTa TrdvTOJS rj X^P^ iKelvrj. epTrera yap TTOiKiXa /xeye^et t /Lteytara /cat

rJTTOv

TrX'qOeL TrdpiTToXXa Kal ras" piop(f)ds dXXoKOTa Kal TOV lov dixaxoL eTrtve/xerat ttjv yrjv, ra jxev VTTO^pvev ixvx^ t"^? i/jdjipLOV, ra 8e dvoj Xt'CL, <j)CoXVOVTa eTTLTToXdCovTa <f)vaaXoL Kal dcrTrtSes" Kal ep^tSi'at Kal Kpd(TTaL Kal povTTp-qGTeis Kal dKovTLai Kal dp,(j)ioPaivai Kal SpdKOVTeg Kal CTKopTTLcuv yevog SiTTOVf TO fjiev eTcpov CTTLyeLou TL Kal Trel^oVy VTTepjxeya Kal voXvGcfyovSvXov , OaTcpov Se Ivaipiov Kal TTTqvov, vfievoTTTepov 8e ota rat? dKpiai ^ Kal rerrtft Kal vvKTepicri ra Trrcpd. rotaura opvea

rroXXd
TTjV
4:

eTTLTreTOfxeva

ovk evTrpoGLTOv direpydi^eTai


ipTreTwv

SeivoTaTOU cop tj ov Trdvv [xeyas, tov lov Trax^S, TO Srjyp,a ^iaios, ;\;tSi7^ opLOLOs, oSwa? /xer dXrjKTOVs indycDV evOvs' KKaLL re yap Kal crq7TL Kal n Lfiirpacrd at iroiel, Kal ^oajaiv wGTTep v TTvpa KeLfievot.. TO Be fidXioTa fcarailjdfjLfjLOs

ALpV7]V KLVr]V. To 8e St) ndi'Tcov


Tpe<f)L
rj

Sn/jdg icTLv,

6(f>Ls

oLKpiai

Boohart

iKTiai

MSS.

78

THE DIPSADS
may heat up again and become difficult and impassable
and they and their spoil perish together as though caught in a trap. There is certainly no escape if the sun draws off the moisture and becomes excessively
hot it soon parches the land. Its rays are made keener by the wet and are all the more intense, wetness being fuel to the fire. Yet all the points I have mentioned the heat, the lack of water, the desert, the infertility will seem to you less unbearable than what I am going to

describe, something that

makes that country

to

be

completely avoided.

enormous size and shape and deadly poisonous,

kinds, of in vast numbers, monstrous in

Crawlers of
live

many

in the

country.

underground hiding in holes in the sand; others crawl on the surface puflP-adders, asps, vipers, horned snakes, ox-beetles, darters, double-ended snakes, pythons, and two kinds of a big multi-jointed one that crawls on the scorpions a winged one that flies, though its wings and ground,
live

Some

of

them

are of
bats.

membrane like those of locusts, cicadas, and The number of these flying, winged creatures

make

But the most


breeds
is

that part of Libya difficult of access. terrible reptile of all that the sand

the dipsad, a snake not particularly big, Its bite is strong and its resembling a viper. poison is thick, causing immediate and lasting pain. It bums and corrodes and sets on fire and its
victims scream as
if

lying on a pyre.

But what

is

79

THE WORKS OF LUCIAN


TTOvovv

Kal

KaraTpv^ov
ra>

avrovs

Klv6

ccrrtv,

o^wvufiov
vnepPoXijw,

TTO-dog

epTrcrio.

Supcjai

yap

els

Kal to Trapaho^orarov ^ oacpvep dv TTLVwGif roaovTO) fidXXov opiyovrai rov ttotov' Kal
7]

7ndvjxia ttoXv ttX^ov CTTtTCtVcrat avrols.

oi58'

dv o^eaeids ttotc to Bli/jos, ou8* iqv tov NetAov avTov Tf TOV "laTpov oXov K7nLv Trapdaxyjs, dXXd ^ 7TpooKKavaLa9 irrdpSajv ttjv vooov, wairep dv ct 5 TLS iXaio) TTvp KaTaa^ewvoi. Xeyovatv laTpwv TTolhes iKLV7jv TTjv aiTiav etvaL, na^vv tov lov ovra 7TiTa Scvofievov tco ttotco o^vklvtjtov ylyvcaOai, vypOTepov ws to clkos KadiaTdp,vov
6

Kal inl ttXclgtov S lax^ 6fxevov. *Eyco iJLv ovv ovScva tovto TTcnovdoTa ctSov, pLTjSe, CO deol, thoLfJLL ovTO) KoXa^ofievov dvdpcoTrov, oAA' ovSe 7TPr)v T^s" AtjSurys" to Trapdnav V TTOUov, 7TLypap,p,a hi rt rJKOvaa, o /xot tiov

Talpwv T(,9 eXeyev avTos ttI (tti^Xtjs dveyvwKevai, K Kl^v7)s i(f>y) d-TTLlOV dvhpos ovTOJS diTodavovTOS
.

is AlyVTTTOV TTapd ttjv pieydXrjv ILvpTiv noLeludaL evda Srj ra^oj TTjv TTopelav ov yap elvai dXXojs.

ivTVxelv TTapd tt7V


/cat

7)'i6va

in* avTtp tu) AcAua/xart,

onjXrjv itfyeaTavai SrjXovaav tov oXidpov tov TpOTTOV KKoXd<f)dat, ydp iiT* avTjj dvOpojirov p,iv TLva olov TOV Tai^aAoi' ypd<f)OVGiv iv Xifivrj iorrajTa Kal dpvofxevov TOV vSaTos, cos ttlol bijdev, to
Tr]V SupdSa ifi7T(f>VK6s avTco TTcpLCGTTeipdadat, tco irohi, Kal Tivas yvvoLKas vSpocfyopovoas dfjLa TroAAas" KaTa)(Xv to vhcop avTOV' rrXiqaiov

Br^piov he

he cod KeloOai ola tcov OTpovOcJjv iKelvcjjv ovs


*

<f)7)v

irpoacKKavofias L. A. Post

-npoatKKavatLs

MSS.

8o

THE DIPSADS
particularly wearing

and exhausting is indicated by the reptile's name.^ Its victims suffer agonies of thirst, and, strangest of all, the more they drink the
greater
is

their craving for water

their

longing

increases enormously. It is impossible ever to quench Even if you gave them the Nile itself or their thirst. the whole Ister to drink, you would only add to the

burning by watering the disease like trying to quench a fire with oil. The doctors say that this is because the thick poison flows more easily when wetted by drinking and becomes more liquid, naturally enough, and so spreads over a greater area.

myself never saw anyone so affected and I pray never see a human being tormented in this way but then I have never set foot in Libya, I am glad to say. I have heard of an inscription which one of my friends said he himself had read on the
I
I

may
;

tombstone of a man who had died in this way. He said that on a journey from Libya to Egypt his route passed the great Syrtis gulf, the only way he could There on the shore right by the water's edge he go. found a grave with a stone on it revealing the manner of death. There was a man carved on it looking like Tantalus in the paintings, standing in a lake and
scooping up water, obviously to drink it, with the animal, a dipsad, wound round his foot clinging tight a number of women were fetching water and pouring it
;

over him together.


*

Nearby lay eggs of the ostriches


"
the thirst-causing one."

Dipsad means

8i

THE WORKS OF LUCIAN


Tapafiavras' ov hk
')(ipov
otfjuat

Orjpdv

rovs

yyp(i<f>dai
/cat

8c

rrpos

TOVTriypafifxa

avro

elirelv,

Tota TTadovT

Kal TdvraXov aWorros lov

fjLTjSapLa KOifjLTJcraL Sn/taXdr^v oSvvrjv,

Kai AavaoLO Kopas roZov ^ ttlOov ovk dvaTrXTJaaL alkv irravrXovaas v8po(f)6pcp Kajxaro).
Ti Kal
(Ls

oAAa

errq

dvaLpovfJLevos pLvrjfxat iKeivojv.

rerrapd cgtl rrcpl rojv wcjv, kol avrd iS'^)(dr}, dXX* ovKeri jxe/cat

XuAAcyouCTt he dpa rd (hd

iaTTOvSaKauL

irepl
/cat

avrd
rat

OL Trc/otot/cot, ov)( cos <j)ayelv fxovov,


ax)T(x)v

dXXd

aKV(TL ^^pa/vrat Keva>oavrs /cat e/CTrcujLtara ttolovv-

ov ydp exovau Kepafxevetv 8ta ro el 8e /cat fieydXa evpedeirj, /cat TTtAot ylyvovTai 8vo k rod cpov iKdorov to ydp 7)iJLLTO[jLOv iKarepov dTTOXpojv rfj K(f)aXfj ttlXos 8 iariv. cKel tolvuv Xox^jctlv at Sn/jdSes rrapd ra (hd, /cat TTihdv TTpoaeXdrj 6 dvdpcxjTTOS, k ttjs i^epTTVGaaat SdKvovoL rov /ca/coSat/xora* ifjdjjLfjLOV o 8e TrdG^eL KLva rd fxcKpov efXTTpoodev elpiqfiiva
0.77'
ijjdfJLfJLOV

etvai 7r]v yrjv.

TTivwv

act

/cat

fidXXov

Sufiojv

/cat

TninrXdpievos

ovhiiTore.

Ata TTpog Nt/cav8pov rov TTOLrjrrjv Ste^rjXdov, ovS^ ottcos Vfiels pidBoire <1)S OVK dfieXes yeyevqrai fxoL (f>vaL rcov AipVKcov larpcov ydp dv fidXXov 6 eiraivos epTTerojv etSeVat.
TauTt ov
fxd
(fjLXorLfjLovjJLevos
etrj,

0T9 dvdyKT] elhevai


fjLerd

avrd
Kal

rrjs

ravra wg /cat dpivvaoOai rdx^s xolv. dXXd fiot Bokco


fJLT)

TTpos

(f>iXiov

dr]pi(x>hr]

ovuav

ofiOLOv

SvGXpdv7]r
ri Kal

rrjv

et/cdva

avrog TraOetv irpos

82

THE DIPSADS
which I said the Garamantes hunted. There was also the inscription, which I may as well add
:

Such were the sufferings, methinks, of Tantalus too, Never to still hot venom's racking thirst, Such the jar Danaid maids ne'er filled. Though ever drawing water with unending toil of
carrying.

There are four more lines about the eggs and how he was bitten as he took them, but I can no longer remember them. The neighbouring tribes collect these eggs and prize them, not only for eating. They use the empty shells for utensils and make cups from them (they cannot work in earthenware because the earth is
all sand). Any big egg they come across is made into two caps, either half being big enough to fit a

man's head. It is there then that the dipsads lie in wait hard by the eggs. When someone approaches they creep out of the sand and bite the poor fellow. Then follow the torments I mentioned just now continual drinking, increasing thirst without relief. It is certainly not to rival Nicander the poet ^ that I have given these details, nor to let you see that I have not neglected the natural history of the reptiles of Doctors would win more approbation for Libya. this they have to know these things so that they can use their skill to resist the disease. No, I think I feel towards you in the name of friendship do not resent the comparison from animals as those who are

Nicander's poem, Theriaca, is an account of snakes and other poisonous creatures and gives remedies for their bites.
^

Kal Aavaolo Kopas rolov edd.

ras

"rov

MSS.

83

THE WORKS OF LUCIAN


Vfid^

olov

eKelvoL

TrdaxovGi

Trpos

ro

ttotov

oi

Sr)xOVTS VTTO rrjg Stj/raSos". oaco yap dv iirl TrXdov irapioj is vp,ds, roGovrcp pidXXov opdyofxai,
TTpdyfjiaros, /cat to Sli/jos dcr^erov UTre/c/caterat /cat eot/ca ovhi* ifjLTrXiqaeGOal 7tot rod tolovtov /xot, TTOTOV. fidXa lk6tcds. ttov yap dv ovto) 8ttSet

rod

/cat

t S'q)^dL9 /cat

Kadapo) vSaTL VTVxoLp,i; cSare avyyvcjTe avTos n^v ifw)(r)v r^hioTCp tovto) /cat
tco
Si^y/xart
ep,(f>opovp,ai
t17

vyLeLVOTaTCp
VTTodels

;^av86i^,
fJLOVOV
flTJ

TW

KpOVVCp TTjV

K(f)aX'qV,

CTTtAtTTCtv TO. Trap* vjjicov iiTLppiovTa /xT^Se

-xyd^loav

TTjv

GTTOvSrjv Tjjs aKpodoecos Kex^^voTa tl /cat SnjjcjVTa /caraAtTrety a>S" hli/jovg ye evcKa tovjjlov TTpos VfJLas ovbev dv c/ca>Au Triveiv del' Kara yap

Tov

cro(l)6v

UXdroiva, Kopos ovhels tojv koXcov.

84

THE DIPSADS
bitten by the dipsad feel towards drinking: the oftener I appear before you the more I long to do so ; thirst unquenchable inflames me and I think I shall never be sated with such drink. How could it be otherwise ? Where else could I find water so transparent and pure ? Forgive me then if my soul too

has been bitten with this most sweet and health-giving and I dip my head into the spring and take my fill with open mouth. I only pray that your flowing streams may never fail nor your ready, eager listening ever be spilt me while I am still agape and still athirst.
bite

As

far as

could stop says, there

my thirst goes, my thirst for you, nothing me drinking for ever. As the wise Plato
is

never too

much

of what

is fine.

85

SATURNALIA
A dialogue between Cronus and Lucian in the guise of Priest of Cronus leads to the giving of laws to govern conduct at the Saturnalia, Cronus's own festival. Subsequent correspondence between Cronus and Lucian and Cronus and the Rich clears up some points of a practical nature.

TA nP02 KPONON
lEPETE
1

Kp6v, yap eoiKag oipx^LV to ye vvv elvai Kal Gol redvraL Kal KeKaXXUprjraL Trap* rjfjiwVy tl dv /x-oAtcrra inl rcov Upcov alrijaag Aaj3ot/Ltt 'napa
'^Q.

crv

gov;

KPONOi:
KaXd>9 ex^t, iaK(f)6aL o tl Kal fjLavTLV a/xa ideXeug etvai TOP dpxovTa, ctSeVat tl gol '^Slov alTclv. eyoj 8e ra yc SvvaTa ovk dvavevGcu irpos ttjv ev)(r)v.
fiev
ere

TovTO

avTov

GOL cvKTeov,^ el

pLT)

lEPETE
ipco yap ra KOLvd TavTL Kal XP^^^^ ttoXvv /cat ^ ScGTTOTrjv etvaL Kal dvSpaTroSa noXXd dypdjv KKTrJG9aL Kal G97JTa9 evavdelg Kal /xaAa/cas" Kal dpyvpov Kal eAe^avra Kal ra aAAa oirooa TLjXLa. TOVTOJV OVVy <L dpLGT Kp6v, StSoU p,OL, d)S TL KaL

'AAAa

rrdXaL eGKefjLjJiaL.

Kal

Trpox^Lpa

ttXovtov

avTov diToXavGaL ttjs Grjg dpx^js /xt^Sc dfioLpov etvaL p,6vov avTOV Std TravTog tov ^lov.

KPONOE
2

*Opas;

ov

/car'
ret

ifxe

tovto

7JT7]Gas.

ov

yap

TOLavTa. a)GT firj dxOov, el ijjLov SLavefieLV dAA' atret Trapd tov Aid?, aifTcov, dTVX''^cr^i'0'9
^

VKTov T: fVKTaiov other MSS. dvSpcDv MSS. aypaiv Courier


:

88

A CONVERSATION WITH CRONUS


PRIEST
it is you have offered sacrifices and we have received favourable omens. Now, what precise return for these rites would you give me if I asked ?

Cronus, you seem to be king just now, and

to

whom we

CRONUS
is for you to have decision what to pray for, unless you expect your king to be a diviner as well and know what request would please you. As far as lies within my power I shall not deny your prayer.

In this case the proper procedure

made your own

PRIEST
I shall decision was made a long time ago. ask for the usual, obvious things wealth, a lot of gold, to be lord of an estate, to own many slaves,

My

clothing, bright-coloured and soft, silver, ivory, and everything else that is worth something. Grant me dearest Cronus, so that I too some part of this,

my

may

profit
life

whole

from your reign, and may not spend as the only one who gets no benefit.
CRONUS

my

There!

That request
if

is

beyond me.

It is

not

mine to

distribute things of that sort.

discontented

So don't be you don't get them, but ask Zeus


89

THE WORKS OF LUCIAN


OTTorav els eKelvov
rj

dpx^

TrepiiXOr] ixer

oXiyov.

iyw
7rrd
7TOV

S*

7Tt

fJLev

prjroLS TrapaXajji^dva) rrjv Svvacrreiav. rjpLepcov rj Trdora ^aoiXeLa, koI riv eKirpoyevcofiaiy
S'j^fjLov

deGfxos

tovtcjov

tStajn^s"
1?.

evOvs
aurats"

elpLi

/cat

Tov TToXXov

Tat?

eTTrd (TTTOvSaLOV fiev ovSev ouSc

dyopalov BioiK'qhe koI fxeOveLV

oaoOai
/cat

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crvy/cep^copT^rat,

ttlvLV

nai^eLV /cat Kvpeveiv /cat dp^ovras jSoav Kadiordvai ^ /cat rovs oiKeras evoj^^elv /cat yvfjuvov aSeiv /cat Kporelv VTrorpepLovra, eviore he /cat c?
/cat
7tI Ke<j)aXrjv wOelodai du^oXcp Kexpi-crTO TrpoaojTTOv, ravra e^eZrai /xot TTOielv. rd jxeydXa he cKeXva, tov ttXovtov /cat ro -)(pvaioVf 6 T^evs hiahihojaiv ols dv edeXrj.

vhojp ijjvxpov

fxevov

lEPETE
3 'AAA*
ouS'
eKetvoSy

Kpove,

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pLeydXrj
ttj

ey<h

y*

ovv

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/cat pahlajg alrcjv

6 8* ovk CTratet to Trapairav, (fywvfjy alyiha eTTiaeicov /cat rdv Kepavvov eiravareiv6p.evos hpifiv evopcov eKirX-qTret rovs evoyXovvras. rjv he irore /cat eTTLvevcrrj rivl /cat TrAoucrtov TO dKpiTOv ivTavda, /Cat Tous" dya^ous" TTOLTJ, TToXv eviore /cat avverovs d(f)els 6 he irapiTTOvjjpois re /cat

oAAa

Tr]v

avoT^TOts"
Tj

dvhpdai TTeptx^i rdv ttXovtov, /Ltao-Ttytats" dvhpoyuvois ToZs TrXeioTois avTcov. ttXtjv Ta ye aol hward ideXoj elhevai TtVa TavTa gtlv.

KP0N02
4

Ov
(jjs

fiLKpd oXojs ovhe TravTairaoLV evKaTa^povrfTa Trpos TTjv hvvap.Lv e^erdl^eodai rijs avp.7Tdarjg

dpxrjs

et p^rj

aol ye puKpdv hoKel to vikov Kv^evovTa

90

SATURNALIA
sovereignty comes round to him, as it will I take over the kingship on set terms. My entire reign is for seven days ; the moment this period is over I am a private citizen and, I suppose, one of the common herd. But during the seven days I have agreed to conduct no business whatever, not even in the market. What I may do is drink and be drunk, shout, play games and dice, appoint masters of the revels, feast the servants, sing stark naked, clap

when the

do presently.

and shake, and sometimes even get pushed head-first face smeared with soot. into cold water with Such great gifts as wealth and gold Zeus distributes

my

to

whomsoever he

pleases.

PRIEST

But even Zeus, Cronus, is not ready or openhanded in his gifts. At any rate I've shouted for them till I'm worn out, yet he doesn't listen at all. No, he shakes his aegis and brandishes his thunderbolt with a fierce stare and terrifies those who bother him. If ever he does nod assent to anyone and make him rich, there is a great lack of discrimination about it. He sometimes passes over the good and wise and lavishes riches on wicked and stupid people, most of them criminals and effeminates. But the things you can do these are what I want to know.

CRONUS

They are not entirely of no importance or altogether contemptible when judged in relation to the power of my entire empire unless you think it

Kadiaravai.

Hakn

Kadiardv

Kadiaraadat

FN.
91

THE WORKS OF LUCIAN


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rots'

aAAots"
rrjv

c?

rrjv

fiovdSa

KvXiofjLevov

rod

i^dba virepdvoi det (j>aiv(jBai. TToAAot yovv is Kopov diTO rod tolovtov CTTcatrtaavrOf ols tAcco? /cat <f>op6s 6 kv^os eTTLvevcrcL' ol 8c /X7raAty yvfivol i^emj^avro avvrpi^evros avrols TOV OKd<f>OVS TTCpL OVTOJ fJilKpix} Cp/XttTt TOJ KV^Cp. /cat pLTjv /cat 7TLlv is TO rjBLcrrov /cat wSiKcLrcpov oAAou Sd^at aaat ^ cv to) avp,7TOGicp /cat Sta/covoufjLevojv Tovs [JLV dXXovs is to vScup ip.7rGlv TOVTO yap roimiripLiov ttjs olSc^lov Sta/covta? oe 8c dvaKTjpvxBrjvai, koXXlvlkov /cat rdOXa ^ipadaL TOV dXXdvra opas rjXtKOV to dyadov ; crt /cat ^aotAca p.6vov i<f>^ aTrdvTwv ycviaOai Tip daTpaydXcp

Kv^ov

Gol

KpaTTjoavTa,
pxLTa
/cat

/xt^tc 7rtTa;(^ctr^9 ycAota /cat airro? CTrtTarrcti/ c^ot?, to) /xcy

ws

iiriTdy-

ala)^p6v

Tt TTcpt

auTou dvaporjaaL, Ta>


^

he.

yvfjivov

opx^aaadai

pieXOeZv
ptW T^?

dpdp.vov

ttjv avXrjTpiSa Tpls ttju oiKiav ttc-

77C09 oi);^t /cat ip-rjs; ct 8e

raura
TO

8ciy/LtaTa /xcyaAoSojfjLJjhe

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amaoct, dyvcopiov tov TauTO hiavip^ovra TTOtT^o-ct? dpoii' azVoj' c/xc oXiyoxpoi'Lov T7]v dp)(riv e^ovTa. tovtojv 8* ovv d
ylyvecrdai, ttjv TOLaurr^v jSaotActai^
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tcov TreTTcov, tov apx^i^v, tov

aSctv
ci)?

dappwv atTCt, c/iou Trpo? ovSev SSi,^op,vov ac Tjj alyiSi, /cat


KaT7jpi,6pL'qadp,r)v,

Tcuj'

TO) Kpavva>.

lEPETE
TlTdvOJV dpLGTf TCJV p,eV TOIOVTIDV Ol) Gv hk dXX iKLv6 /xot aTTOKpivaL, o /xoAtora 8co/j,at, inodovv ct8cVat, /cat /xot t]v cittt^s" auTo, iKavrjv
'AAA*,
^

iaai one late

MS.

ifia other

MSS.

92

SATURNALIA
trivial to

win at dice, and when others are rolling At singles always to be turning up sixes yourself. any rate many men have got themselves more than

enough to eat in

this sort of way,

men to whom the die

will give a gracious

and generous nod. Then again, there are those who have swum out to safety without
a stitch of clothing when their ship has foundered die's tiny reef. Again, to drink the most delightful drinks, to be acclaimed a better singer in your cups than the next man, to see the others who serve at table with you thrown into the water as the penalty for their clumsy service while you are proclaimed victor and win the sausage as prize do you

on the

see what a blessing that is ? Again, to become sole king of all with a win at the knuckle-bones, so that you not only escape silly orders but can give them yourself, telling one man to shout out something disgraceful about himself, another to dance naked, pick up the flute-girl, and carry her three times round the house surely this is proof of my generosity ? And if you criticise this kingdom as not real or lasting you will be unreasonable when you know that I myself who dispense these blessings have the sovereignty for only a short time. So do not hesitate to ask for any of these things which I can give you: gaming, lordship of the feast, singing and all that I have enumerated, in the assurance that I shall not in any circumstances frighten you with the aegis and the thunderbolt.

PRIEST

Why,

best of Titans,

But answer

me
*

this

I need nothing like that. have longed to know, and

ifoi dpcLfievov

N;

Trapa/xevov T.

93

THE WORKS OF LUCIAN


Gi
TTjv
dfjiOL^rjv

OLTToSeSajKajs

dvTL TTJs

dvdiaSy

Koi TTpOS TO XoiTTOV d^LTUli GOL

TOL

XP^^'

KPONOL
'Epcora
t6x<*}.
fJLOvov.

dTTOKpLvodfiat

ydp^

riv

ctSo)?

lEPETS

To
d

iiV

TTpcoTOV

KLVO, 1

7Tpl

GOV dKovofiev,

dXrjdrj TauTct eariv (Ls KarriGdies rd yewcofieva

VTTO TTJs 'Peas', iKLin] 8e vcjieXoixivr] rov Ata XiSov V7ToPaXXofJLvr] dvrl rov Pp(f)Ovg e8co/ce gol KaraTTielVy 6 Se els rjXiKtav d<j>iK6iJLevos c^TJAaoe g TTJs dpx^js TToAe/xoj KparriGaSy elra is rov Tdprapov /cat to o-u/x/xap^tcj)pojv cvejSaAe jreSiJGas avrov re Kov diraVf ottogov jxerd gov Traperdrrero
.

KPONOE
Et
ixrj

lopTrjVf

J)

ovTOSi
^

TjyofjLev

i(f)Lro

/cat

XoihopeiGOai

roZs

/cat {xedvetv iir* Seo-Trorat?

i^ovGias,
)LLOt,

yvoJS

TOiavra
/cat

dv ws 6pyi^Gdai yovv e^etrat ipajrijoag, ovk alBeGdels ttoXlov

ovro)

TTpeG^VTrjv deov.

lEPETE
l^pove, ov Trap oAA' 'Ho-toSo? /cat *'0[xr]pos, okvco /cat ot aAAot drravTes dvdpcuTTOL

Kayo) ravra,

co

ifiavrov

(fyrjjJLL,

yap Xiyeiv on a^^eSov ravra

TrCTTLGTCVKaGt TTCpl GOV.

KP0N02
6

Otet
vyids

yap
Tt
^

rov

TTOip.iva

Klvov,

rov

dXa^ova,
Se
ovtcds.

TTcpl

p,ov

ctScVat;

a/coTret

XoiBopetadai

N:

ScopeiaOai T.

94

SATURNALIA
if

you

tell

me
I

it

will

sacrifice

and

release

be an adequate return you from future debts.


CRONUS

for the

Just ask what you want.

shall

answer* if

happen to know.
PRIEST

whether what we often hear about you is true, that you ate up Rhea's children, but she put Zeus out of the way, substituting a stone for you to swallow down instead of the child then, when he grew up, he beat you in war and drove you from the sovereignty he took you to Tartarus, put fetters on you and all the allies who sided with you, and threw
This
first
:

you
If

in.

CRONUS
it

were not

festival-time,

my

man, and

if

you

weren't allowed to get drunk and cheek your masters with impunity, you would have found out that I'm allowed to be angry at any rate asking such questions and showing no respect for a grey-haired

old god like

me

PRIEST

Now don't say this on my own, Cronus. Hesiod and Homer say so; I'm not sure that I should tell you that the rest of mankind too believes pretty much the same about you.
I

CRONUS

imagine that that shepherd, that impostor, has any sound knowledge of me ? Look at it this
95

Do you

THE WORKS OF LUCIAN


CT^' OGTL9 avdpOJTTOS (oV yap deOV p6)) V7T0[XLVLV av Ikcjv avTOS KaTa<l>ayLv ra reKva, el ^ /lit}

Svearr]? wv dcre^el aSeXcfyco TrepiTreacbv 7Jg9l ; el Tovro jJLavelr], ttws dyvoT^aei Xidov dvrl pp(f)ovs eGdicoVy el jxtj dvdXyrjrog eij] rovs ohovras dAA* oijre eVoAe/LtTjcra/xev ovre 6 Zeus' j8ta ttJv dp)(rjv, eKovros he fjLOV vapaSovrog avrcp /cat on fiev yap ovre TreTreSrjfjLaL VTTeKordvTos y dp-)(ei.^ ovre ev rep Taprdpco elfxl, Kal avro? opag olpuai el
Tts"

Kal

,*

jjLT)

rv<l)X6s a)G7Tep "Ojxrjpos el.

lEPETE
7

Tt 7Tadd)v

Sc, CO

Kpove,

d<f)rJKas rrjv dp^-^v

KPONOE
ro p.ev oXov, yepcuv tJStj Kal <f>pdG(x). vtto rov ^povov wv. hio Kal TreTreSrJGdaL TToSaypog eiKaGav. ov yap rjSvvdfJLrjv ScapKelv jie ol TToXXol
*Eyc6 GOL
TTpog ovrco tto^tjv rrjv dSiKLav rcjv vvv, dAA* del dvadelv ehei dvco Kal Kara) rov Kepavvov SLrjpfxevov

rovs 7n6pKov9 ^ lepoGvXovs ri ^laiovs Kara<j)Xeyovra, Kal ro Trpdyfia Trdw epycoSes "^v Kal veavLKov. e^eGnjv ovv ev ttolojv rep Att. Kal
aAAoiS" he KaXctJS e)(eiv ehoKet [xol hiaveifiavra rols

avrov evw^^eiGdai ra ovre rols ev^opievoLS XPVH'^' rl^ovra ovre vtto rcbv rdvavria alrovvrcjv evoxXovfxevov ovre ^povrojvra rq dGrpdirrovra ^ ;^dAa(^av
naiGlv
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n'q Tt?

0.
. .

tJv
.

da^i

B:

ct

tJv daejSei

dBeX<f>cp TTfpLTreawv rjaOie Kal TTepincawv ko-v tovto y'

...

^v

dae^fia

dBX<f>a>

(aSeA^oiv
d>v

tovto y'av dv flrj N.


TrepiTreacov

Q)
:

eia9i Koi TOVTO fiaviCi]

TACl

H.

Jacobitz

Kal

Mras.

96

SATURNALIA
own free will, unless he were some Thyestes fallen foul of an impious brother ? Suppose he were as mad as this then how would he fail to recognise he was eating a stone and not a No, child, unless he had no feeling in his teeth? there was no fighting, nor does Zeus rule his empire by force I handed it to him and abdicated quite That I am neither in chains nor in voluntarily. Tartarus I suppose you see for yourself, unless you are as blind as Homer.
eating his

way

would any

man

(I will

not say god) put up with

own

children of his

PRIEST

Why

ever did you let the sovereignty go, Cronus

CRONUS
it was because I was you. old and gouty owing to my years. That is why people suppose that I had been put into chains. I hadn't the strength to deal with all the injustice of the present generation, but I had to run up and down with my thunderbolt at the ready, setting fire to perjurers, temple-robbers, or men of violence; the whole business was very strenuous and needed a young

I will tell

In brief

So I abdicated, thank goodness, in favour of Zeus. Besides, I thought it a good idea to divide the kingdom between my sons, and for myself to spend most of my time in quiet enjoyment of the good things of life, not engaged with people making vows or annoyed by those who make contradictory requests, neither thundering nor lightening nor
man's energy.
^

Trjv apxrjv

o.px^'-

T:

rrjv dpxfjv a<j)iXeTO

apxciv N.

97
VOL. VI.

THE WORKS OF LUCIAN


ivlore pd)OiLV dvayKa^ofievov dX\d TTpeo^vriKov riva Tovrov rjhiaTov ^iov hidyoj il^oiporepov ttLvwv TO vKTapy Tch 'laTreroi kol rot? aAAots" rot? 6 8e dp-)(i fivpla TjXLKLwraig TrpoopivOoXoyayv' ravrag -qpiipas (/>' dXiyas irX-qv exojv TTpdyfiara. ols L7TOV VTTC^eXeadaL fJLOi cSofe /cat dvaXafx^dvo)
TTjv dpx'ijv, cos V7TopLvriGaLp,i
rjv

rovs dvdpcoTrovs olos 6 7T* ifxov ^los, OTTore dairopa /cat dm^pora Trdvra i(l)Vro avrols, ov ardxv^s, aAA' TOip,os dpros Kal Kpea eor/ceuacr/xeVa, K'at o olvos eppei
TTorapirjhov
/cat

Trqyal
/cat

aya^ot yap
Tj

-^crav

/cat yaAa/cros" fieXiTos aTravres. avrr] fioL ;^/)ucrot

alria rij? oXiyoxpovLov ravrrjs SuvacrTetas", Kal 8ta Tovro diravTaxov Kporos /cat (hhrf /cat TratSta Kal iXevdepoLS. /cat tcroTt/xta Traat /cat hovXois
ovhels yap
iir*

ifiov BovXos

ifv.

lEPETE
8
^ ctV 'Eya> 8e, cL Kpove, Kal rovro eiKaCov to ^ K Kal hovXovs Tou? <j>iXdvdpoiirov rrehorpi^as rod pLvdoV KLVOV 7TOLLV 0 TLfJLCOVra TOVS TOL kol avrov hovXevovra, opiOLa TrdoxovraSf are
. p,p.V7]piVOV TTJg TTeSr)?

KPONOL
Oif Travarj

yap roiavra Xrjpcjv;


lEPETE
/cat

Eu

Aeyets",

iravcrop^ai.

TrXrjv

en

fxoL
rjv

Kal
tols

TOvro diTOKpivai. ro Trerreveiv avvqdes CTTt GOV dvdpdiTTOlS ;


1

TO add Jacobitz.

98

SATURNALIA
having to throw hail occasionally. No, I live this pleasant life of an old man, drinking stiff nectar and chatting with lapetus and my other cronies, and Zeus is king with all the worry. Nevertheless I thought it best to filch these few days on the terms I mentioned, and I take over the sovereignty again to remind mankind what life was like under me, when everything grew for them without sowing and without ploughing not ears of wheat, but loaves readybaked and meats ready-cooked. Wine flowed like a river, and there were springs of honey and milk for everyone was good, pure gold. This is the reason for my short-lived dominion, and why everywhere there is clapping and singing and playing games, and everyone, slave and free man, is held as good as his neighbour. There was no slavery, you see, in my

time.

PRIEST

had assumed from the story that Well, Cronus, this humanity you showed to slaves and those in chains was to do honour to men whose sufferings had been like your own, since you yourself had been a slave and you were remembering your chains.
I

CRONUS

Oh, stop that

silly talk.

PRIEST

You

are

right.

will
it

stop.

another question. Was gamble in your time ?


2

But answer me customary for men to

TTcSoTpijSas

two

late

MSS.

TratSorplj^as

other

MSS.

99

THE WORKS OF LUCIAN


KPONOi:

Kat /xaAa, ov
a)G7Tp Vjxlv,
fiT]

raXdvrojv ye /cat yLvpidhojv KapVOJV rO (JbdyLGTOV, (hs dvidodai riTT7]divTa firjSe SaKpveiv del duirov
jjltjv

Trepl

dXXd

7Tpl

ovra fiovov tcjv dXXcov.

lEPETL
ye eKeZvoi iTOLOvvres. virep rivos yap dv /cat eirerrevov avrol oXoxpvcroi ovres ; (hs eycoye et /cat jjLera^v Xeyovros gov roiovSe ri evevorjaa' Tts" va rcov dvSpiov eKeivcjv ra)V p^pucrr^Aarajv es Tov Tjiierepov rovrov fiiov dyaycjv ehei^e rols ^ ddXios vtt* avrcov ; TToXXoZs, Ota eiradev dv 6 hieaTrdaavTO yap dv avrov ev ofS' otl einhpapiovTes woTTep TOV Ilev^ea at MauvdSes ^ at Oparrat tov 'Op^ca ^ TOV A/cratcova at Kvves, Trepl tov to puepos vpog diXXijXovg l^ieiCov drreveyKaadaL eKaoTOS dpiiXX(jjp,evoi, ot ye ouSe eopTd^ovTeg efco TOV <f)LXoKepSovs eloLV, dXXd irpoaohov ol ttoXXoI
Ei5
7re7T0Lr)VTaL

TTfV

eopTi^v.

cfra ot puev dnep^ovTai

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dTepireGTaTOV , oiroTe tj )(^Ld)V 7re;^t ra ndvTa Kal 6 poppas TToXvs Kal ovbev o tl ov iTemriyev vtto tov Kpvovs Kal ra hevhpa irjpd Kal yvfxvd Kal dcfivXXa Kal OL XeLjJLCoves dp.op<j)OL Kal dinqvOr^KOTes Kal ol
TS,
ICX>

dvOpcoTTOL e7TLKeKV(f)6TS woTTep OL Trdvv Kdp,LVOV ol TToXXoLf TTjV dyi<j)l

yeyqpaKoT7]VLKaVTa

SATURNALIA
CRONUS
Certainly. But not for talents and thousands of drachmas as you do. No, nuts were the highest stake. Then there was no heart-break if a man was beaten, or floods of tears because he alone had lost the price of a meal.

PRIEST

What could their stakes be they were when they were pure gold themselves? But while you were talking I thought of something suppose one of your men of beaten gold had been brought into our world for everyone to see, what a bad time the poor wretch would have had at people's hands They would have certainly rushed at him and torn him limb from limb, as the Maenads tore Pentheus, the Thracians Orpheus, and the dogs Actaeon, vying
!

How wise

with each other to carry

off

the biggest piece.

Not

even at festival-time are they free from greed for Indeed most of them have made your festival gain. a source of revenue. Some of them go off and rob

banquet others revile you when they ought not and smash the dice, which are certainly not responsible for what they do of their own
their friends at the
;

free will.

But tell me this as well why, when you are such a soft-living god and old at that, have you chosen the most unpleasant time of the year, when the snow covers everything, the North wind is strong, everything is frozen, trees are withered and bare and leafless, fields are ugly and without bloom, and men are bent like old, old men, most of them hard by the
:

o add. Jacobitz.

icujSepvouy

F.

Id

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ov yap Trpea^vrLKos ye o Katpos ovhe

KPONOi:
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dv rrjv Trapoip^iav cVaAr^^eucjat/Ltt, -q rovs yepovras yiyveoOai.


lEPETi:

<f>7]aL

TroAt/XTratSaj

'AAAa /X17 Suyatro ravra d Xeycis /X7y

Scipatv

Tneiv,

cS

rjSda.

wore

Trivwyiev.

Kpdve, otoj LKavd

yap dnoKeKpLGaL Kal rd Trpojra. /cat jLtot 80/ca) ypaipdpLevos els ^l^Xlov ravnjv rjpLwv rrjv gvvovalav a re avros rjpcvrrjaa /cat <tu npos ravra
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KPONOSOAaN
10

TaSc XeyeL KpovoaoXojv lepevs Kal 7rpo<f)'qr7]s rov Kpovov /cat vojjLoderrjs rdv d[L^\ rrjv eopr-qv. *^A fJLev rovs Trevrjras XPV '^oielv, avrols eKeivoLs eirepL^a dXXo Pl^XCov, eyypdi/jas, Kal ev otS* ort
/cd/cetvot rols vofjLOLS, t] aurt/ca evo^oi eaovrai rols inLripLLOis, a Kara rd)v direidovvTuyv p,eydXa cjptcrrat..

ciMfievovat.

102

SATURNALIA
stove?

The season

is

not good for the old or for

lovers of easy living.

CRONUS
are asking me a lot of questions, my man, when I ought to be already drinking. In fact you've robbed me of quite a bit of my festival with all these

You

completely unnecessary speculations. So let them be for now and let us enjoy ourselves, clap hands, and live on freedom's terms at this festival-time.

Then

let's dice in the old way for nuts, vote for our kings and obey them. So I will prove the truth of the proverb which says that for old men there comes a second childhood.

PRIEST

Well, Cronus, never may anyone who doesn't approve of what you say be able to get a drink when he is thirsty Then let us drink Your first answer was quite enough. I think I shall write down this conversation of ours in a book, both what I asked and what you so kindly answered, and I'll give it to my friends to read, at any rate those who deserve to hear what you have said.
!

CRONOSOLON
Thus says Cronosolon,^ priest and prophet of Cronus, and giver of laws for his festival. What the poor must do I have written in another book and sent to them, and I am well assured thai they will abide by the laws, or else they will at once be liable to the severe penalties appointed for disobedience.
1

Named

after Solon, lawgiver of Athens.

103

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Se,

CO

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adai
11

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X04

SATURNALIA
But you who are rich, see that you do not transgress the law or hear these commands amiss. Who-' ever acts otherwise, let him know that it is not I, the lawgiver, whom he slights, but he does injury to
his festival,

Cronus himself, who has appointed me lawgiver of appearing before me in no dream, but conversing with me in bodily shape the other day when I was fully awake. He was not in fetters, nor was he shabby, as the painters show him, following the ravings of the poets. No, he had his sickle full-whetted he was all radiance and strength, and his garb was that of a king. Such was his appearance when he was seen by me. What he said equally showed his divinity and may be told you by
;

me morose and walking deep in thought, he knew at once, as became a god, the reason for my grief, namely that I was cross because of my poverty, having but a single cloak, not enough for the season for it was cold with a strong north-wind, ice and snow, and I had little defence against these things and then since the festival was almost at hand, I saw other people getting ready their sacrifices and feasts, and I had little that makes for festival-time. Well, he came up from behind, took me by the ear, and shook me (his usual way of accosting me), and said ** Why " are you looking so dovmhearted, Cronosolon? " Haven't I every reason, master, when I see disgusting and filthy rogues unbelievably rich and alone leading a comfortable life, while I and many another educated man know poverty and despair as companions? But even you, master, won't put a stop to these things and make a more equitable
Seeing
;
; :

way

of preface.

TrpooTreAo^eiv

Guyet

npoaciKd^etv

MSS.
105

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jjLeraKOGfjLrJGaL rrpog

6^17,

to iGoyLoipov. Ta jxev aAAa, ov pdSiov dXXdrreLv onoaa K KXcodovs /cat

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12
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1.

NOMOI npnTOi
dyopalov pnqTe Ihiov TTpdT7]

13

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Tt.v

piTjSev /xi^re

ivTOS TTJs eopTTJs


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/cat

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1
fi-fj

add. Solanus.

106

SATURNALIA
arrangement." Generally speaking," he said, " it's not easy to change the lot that Clotho and the other Fates assign you, but as far as the needs of the
"

go I shall set your poverty right. This is how do it go, Cronosolon, and write me laws on conduct during the festival, so that the rich may not festival but share their good things with keep private " " I do not know the laws," I said. I will you." instruct you," said he, and he set to. Then, when " I had learnt them all, he said, And tell them that if
festival
I

shall

they are disobedient it's not for nothing that I carry I should be a fool to have this sharp sickle here castrated my own father, Uranus, and yet not make eunuchs of the rich who break my laws, making themi servants of the Great Mother ^ and collectors for her, complete with flutes and cymbals." That was his threat. So you had better not transgress his or-

dinances.
1.

FIRST LAWS

to do any business, public or private, during the festival, except what pertains to sport, luxurious living and entertainment: cooks and
is

No one

confectioners alone shall work.

Let every man be treated equal, slave and freeman, poor and rich. No one may be ill-tempered or cross or threaten
anybody. No one
Cronus.

may

audit accounts during the festival of


Cybele.

107

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jjLT^he

rov dpyvpov tj rrjv iodrjra cfera^eraj avaypa^lro) iv rfj ioprfj fjurjSe yvfivaCeadcu K.povLOLS pLTjhe Xoyovs ddKelv -^ eTnheiKvvGdai,
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.

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koL

TTaihidv pi(j)aivovTes

2.

NOMOI AEYTEPOI

14:

Yipo TToXKov rrjg eoprrjs ol ttXovoiol ypa(f)6vro)V rwv ^i\ix)v rovvofia, jiev- is TTivoLKiov Ikolotov
ixovrojv Se /cat dpyvpLov eroipLOV ogov tcov /car* TOS TTpooiovTCOV TO Sc/caTOV /Cat iadrjra rrjs ovGrjg
TTjV

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T^

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.

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15
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p.kv

Se

TO aurot

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^tAots".
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ot Be dTroKoyii^ovTes
ot,

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.

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tojv

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TrpeajSurat

TL

TO

108

SATURNALIA
during the
list his silver or clothing nor take part in athletics, nor practise public-speaking, nor deliver lectures, except wits and jolly fellows purveying jokes and entertainment.

No one may

inspect or

festival,

2.

SECOND LAWS

Long

before the festival the rich shall >vrite on a

name of each of their friends, and shall hold in readiness the cash value of a tenth of their
tablet the

yearly income, any surplus clothing they possess, furniture too crude for them, and a good proportion of their silver. They shall keep this ready at hand.
fice shall

the day before the festival a purificatory sacribe carried round, and they shall purge their houses of meanness, avarice, greed, and all such vices
that dwell with most of them.

On

they have purified the house, they shall Zeus the Giver of Wealth, Hermes the Bestower, and Apollo of the Great Gifts. Then in the late afternoon, that list of friends shall be read to them. They shall divide the gifts according to each man's worth, and before sunset send them
sacrifice to

When

to their friends.

The bearers

shall not

exceed three

or four, the most trustworthy of their servants, well advanced in years. The nature and quantity of

what

is

sent shall be written on a

slip,

that neither

party may suspect the bearers. Each servant shall drink one cup and then run off and make no more

demands.

To men

of letters double quantities shall

109

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SeujLtcvotS"

SiTrXdaLa

irdvra

rrefjiTreadoj'
rots'

d^iov yap

hiixoipiras elvai.
CO?

rd Se inl

hcjpoLs Xeyojxeva

/xcrptcarara
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fidXiorra

Sdomai.

16

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ol 8e

dTTeiXfi evoxos a>v, Kdv Trepupr} doa expTJv. aAAot ot jiev Gre(f)dvovSf ol 8e Xi^avojrov
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dpyvpov t) xP'^^^^ Trapd rd p,ev 7Tep,(j)dev eoroj

no

SATURNALIA
be sent; they deserve a double share. The messages with the gifts shall be as modest and brief as No one shall send an odious message with possible.
them, or cry up what is sent. Rich man shall not send to rich
festival

man

or at Cronus 's

entertain anyone of equal standing. He shall keep nothing of what is already prepared for sending, nor change his mind about a gift.

Anyone who the year before missed his share through absence shall be given it now as an extra
gift.

The

rich shall

pay debts

for their

impecunious

friends (including their rent if they owe this too and cannot pay). In general they shall make it their

business

to

know

long beforehand what

is

their

greatest need.

Those who receive shall not complain, but think A jar of wine, a gift, whatever it is, generous. hare, or a plump bird shall not be reckoned a gift for Cronus's festival, nor shall Cronian gifts be laughed at. In return the poor scholar shall send the rich man any pleasant, convivial, old book he may have, or a work of his own, the best he can. The rich man shall receive this gift with a glad countenance and then read it at once. If he rejects it or throws it away, he shall know that he is liable to what the sickle threatens, even if what he sends is adequate. The other poor recipients shall send garlands of flowers
the
or grains of frankincense. If a poor man sends clothing or silver or gold beyond his means to a rich man, his gift shall be de-

III

THE WORKS OF LUCIAN


Kal KaraiTpaBev ifjLpaXXeoOoj elg rov OrjGavpov rov K/dovou, o 8e Treirqg is ttjv vcrrepaiav 7rX7]'yag irapa rod ttXovulov Xajju^auerco rep vdpdrjKi els ras p^ei/oa? ovk iXdrrovs hiaKOGLCOV /cat irevr-qSrjfioGLOv

Kovra,
3.

NOMOI STMEOTIKOI

17

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pLTjhi

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18

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p^ijre 6px'ri(Jr7]v p,7]r


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KudapLG-

Kar Schaefer

koL

V: om. N.

112

SATURNALIA
clared public property and sold, the money going into the treasury of Cronus and the poor man on the next day shall receive from the rich man strokes on his hands with a cane to the number of not less than
;

two hundred and

fifty.

3.

LAWS FOR BANQUETS


be when the shadow of before the bath there

for bathing shall the sundial is six feet long; shall

The time

be nuts and gaming. shall take the couch where he happens to be. Rank, family, or wealth shall have little influence on privilege. All shall drink the same wine, and neither stomach trouble nor headache shall give the rich man an excuse for being the only one to drink the better

Each man

have their meat on equal terms. The waiters shall not show favour to anyone, but shall neither be too slow nor be dismissed until the guests choose what they are to take home. Neither are large portions to be placed before one and tiny ones before another, nor a ham for one and a pig's jaw for another all must be treated equally. The man who pours the wine shall keep a sharp eye on each guest from a vantage-point ; he shall pay less attention to his master, and his ears shall be sharper than usual. The cups shall be of all kinds. It shall be permissible to pass a loving-cup, if desired. Everyone shall drink to everyone else, if desired, when the rich man has set the example. No one shall be made to drink if he cannot. It shall not be permissible for anyone who wishes it

quality. All shall

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rrjv avToifs

ayeiv apri fiavOdvovra

i^ioroj,

jjv

ns

cctto) S/cctj/x/x.aros' fJidrpov

to oXvttov

cttI rrdaiv.

lierTevercDGav 7tI Kapvojv. rjv rig in apyvpLco TTerrevar}, aairos c? 'rqv varepalav Graj. Kat jLtcvercu /cat aTrtrco eKaaros, oirorav povX-qraL. 'Ettciv he roifs OLKeras 6 ttXovglos vajxfj> ^^^i" KovovvTCJV Kal ol (jyiXoL crifv avrw.

Tov9

vofjLovs

Tovrovs

eKaarov tojv ttXovglcov


.

iyypdiljavTa is x^^^W ^'^Xrjv ;^etv iv ixeaairdra) Set 8c elhivai on Kal dvayivojaKiroj TTJs avXrjs, ear* av avrrj r) gttJXt] p^ivri^ ovre Xifios ovre
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IMTj

ovr

L9 TTjV OLKLaV

yivoiTO

ovre dXXo ;^aAe7roi' ovhev 8e 7TOT OTTCp aVTOiS rqv Kadatpcdfj, aTTorpOTraiov ola TreiGOvrai.
TTvpKaXd
.

EniSTOAAI KPONIKAI
1.

Ern KPONai xaipein


jjuev tJStj

19

*Eyypa^tv

gol koL TTporcpov


TVeviaS

St^AcSi/

iv

oh

pLOVOS dpiOLpos elvaL ttJj ioprrjs, 7]v iTnjyyeXKa?, crt Kal rovTO TTpoodels piep,vrjp,ai ydp aXoyatrarov elvai
ctrjV

Kol d)9 VTTO

KLvbvveVOLfJLl

rovs

vnepTrXovTCiv Kal Tpv(f>dv ov piV TjpLCov KOivcovovvrag ojv ^xovgl rots TrevcGripoLg, rovs 8e Kal ravra Kpovlcuv iveGTwrcov. XipLcp hia(j>9ipeGdaL , CTTCt 8e pLOl Tore OuScV dvT7TGTLXag, rjy7)GdpLrjv 8etv avdis dvaixvrJGal g tcov avrcov. ixPV^ 7^9 G, CO dpLGTC KpOVCy TO dvLGOV TOVTO d^^XoVja KOL

rd dyadd
^

is ro

piCGOv aTraot
<(aAA')>

Karadivra irrcLra
fMavdavovra.

L. A. Post proposes

dpn

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SATURNALIA
to

introduce into the banquet a dancer or lyreall

player who is still learning. Jesting shall be limited in


inoffensive.

cases to

what

is

All gambling shall be for nuts.


for

money he

shall

If anyone gambles go without food for the next

day.
shall stay and go as he likes. a rich man gives a banquet to his servants, his friends shall aid him in waiting on them. Every rich man shall inscribe these laws on a slab of bronze and keep it in the centre of his hall, and read them. And it must be realised that as long as this slab shall last neither famine nor plague nor fire nor any other harm shall come to their house.

When

Each guest

May

it

never be taken down


is

For
!

if it is,

Heaven

avert what

in store for

them

CORRESPONDENCE WITH CRONUS


1.

MYSELF TO CRONUS GREETINGS!

wrote to you earlier telling you what my position was and how my poverty made it likely that I alone should have no share in the festival which you proI

claimed, adding this, I remember, that it was most unreasonable for some of us to have too much wealth and live in luxury and not share what they have with those who are poorer than they while others are dying of hunger, and that too when the festival of Cronus is Since you sent no reply then, I have thought near. it necessary to remind you of it again. You ought, my dear Cronus, to have abolished this inequality, made the good things accessible to everyone, and

"5

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KafjLiqXos, d)9
T)

cog 8e

vvv

exojJLev, ixvpfjuiq^

7)

7Tapoi[jLLa

(l)'qGL.

fjidXXov 8e

rpayiKov

V7TOKpLTr]v

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e-)(ajv,

opas

on

avayKaZov avrw

dpn

pikv infjr]Xcp,

dpTL he raTTeivw yeveadat, KaO^ oirorepov dv rroha


TTpopaivr). roaovrov Kav rep pico rjp,cov to Kal OL fxev VTTohrjadpLevoL epL^drag ty]S

dvLGov
tvx'tjS

evrpaycohovoiv r]pu,Vy ol ttoXXol 8e Kal xP'p.ai ^ahi^opiev hwdp^evoi dv, ev ladi, TTe^fj avTOJV VTTOKpiveodai /cat hia^aiveiv , el pLT} x^Zpov res Kal r)p,ds eveoKevaoe TTapairXr^oiojs eKeivois. KatVot aKovu) rcov iroi-qrcjv Xeyovroiv co? to 20 TToXaiov ov Toiavra tjv toZs dvOpwirot? rd TTpay/xara GOV en piOvapxovvTOS y oAA' rj p.ev yfj doiropos Kal dvripoTOS e(j>vev avroZs rd dyaOd, SeZTTVOv eroip^ov eKaaro) eg Kopov, Trora/xot 8e ol fxev olvov, ol Se ydXa, elal he ot Kal fieXi eppeov. to 8e ixeyLOTOVy avTOVs eKeivovs <j)aol tovs dvOpwirovs XpvGOVs elvai, ireviav he pirjhe to Trapdirav avToZs TrX-qoLa^eLV. rjp^eZs 8e avTol p,ev ovhe fioXv^Sos dv elKOTCJS SoKolrjiJLev, dAA* et tl Kal tovtov aTLpLOTepov, 7) Tpo(f)rj 8e pLerd ttovcov toZs TrAetcrrots", TTevca 8e Kal diropia Kal dpLrj^avLa Kal to ot/xo6 /cat TO TTodev dv pLOi yevoLTO Kal w ttjs tvx^S TroAAa TOiavTa TTapd yovv rjpZv toZs Trevrjai. Kal TjTTOv dvy ev lgOl, rjVLCjpeda dv en avToZs,
Xoprjyovarjs
'T)

el

pLT) TOVS irXovoiovs ecopcopiev TOoavTTj evhaipiovia avvovTaSy ol togovtov puev xP^^^^y togovtov he dpyvpov eyKXeiGdp,evoL, eGdrjrag he ocra? exovTes, dvhpaTToha he Kal C^vyrj Kal GWoiKiag Kal dypovs, 116

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then bid the festival begin. As we now are it is a " case of ant or camel ", as the saying has it.^ Better still, imagine a tragic actor with one foot on something high, like a tragic buskin, and let the other be unshod. Now if anyone were to walk like this you can see he would have to be up in the air at one moment and down again at the next according to whichever foot he is putting forward. Inequality in human life is the same some put on the buskins which our producer Luck supplies and strut the human stage, but the rank and file of us go unshod on the earth below, though we could play a part and stride the boards no worse than they, you may be sure, if anyone had decked us out like them. Indeed I hear the poets saying that things were not like that in old times when you were still lord. No, the earth produced its good things for the folk without sowing and without ploughing, an ample meal ready to each man's hand; the rivers flowed some with wine, some with milk, and others again with honey. And, above all, they say the men themselves were gold and poverty was nowhere near. As for us, we could not even be thought of as lead, but something meaner, if such there be and for most of us food is won with toil; and poverty, "how want, and helplessness, and "alas!", and " and such can I get it ? ", and "oh, what bad luck exclamations are plentiful, at least among us poor. We should be less distressed about it, you may be sure, if we did not see the rich living in such bliss, who, though they have such gold, such silver in their safes, though they have all that clothing and own slaves and carriage-horses and tenements and farms,
: ;
!

i.e.

there are only the very rich or the very poor.

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ravra eAcacrra KCKTqiJievoL ovx oTTOiS fjLerehoGav rjyuv irore avrojv, dAA' ovSe rrpoa^XeiTeiv 21 Tovs TToXXovs a^iovoL. ravra. rjixdg /xoAtcrra diroTra/xTToAAa Se
TTvlyei, o)

Kpove, Kal
i(l>*

d(f)6pr]rov -qyovfjueda

ro TTpdyixa,

rov

aXovpylScov KaraKLfjLvov roaovroLs dyadoZs ivrpv(f)dv ipvyydvovra /cat vrro rcjv avvovrojv v8aLixovLl^6fJLvov del ioprd^ovra, ifxe 8e Kal
iJLV

rovs opLOLovs oveLpOTToXelv y


cos"

et nodev d^oXol reaaapes dprcuv yovv rj d\(f>ir(x)v yevoLvro, KadcvSeiv Kapbapiov r^ Ovfiov 'q ipLTTeTrX-qafJievoL roivvv ravra y co Kpove, KpoiMfxvov 7nrp(x)yovrS r) diXXdrrLv Kal pLeranoLeLV is ro laoSlaLrov, rj ro vararoVy avrovs y Klvovs KcXeveiv rovg ttXovaiovs jMr) fxovovs drroXaveiv rcov dyadcov, dXXd dwo
e-)(OLpLV
.

fieSlpLvcov

roaovrcjv ;(puo-tou p^otVt/ca ye rjpLcov Trdvrwv KaraaKeSdaaL, dno Se IpLariojv oaa kov VTTO cnqrcbv hiaPpiodevra ovk dv avrovs dvidcreie' ravra yovv Trdvrws dTToXXvfxeva Kal vno rod Xpovov SLa(f)dapr)a6fieva rjfjuv Sovuai TrepL^aXeoOai fjLoXXov -^ ev rals Koirais Kal Kiarais evpwrL
7ToXXa> Karaaarrfjvai.

22

Kcu fJLTjv Kal SetTTVi'Cetv eKaarov dpri piev reauapaSt dpri he nevre rcov Treini^rwv 7TapaXap,pdvovraSi /lit) p,evroL is rov vvv rpoirov rcov SeLTTVojVy oAA' is ro Srjp^orLKcorepov , cu? ctt' icrqs /xT;^tv diravTas Kal p,rj rov p^ev ip,<j>opeLo6at, rwv oipcuv Kal rov OLKenqv TrepipLeveiv ear air a, ear* dv
dTrayopevGT]
iadlcov,
icj)*

rjp,ds

Se

iXdovra,

en

rrapaoKeva^opievojv eTTi^dXoLpev rrjv ^eipa, 7rapap,L^ea6aL Sel^avra p,6vov rrjv XoTrdSa iq ocrov iarl rod TrXaKovvros ro Xoittov pLT)he iaKopLLodevros vos hiavep^ovra rco p,ev SeanorT] Il8

d)S

SATURNALIA
each and all in large numbers, not only have never shared them with us, but never deign even to notice ordinary people. This is what sticks in our throats most of all, Cronus, and we think it an intolerable thing for such a man to lie in his purple clothes and gorge himself on all these good things, belching,
receiving his guest's congratulations, and feasting without a break, while I and my sort dream where we can get four obols to be able to sleep after a fill of

bread or barley, with cress or thyme or onion as a So either, Cronus, change the situation and give us instead of our present lot an equal share in
relish.
life, or,

at the very least, bid these rich

men stop

their

solitary enjoyment of the good things and out of all their bushels of gold throw down a measure for us

and out of their clothing give us what would be them even if it were eaten by moths it will be completely destroyed and ruined by time in and tell them to give it us to wear before any case letting it rot in their boxes and chests with mould
all,

no

loss to

everywhere. Tell them, moreover, to invite the poor to dinner, taking in four or five at a time, not as they do nowadays though, but in a more democratic fashion, all having an equal share, not one man stuffing himself with dainties with the servant standing waiting for him to eat himself to exhaustion, then when this servant comes to us he passes on while we are still getting ready to put out our hand, only letting us glimpse the platter or the remnants of the cake. And tell him not to give a whole half of the pig when it's brought in, and

THE WORKS OF LUCIAN


TTaparidevai to rjixLTOfXOV oXov gvv rfj K(f)aXfj, 8e ogtcl rols oAAots" (jyepeiv ey/ce/caAu/x/xeW.
TTpoenreZv he /cat rols ear av errraKLS alrTJarj
rjv

olvoxoois

{Jlt]

irepifjieveLv ,

eKaoros, oAAa aTTa^ KeXevarj, avriKa ey^iaL koI avahovvai


rjixojv

melv

fjLeydXrjv /cuAt/ca ijjLTrXrjGafjLevovs axjirep rip SeaTTorr].

Tov ohov 8e avrov Trdai rols avfXTTorais va rov avTOV etvat ^ ttov yap yeypd<f)da.i rovrov TOV vofxov, TOV fiev dvdoafJLLov piedvGKeoOai^ ifiol Se VTTO TOV yAeu/cous" hiapp-qyvvadaL ttjv yaa/cat /cat

Tepa ;
23
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Kpove, pLOv

ij/xets"

Se Kadehovp^eda evxopbevoL, cTrctSav XovodpiejLtev avrois dvarpeipavra rov dpu(j>op.a /card^at, rov p,dyeipov 8e rov ^wp,6v KVLaojGaL /cat 7riXa96p,vov ro rdpu^os /xev es" rrjv ^ ^ ip^^aXelv (f)aK'fjv rrjv Kvva Se TrapeidTreaovcrav rov T dXXdvra oXov /cara<^ayetv, rrepl rdXXa rwv
voi '^KCDGL, rov TTolSa
oifjOTTOLOJV i)(6vra)v, /cat /cat rov

rov TrXaKovvros ro rjp^Ldv

TOV Se vv

Xa(j>ov /cat

rd

SeA<^a/cta /xerafu

TO opLOLov TTOielv, ovep *'Op,'qpos Trepl rcov *HAtou Poiov <f)r]oi, p^dXXov Se p,r] epireiv pLovoVy dXX* dvaTrqhijaavra (j)vyLV els ro opog avrols oj3eAot?* /cat rds opveis Sc rets 7ra;^etas",
07TT(x)p,eva

KairoL

dirrepovs

rjSrj

ovaas
/cat

/cat

ccr/cevacr/xeVa?,
p-r}

dvarrrapiivas ot^ea^at dnoXavoiev avrcov.


^

ravras, d)s
other MSS.

pLovoL

(fyaKTjv
2

one late MS.


(fjL^aXelv

K(f>aXrjv

After

MSS. read

roiv IxOvujv

(F om.

tcDv):

del.

Guyet.

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the head as well, to his master, bringing the others bones covered over. And tell the wine-servers not to

wait for each of us to ask seven times for a drink but

on one request to pour it out and hand it to us at once, do for their master. And filling a great cup as they let the wine be one and the same for all the guests where is it laid down that he should get drunk on

wine with a

fine

bouquet while

must burst

my belly

on new

stuff?

If you correct and adjust this, Cronus, you will have made living really living and your festival a real If not, let them have their festival, and we festival. shall sit on our haunches praying that when they have

come from the bath the boy will turn up the wine-jar and break it over them, that the cook will burn the
soup and in a fit of absent-mindedness put the fish in the pudding, and that the dog will rush in and eat
all the sausage, while the scullions are busy with the other preparations, and half the cake as well that while the pork and the venison and the sucking-

up

pigs are being cooked they may do what Homer says Helius's cattle did^*^ or rather not only just

crawl, but

and all

jump up and rush to the mountain, spits and that their plump birds, although already plucked and prepared for serving, should take wing and go off likewise, so that they may not enjoy them
;

by themselves.
1

Homer, Od.

xii,

396.

121

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24

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^eXrLGTWv jxvwv, ws
hia(j>epiv'

Gayrjirqs

TTOiSas

8e

avrcov

dvwevTiKTJs fxrjSev rovs (Lpalovs /cat

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/LicraStSovat rjpuv

twv

/xcrptcuv.

2.

KP0N02 EMOI TQI TIMIQTATQI XAIPEIN

Tt Tavra XrjpeiSy a> ovtos, ipLol nepl tcov Trapov25 Tiov eTnareXXwv Kal dvaSaGp,6v tojv dyaOajv ttolclv KeXevcjv ; to Se eTepov dv 117, tov vvv dp)(ovTOS.

yap el p,6vos twv aTrdvTwv dyvwaoets (hs iyoj pikv TToAat paoiXevs o)v TrcVau/xat rots' iraial Stavet/xa? t7]v dp)(rjvy 6 Sc Ztus" pidXiGTa tcjv
davpAl^oj

TOLOVTCov CTTt/LtcAetrat. Tct he r)p,eTpa TavTa p^expfTTeTTCJv Kal KpoTOV Kol (pSrjs Kal pLe6r)Sy Kal tovto
oil

TrXeov rjp,p6jv eiTTd. cocttc Trepl tojv p,ei!l,6vojv d^eXelv to dvi.Gov kol iK ttjs opLolas ^ (fyqs

TO add. Schmieder.

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This in particular will cause them trouble we shall pray for their gold to be dug up from its hiding:

places by ants like those of India and carried off by night to the public treasury ; and that their clothing through neglect of those in charge should be riddled like a sieve by those fine creatures the mice, to be just like a tunny net; and that their pretty, long-haired pages whom they call Hyacinth or Achilles or Narcissus, just as they are handing them the cup should go bald and have their hair fall out and sprout a pointed

beard, like the wedge-shaped beards in the comedy, and have the part around their temples become very hairy and exceedingly prickly, and the area between them smooth and bare. All this and more we shall pray for if they will not give up their excessive selfishness and keep their wealth for everybody's good and give us a moderate share.

2.

CRONUS TO HIS VERY DEAR GREETINGS


!

ME

Why do you talk this nonsense, my man, sending me letters about the way things are and telling me to
a redistribution of property ? That task would I'm surelse, your present ruler. prised that you are the only one who doesn't know that I stopped being king a long time ago when I apportioned my sovereignty to my sons, and that such things are Zeus's special concern. This rule of mine doesn't go beyond dicing, hand-clapping, singing, and getting drunk, and then it's for no longer than seven days. So, as to the more important matters you mention removing inequality and

make

belong to someone

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TreveadaL
'q

TrXovreZv aTroLvras

o Zeu? av xprjfjLarL-

GLV VfJUV.

Et Sc TL TCOV iK T7J9 eOpTf)S dStfCOtTO TIS "T] TrXeoveKTOLTO, ijjLOV dv ctr) St/ca^ctJ/. /cat tTTtcrreAAcej Se Tols TrXovoiois rrepl tcjv SetWcov /cat rov )(oiviKos rod ;^pucrtou /cat rcDv iaOijrcov, d)s /cat
v/xti^

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/cat

a^ta aurous"

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^are,

t /xtJ rt

cuAoyov

26 KeZvoi TTpos ravra Aeyetv


tare ol Trdvrjres
VfJLLS

exctJGLV.

ro Se oXov,

bo^dCovres vepl rwv avrovs oleade elvat /cat jjlovovs tjSvv nva ^lovv rov ^Lov, on SenrveLv re TToXvreXwg eariv avrois
pLcdvoKeadaL otvov rjSeo? /cat iraiolv wpaioLS yvvai^lv opuXelv /cat iadrjat fxaXaKaXg p^p^Jo-^at. ro 8e 7raia> dyvo6tT oTTOtoi^ ioriv. at t ydp (jypovrlbes at Trept toutcdv ov /xt/cpat, oAA* dvdyKT] iTTaypvTTvelv eKdarois, iir} ri 6 oIkovo^los jSAa/ceuaas" ^ V(f)X6piVOS Xddrjy fiTj 6 oho^ o^vvOfj, firj 6 crlros ^Oeipl C^orrj, iq 6 Xr)arrjs v^iXrir ai rd /C7rco/xara, TTLcrrevarr) rols GVKO(j)dvraLS 6 Srjpiog Xeyovau pur) rvpawelv avrov edeXeiv. ravra Se Trdvra ovhk ro TToXXoorov dv etrj piipos rwv dvLOJvrajv avrovs. L yovv rjTTLGraorde rovg ^o^ovs koX rds pipipwas as ')(OVOiVf Trdw dv vpXv <f>evKriov 6 nXovros
/cat /cat

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27 eSofev.

avrov ovrojs dv irore ko~ koXov rjv ro TrXovrelv /cat pvpavridaat, ^aaiXeveiv y d^evra dv avrd /cat 7rapa)(^ajp'qoavra
inet roi otet
o)?
el
/x

dXXoLS Kadrjodav ISiajrevovra /cat dvexeodai vtt* dXXo) rarropLevov ; dAAct rd TToXXd ravra elScoSt
ttXovgIols /cat dpxovGi TTpoaelvai dvdyKrj, dcjyrJKa rr)v apx^jv ev ttolcov.

d roLs
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all

being poor or rich together

Zeus might deal with

you.

But any injustice or selfishness in the festival it would be for me to judge. In fact I am sending to the rich about the dinners and the measure of gold and the clothing, telling them to send you some for the festival. It is just and proper for them to do this, as you say, unless they can bring some reasonable argument against it. But in general you must realise that you poor people have been deceived and have a false view of the rich. You think that they are completely happy and they alone live a life that's pleasant, because they can have expensive dinners, get drunk on sweet wine, mix with pretty boys and women, and wear soft clothing. You have no idea what the truth of it is. In the first place these things bring no little worry they are compelled to keep a watchful eye on every detail so that the
:

steward doesn't get away with any carelessness or wine doesn't go sour, that the corn isn't swarming with weevils, that a burglar doesn't steal the drinking-cups, or the people believe the rabble-rousers when they say the rich man wants to be a tyrant. All these things, moreover, would not make up the tiniest fraction of their troubles. If you had only known the fears and worries they have, you would have thought wealth something to be avoided at all costs. Do you really think that if wealth and kingship were a fine thing I should have been mad enough to let them go and hand them over to others, to sit quietly in private life and put up with orders from another ? No, I knew about all this host of troubles which rich men and rulers have to endure, and I gave up my empire, and a good thing too.
theft, that the

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Take the noisy complaints you made to me just now, that they gorged on pork and cakes in the feasting what do they amount to ? Both of them are perhaps sweet and not disagreeable for the moment, but in the aftermath the matter is turned right round. Then, whereas you will get up on the next day without the headache their drinking gives them and the foul, smoky belching from over-fullness, they not only have the pleasure of all this but having spent most of the night in debauchery with boys or women or in any way their lechery takes them, without difficulty they pick up consumption or pneumonia or dropsy from their excessive indulgence. Again, would you find it easy to point out one of them who was not absolutely pale, looking very much Or one who reached old age on his own like death ? feet and not carried on four men's backs, all gold on the outside, but with his inside cobbled Uke the costumes in tragedy, patched up out of quite worthYou paupers never taste or feed on fish, less rags ? true enough, but don't you see that you've no acquaintance with gout or pneumonia either, or of any-

thing else that they catch for some other reason? Yet even they themselves don't find it pleasant eating this food every day beyond what they want of these dishes ; no, you'll see them sometimes with a better

have

appetite for vegetables and thyme than even you for hare and pork. I say nothing of the other things that worry them a licentious son, a wife in love with a servant, a loved one who yields because he has to and not because he
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Guyet

In MSS.

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KPONOS T0I2 nAOTEIOIS XAIPEIN

31

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Altogether there's a great deal you don't of you only see their gold and purple, and whenever you see them riding out behind a white team you gape and do obeisance to them. Now if you ignored and despised them and neither turned to look at their silver carriage nor during conversation glanced at the emerald in their ring and touched their dress in admiration at its softness, but let them be rich for themselves alone, you may be quite sure they would come to you of their own accord and beg you to dine with them so that they might show you their couches and tables and cups, which are no use if people don't see that they're yours. In fact most of
wants.

know

what they have you would


account, not for their

find

they get on your

own

use, but to impress

you

poor people.
This, then, is the advice I give you, knowing both ways of life as I do. And it is right that during the festival you should remember that after a little time you must all depart from life, the rich giving up their wealth and you your poverty. But I shall write to them as I promised and I know they will not despise

my

words.

3.

CRONUS TO THE RICHGREETINGS

to all and let everyone have his bit. It Avas they said, for there to be equality and not for one man to have too much of what is pleasing while another goes without altogether. I replied that Zeus would see to that better than I, but with regard
right,

common

recently written me complaining that you don't let them share what you have, and, to be brief, they asked me to make the good things

The poor have

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Jacobitz

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MSS.

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SATURNALIA
to the present and the injustices they suppose they suffer at festival- time I saw that here judgment was I promised to write to you. in my hands. Now these requests seem to me to be reasonable. " " can we, shivering in this exHow," they say, treme cold and in the grip of famine, keep festival " So if I wanted them too to share in the as well ? festival, they bade me compel you to give them a share of any clothing you have above your needs or any too coarse for you, and to sprinkle on them a If you do that, they say, they little of your gold. will not even argue with you before Zeus any more about your possessions. Otherwise they threaten a summons for redistribution of property just as soon These things are not at as Zeus begins his cases. all difficult for you to grant out of all that you are rightly blessed with. Oh yes, the dinners and their dining with you they asked me to add this to my letter, that at present you gorge alone behind locked doors, and, if ever at long intervals you are veiling to entertain any of them, there is more annoyance than good cheer in the dinner, and most of what happens is done to hurt them that business of not drinking the same wine as you, for instance goodness how ungenerous that is! They themselves might well be

condemned

for not getting up and going during the proceedings and leaving the banquet entirely to you. But they say that even so they do not drink their

for your cup-bearers, like Odysseus 's comfill, panions,^ have had their ears stuffed with wax. The rest is so disgraceful that I hesitate to mention their complaints of the way the meat is apportioned and
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Homer, Od.

xii,

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SATURNALIA
how the
more
servants stand beside you until you are full There are many to bursting, but run past them.

like complaints of meanness, complaints that bring little credit to gentlemen. In fact the pleasantest thing, more in keeping with conviviality, is equality, and a controller of the feast presides over your banquets just so that all can have an equal

share.

See to it then that they don't accuse you any more, but respect and like you for their share in these few things the expense is nothing to you, but they will never forget that you gave in time of need. Besides, you could not even live in your cities if the poor were not your fellow-citizens and did not contribute in thousands of ways to your happiness; and you would have no one to admire your wealth if you were rich in isolation, privately, and in obscurity. So let many see and admire your silver and your
;

and when you are pledging friendship let them, while they are drinking, examine the cup and estimate the weight themselves, determine the accuracy of the story told on it and the amount of gold For as well as being called that adorns the work. good and kindly you will stop being envied by them. For who would envy the man who goes shares and gives what is fair ? And who would not pray for him
tables,

to live as long as possible in the enjoyment of his blessings ? As you are now, your happiness has no witness, your riches are begrudged you, and your life
It certainly cannot, I am sure, be unpleasant. as pleasant to have your fill by yourselves, as they say lions and lone wolves do, as to mix with clever
is
2

Kai add. Guyet.

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inl KaTcayoTi

134

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fellows

and those who try


first

In the

in every way to please. place they will not allow your banquet

to be deaf and dumb. No, their company means convivial stories, harmless jests, and all sorts of ex-

these are the pleasantest pressions of friendship sorts of pastimes, dear to Dionysus and Aphrodite, dear too to the Graces. Then they will talk to every;

one next day of your sociability and get you liked. this is rightly worth a great deal. I will ask you something. Let us suppose the poor went about with their eyes shut wouldn't you be cross when you had no one to show your purple

And

your thronging attendants, the size of your I leave aside the plots, the hatred you must stir up in the poor against you if you choose to alone. Terrible are the curses enjoy your luxury they threaten to utter against you. May they never be constrained to utter them! For then you will taste neither sausages nor cakes, except what the dog may have left, your lentil-soup will have saltfish dissolved in it, your boar and deer while they're being roasted will plan escape from the oven to the shoo hills, and your birds, wingless though they be, there! they will be flying at full stretch to the homes of the selfsame poor. And worst of all, the
clothes,
?

rings

prettiest of your wine-servers will turn bald all at once, and that after breaking your jar.

Well, then, make plans that befit the festival and are safest for you. Lighten their great poverty for them, and at slight cost you will find friends who are
far

from despicable.

TT7V

add. Jacobitz.

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4.

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136

SATURNALIA
4. THE RICH TO CRONUS GREETINGS Do you really think that you are the only
!

one

written to by the poor in this vein, Cronus? Isn't Zeus already quite deaf from the din of their demands for just that, a redistribution of wealth, and of their charges against fate for inequality in distribution and against us for not considering giving them any share ? But he, being Zeus, knows who is to blame, and for that reason takes no notice of most of their complaints. Nevertheless we shall defend ourselves to you, since you are our lord at
present.
for our part have set before us all you have written that it was a fine thing to succour the needy out of our plenty, and that it was more agreeable to mix and feast with the poor. This is what we always used to do, putting ourselves on an equal footing with them so that not even our guest himself could find anything to complain of. Now in the beginning they said that they asked for very little, but once we had opened our doors to them they never stopped making demand after demand and if they didn't get it all immediately and on demand then there was bad temper and ill-feeling, and maledictions came readily enough. And if they told a lie about us then those who heard them believed them, for they supposed their knowledge to be accurate because they had been with us. So we had the choice either not to give and inevitably be their enemies or to throw

We

everything away and be straightway very poor and Now all enter the ranks of the beggars ourselves. the rest isn't so bad compared with these very dinners you mention. For themselves they do not care so

much about

filling

their bellies, but

when they've
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oIkLciv.

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138

SATURNALIA
drunk more than enough they either nudge the hand of a pretty page when he gives the cup back to them or make attempts on your mistress or your wedded wife. Then, after being sick all over the dining-room, next day back at home they abuse us, saying that they were thirsty and well acquainted with starvation. If you think these are lies we are telling against them, remember your own parasite, Ixion, who was granted a place at the common board and enjoyed equality Yet he, fine fellow that of rank with you, the gods. he was, got drunk and made attempts on Hera. It's this sort of thing that makes us determine not to let them in the house again, for our own safety's sake. But if they were to make an agreement with you to be moderate in their demands, as they now say they are, and refrain from bad behaviour during banquets, then let them join us and dine with us, Furthermore we shall send and good luck to them some of our clothing, as you direct, and spend as much gold as we can as well, and altogether we shan't be found wanting in anything. And let them in their turn cease to be artful in their dealings with us and be friends instead of toadies and spongers. You will find no fault in us if they will do what they
!

ought.

139

HERODOTUS OR AETION
introduction delivered before a Macedonian audience. theme is the description of a painting by Action, a contemporary of Alexander the Great.

An

The

central

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Ppaxft Kar4ai~q N.

142

HERODOTUS OR AETION
were possible to imitate Herodotus 's I do not mean all and everyone much to pray for) but just one of them whether the beauty of his diction, the careful arrangement of his words, the aptness of his native Ionic, his extraordinary power of thought, or the countless jewels which he has wrought into a unity beyond hope of imitation. But where you and I and everyone else can imitate him is in what he did with his composition and in the speed with which he
I

WISH

it

other qualities too. (this would be too

became an established man of repute throughout the whole Greek world. As soon as he sailed from his home in Caria straight
for Greece,

and
for

he bethought himself of the quickest path to fame and a reputation both himself and his works. To travel round
least troublesome

reading his works,

now

in Athens,

now

in Corinth

or Argos or Lacedaemon in turn, he thought a long and tedious undertaking that would waste much

The division of his task and the consequent delay in the gradual acquisition of a reputation did not appeal to him, and he formed the plan I suppose of winning the hearts of all the Greeks at once if he
time.
^

So Graevius

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reXevrala ravra Kal 'Acrtcom ^aat tov

HERODOTUS OR AETION
The great Olympian games were at hand, and Herodotus thought this the opportunity he had been hoping for. He waited for a packed audience to assemble, one containing the most eminent men from all Greece he appeared in the temple chamber, presenting himself as a competitor for an Olympic then he recited his honour, not as a spectator Histories and so bewitched his audience that his books were called after the Muses, for they too were nine in number. By this time he was much better known than the Olympic victors themselves. There was no one who had not heard the name of Herodotus some at Olympia itself, others from those who brought the He had only to appear story back from the festival. " That is that Herodotus and he was pointed out: who wrote the tale of the Persian Wars in Ionic and celebrated our victories." Such were the fruits of In a single meeting he won the his Histories. universal approbation of all Greece and his name was proclaimed not indeed just by one herald but in every city that had sent spectators to the
could.
;
;

festival.

glory.

was learnt. This was the short-cut to Hippias the sophist was a native of the place, and he and Prodicus from Ceos and Anaximenes from Chios and Polus from Acragas and scores of others always gave their recitations in person before the assembled spectators and by this means soon won repulesson
tations.

The

But why need I mention those old sophists, hisand chroniclers when there is the recent story of Action the painter who showed off his
torians,

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errepei-

HERODOTUS OR AETION
picture of The Marriage of Roxana and Alexander at Olympia ? Proxenides, one of the chief judges there at that time, was delighted with his talent and made Action his son-in-law. You may well wonder at the quality of his work that induced a chief judge of the games to give his daughter in marriage to a stranger like Action. The
I have seen it is actually in Italy; myself and can describe it to you. The scene is a very beautiful chamber, and in it there is a bridal couch with Roxana, a very lovely maiden, sitting upon it, her eyes cast do\^Ti in modesty, for Alexander is standing there. There are smiling Cupids: one is standing behind her removing the veil from her head and showing Roxana to her husband another like a

picture

taking the sandal off her foot, already preparing her for bed; a third Cupid has hold of Alexander's cloak and is pulling him with all his might towards Roxana. The king himself is holding out a garland to the maiden and their best man and helper, Hephaestion, is there with a blazing torch in his hand, leaning on a very handsome youth I think he is Hymenaeus ^ (his name is not inOn the other side of the picture are more scribed). ^ two of Cupids playing among Alexander's armour them are carrying his spear, pretending to be labourers burdened under a beam two others are dragging a third, their king no doubt, on the shield, holding it by the handgrips another has gone inside the corslet, which is lying breast-up on the ground he seems to
true servant
is

1
2

God

of marriages.

motif in his Mars and Venus in the National Gallery, London.


Botticelli copied this

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,

HERODOTUS OR AETION
be lying in ambush to frighten the others when they drag the shield past him. All this is not needless triviality and a waste of labour. Action is calling attention to Alexander's
implying that in his love of further forget his armour. point about the picture itself is that it had a real matrimonial significance of quite a different sort it courted Proxenides' daughter for Action! So as a by-product of his Alexander's Wedding he came away with a wife himself and the King for best-man. His reward for his marriage of the imagination was a real-life marriage of his own. Herodotus then (to return to him) thought the Olympic festival a suitable shop-window for showing the Greeks such a wonderful historian of the Greek As for me and in the name of victories as himself. the God of Friendship do not think me mad or that I deI am comparing my works to his, bless him When I first clare that my case and his are alike. came to live in Macedonia, I wondered what should be policy. dearest wish was to become known to you all and to show off my works to as many in Macedonia as I could but to go round visiting each city in person at that time of the year seemed an arduous undertaking, whereas I thought that if I took the occasion of this present festival of your
other love
,

War

Roxana he did not

My

nation and made my appearance and gave my lecture then, my prayers must surely be answered. Here you are then gathered together, the cream of every city, the very epitome of all Macedonia, in the country's finest city, so different, thank good1

So Marcilius and Solanus


T.

MSS. om. vUas

Sci^at tois

EAATyvi/cas bie^iovras

149

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150

HERODOTUS OR AETION
ness, from Pisa with its lack of space, its tents and audience a vulgar huts, its stifling heat; nor is

mob more keen on

seeing athletics, most of them No, thinking Herodotus of secondary importance. there are the finest orators, historians, and rhetoricians no small matter indeed that my arena should not seem far inferior to Olympia. Compare me with Polydamas, Glaucus, and Milo, and I know that

my

you
less

will

judge

and

me perhaps the whip. My arena being what it is, find even this judgment unsatisfactory.

as I am, and then and look at strip altogether deserving of you will not find
I

me me

imprudent.

But remember them

me

should not

151

ZEUXIS OR ANTIOCHUS
painting by Zeuxis (fl. c. 400 B.C.) and the Elephant Battle between Antiochus Soter and the Galatian invaders of Asia

An introduction, as appears from the last paragraph. disquisition on novelty serves to introduce accounts of a '
'

Minor (276

B.C.).

ZEYEI2
1

H ANTIOX02

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jjLovov

154

ZEUXIS OR ANTIOCHUS
Recently I was on way home after lecturing recent audience met to you, when a number of me (I see no objection to telling you a story like this now that you and I are friends) they met me, then, and after greeting me gave some indication of ap-

my

my

emphasised, composition and the degree of freshness it disIt would be better to quote verbatim: played. " What novelty What marvellous paradoxes How The freshness of thought is beyond inventive he is " compare They continued in this strain. They had clearly been taken with the lecture I don't suppose they could have any reason for telUng lies and no flattering a stranger as they did, one who had other reason for claiming their attention. To be honest, however, their praise caused me con-

proval. They accompanied me for some distance, vying in noisy praise until I blushed for shame at the thought that I fell far short of their praises. The substance of their approbation, which all alike was the strangeness of the thought in

my

siderable annoyance, and when they had gone and " So this is I was left alone, I reflected as follows: that the only attraction in they are unwritings,

my

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penetration of intellect, power of perception, Attic grace, good construction, general competence, perOtherwise they haps have no place in my work. would not have ignored these qualities and praised
only the novel and strange element in my style. I, fool that I was, had thought when they rose in approbation that perhaps this particular feature too had some attraction for them I remembered the truth of Homer's remark ^ that the new song takes the fancy but I did not think to attribute so of an audience much indeed all of it to novelty, but supposed novelty to be a kind of additional ornament making some contribution indeed to the approbation of my work, the audience's real praise and commendation, however, going to those other qualities. As a result my elation overstepped its bounds to think I nearly believed them when they called me unique and in a class apart in Greece and other flatteries of this kind. In the words of the proverb, my treasure turned out ashes, and their approval is not much different from that which they would give a conjurer. I want to give you an example from a painter. Zeuxis, that pre-eminent artist, avoided painting popular and hackneyed themes as far as he could (I

mean

he was always aiming at and whenever he thought up something unheard-of and strange he showed the precision of his craftsmanship by depicting it. Among the bold innovations of this Zeuxis was his painting of a female Hippocentaur, one moreover that was feeding twin Hippocentaur children, no more than babies. There is a copy of this picture now at Athens made with
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strict accuracy from the original. Sulla, the Roman commander, was said to have sent off the original

you as far as I can, though I am certainly no artist. I remember it quite well, as I saw it not long ago in
the house of a painter in Athens. The intense admiration I felt at the time for the craftsmanship will perhaps help me in my endeavour to give you a
full description.

with his other trophies to Italy, but I suppose the ^ ship then sank off Malea with the loss of all its cargo, the However that may be, I including painting. saw the copy of the painting and will describe it to

The Centaur herself is depicted lying on fresh young grass with all the horse part of her on the ground. Her feet are stretched behind her. The human part is slightly raised up on her elbows. Her fore-feet are not now stretched out, as you might
expect with one lying on her side one foot is bent with the hoof drawn under like one who kneels, while the other on the other hand is beginning to straighten and is taking a grip on the ground, as is the case with horses striving to spring up. She holds one of her offspring aloft in her arms, giving it the breast in human fashion the other she suckles from her mare's teat like an animal. Towards the top of the picture, apparently on some vantage point, is a Hippocentaur, clearly the husband of her who is feeding her children in two ways. He is leaning down and laughing. He is not completely visible, but only to a point halfway down his horse body. He holds aloft in his right hand a lion's whelp, suspending it above his head to frighten the children in his fun.
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The other qualities, not completely discernible by the eye of an amateur like myself, nevertheless display the whole power of his craftsmanship such things as precision of line, accuracy in the blending of colours, taste in application of the paint, correct use of shadow, good perspective, proportion, and symmetry. But let the sons of artists appreciate these points, men who make it their business to know them. For my part I praised Zeuxis for this in particular, that in one and the same subject he has

shown
ways.

his extraordinary craftsmanship in so

many

His husband is completely frightening and absolutely wild he has a proud mane, being almost completely covered in hair not only the horse part of him but his human chest as well and especially
;

and his glance, although he is laughaltogether savage, wild, and of the hills. Such then is the husband. The horse part of the female he made is most beautiful, with a strong resemblance to Thessahan fillies when they are still untamed and virgin. The top half is that of a very beautiful woman, apart from the ears, which alone of her features are those of a satyr. The union and junction of bodies whereby the horse part is fused with the woman part and joined to it is effected by a gradual change, with no abrupt transition; the eye, as it moves gradually from one to the other, is In the case quite deceived by the subtle change. of the young, their babyhood is wild and already fearsome in its gentleness I thought this a wonderI admired too the very babylike way in ful touch.
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which both young were looking up at the Hon cub as they sucked at the nipple, holding close and nestling against their mother. Zeuxis thought that this picture would send his viewers into raptures over his skill when they saw it. They certainly applauded it what else could they do when they met a sight so lovely to gaze upon? But everyone's warmest praise went to the points they

praised in me too just recently it was the strangeness of the idea, and the freshness of the sentiment of the work, quite unprecedented, that struck them. So when Zeuxis saw that the novelty of the subject was taking their attention and distracting them from the technique of the work, and that the accuracy of detail was taking second place, he said to his pupil: "Come on, Micio, cover up the picture and These specall of you pick it up and take it home. tators are praising only the mere clay of my work, but as to the effects of light, they do not worry much whether they are beautiful and skilfully executed, and the novelty of the subject goes for more than the accuracy of its parts."
;

said, not without some feeling Antiochus the one called the Saviour is said to have had a similar experience in the battle If you agree I'll tell you this against the Galatians. He knew that they were bold fighters story too. and saw that there were many of them, and that their phalanx was compact and firm, with their bronze-clad warriors in the van and heavy-armed troops in the rear to a depth of twenty-four ranks,

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while in the centre were eighty scythed chariots and twice as many two-horse chariots ready to make a Antiochus then thought little of his chances sally. of defeating such an invincible array. His own force had been hurriedly prepared and was not impressive or strong enough for the engagement. He had
troops
force.

very few men, mostly targeteers and light-armed light infantry made up over half of his

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he

thought

it

prudent
to

to

make an immediate
war.

truce and to

come

some

honourable arrangement for putting an end to the

He had with him, however, Theodotas of Rhodes, a fine soldier and skilful tactician, and this man's presence restored his confidence. Now Antiochus had sixteen elephants, and Theodotas told him to
keep them hidden as much as possible so they should not be seen towering above the troops on the signal for battle just when the fighting was to start and the troops to come to grips and the enemy's cavalry charged, the Galatians would open their phalanx and stand aside to let the chariots through at that moment a group of four elephants should be sent against the cavalry on either flank, the remaining eight attacking the scythed and two-horse chariots. Such a movement, said Theodotas, would frighten their horses and turn them back in flight against the Galatian ranks. So it turned out. Neither the Galatians themselves nor their horses had previously seen an elephant and they were so confused by the unexpected sight that, while the beasts were still a long way off and they could only hear the trumpet, ing and see their tusks gleaming all the more brightly against their bodies dark all over and their trunli
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GrpariojraL, ols ye r) GcorrjpLa iv e/c/catSe/ca rovroLs drjplois iyevero' ojs el p/rj ro Kaivov rov 6edp,aros i^eTrXrj^e rovs 7roXep,LOVs, rl dv r]p.eLS eiri re ro) rpoTraicp KeXevei rjpLev TTpos avrovs ; aXXo p/qheVy iXe<f)avra 8e piovov iyKoXdifsai. 12 "Q.pa rolwv pie GKonelv p/rj Kal rovpLov 6p,OLOV ^ 166

ZEUXIS OR ANTIOCHUS
and fled in a disorderly Their inrout before they were within bowshot. fantry were impaled on each other's spears and trampled underfoot as they were, by the cavalry, which came riding into them. The chariots too turned
raised like hooks, they turned

back against their own not without bloodshed

" in the words of Homerranks, the

men and

broke their

Once the chariots clattered as they overturned." ^ horses had veered from their straight course in their fear of the elephants, they threw off their drivers " ^ and the empty chariots rattled on," actually with their and scythes any of their tearing cutting

own men in their path.

Many men were caught since

The elephants followed, trampling on them, tossing them aloft in their trunks, snatching and piercing them with their tusks, and in the end these animals had presented Antiochus with
there was utter confusion.

an overwhelming victory.

The Galatians lost many killed in the great slaughter. The rest were taken prisoner, except for a very few who escaped to the mountains in time. Antiochus's Macedonian contingent raised the Paean " and gathering round him crowned him king of
" with acclamation. Antiochus is glorious victory said to have wept as he addressed his troops. " " Men," he said, we owe our lives to these sixteen animals; so let us rather feel shame. For if the

strangeness of what they saw had not thrown the enemy into confusion, "what should we have been Then he ordered them to compared with them? decorate the trophy with a carved elephant and

nothing else. It is time for


1

me

to consider whether
2

my army
160.

is

Homer,

//.

xvi, 379.

Homer,

II, xi,

167

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Ta>

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ols 8c iyo) CTTCTTot^etv, ov

irdw
p,v

ravra iv Xoyo) nap* avrols eorLv^ oAA* ort


drjXeia
,

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So/cet ainoLS.
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pLOVov afta

rod dcdrpov heLKvveiv,


*

ra

fiv

fJidxv^ <5'

TOC*

to.

fiv

a^ia fidxrjs

NXM;

a^iov Mras.

i68

ZEUXIS OR ANTIOCHUS
like that of Antiochus
fight, lins to see,

in general inadequate for the but with some elephants, some queer hobgob-

and some conjuring

tricks.

It is these

The qualities at any rate that everyone praises. things I had confidence in are of no account at all to them. They marvel only because a female Hippocentaur has been painted, and they think it novel and portentous, as indeed it is. The rest of Zeuxis's work was wasted, I suppose. But no, not wasted you are real artists and examine each detail with

craftsmen's eyes.

may be worthy

My only hope of its audience.

is

that

my

show

169

.^.1

SLIP OF THE TONGUE IN GREETING


:

An apology to a patron for a slip of the tongue gives an opportunity for a disquisition on the three forms of greeting "Joy to you," "Health to you," and "Do well." For Lucian's sensitivity to niceties of diction see The Mistaken Critic {Loeb, vol. V, pp. 371 ff., with Harmon's introduction).

YHEP TOY EN TH nP02ArOPEY2EI nTAI2MAT02


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172

rijs

ypcufyfjs

ttow

diropcp

7rpopXijp,arLt

TTpo'Covrt,

hk

A SLIP OF THE TONGUE IN GREETING


It
is difficult

for a mortal to avoid the caprice of


it is

some power on high, but


heavenly power.

much more

difficult to

find a defence for a silly slip sent

by some such

Both of these misfortunes have me. When I came to you to give I ought to have used the you the morning greeting, " usual expression Joy to" you," but like a golden Health to you," a pleasass I blundered and said ant enough greeting, but not suitable it is not for the morning. As soon as I had said it I was all I began to sweat and went pink. sixes and sevens.

now happened

to

Some

of the company thought it a slip naturally others thought that I had become a fool in my old age, or that it was a hangover from yesterday's drinking. You took it very well, though not a trace of a smile to mark my slip of the tongue. So I thought it a good idea to write something to comfort myself, so as not to be too upset over my slip, or think it intolerable if I, an old man, had fallen so far from what was proper before so many witnesses. I don't think an apology was necessary for a tongue that slipped into a wish so pleasant. When I began to write, I thought that I was taking

enough

on an impossible task, but as

went on

found

^73

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p,r]KTt, <l>povTiLV SrjXoL.

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//. ix,

225.

174

A SLIP OF THE TONGUE IN GREETING


me plenty to say. But before I tell you this, let ** these about words a few suitable greetings Joy say " " to you," Do well," and Health to you." " " Joy to you is the ancient greeting, not however confined to the morning or to the first meeting, but they used it whenever they first caught sight of
one another, as in
**

Joy
and

to you,

you lord of

this

Tirynthian land,"
to talk over

after dinner their wine, as in


'*

when they were ready


is

Joy to you, Achilles, there Of meat for all alike." ^


declaring to
it

no lack

mission.
**

when Odysseus was They used


!

also

him his embassy's when they took their

leave, as in

No longer mortal know me now. Joy to you To you a god divine." ^ This greeting was not reserved for a special time, as now only for morning. Indeed even on the most unwelcome and inauspicious occasions they used it
nevertheless, as in Euripides when Polynices at the end of his life says " For now does darkness gird me Joy to you
!

round."

It was not just a sign for them of friendly feeling, but also of dislike and final parting. For example, " meant that they to bid "Joy to it and a long one washed their hands of it.
verse of Empedocles. Euripides, Phoenissae, 1453.

175

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3

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N:

176

SLIP

OF THE TONGUE IN GREETING

Philippides, the one who acted as courier, is said to have used it first in our sense when he brought

the news of victory from Marathon and addressed the magistrates in session when they were anxious how the battle had ended; "Joy to you, we've won," he said, and there and then he died, breathing his last breath with that "Joy to you." Cleon the Athenian demagogue also began his letter from " Sphacteria with Joy to you," when he gave the news of the good victory there and the capture of However after him Nicias in his the Spartiates.^ despatches from Sicily followed the old practice and began right away with the matter in hand. The admirable Plato himself, a most sound authority on such matters, altogether rejected the " as bad and pointless. He subuse of "Joy to you " stitutes Do well," which implies a good state of both body and soul. In a letter to Dionysius ^ he " " censures him for greeting Apollo with Joy to you in his poem to the god; it is unworthy of the Pythian, he says, and not even for men of taste is it V becoming, let alone gods. The divine Pythagoras chose not to leave us anything of his own, but if we may judge by Ocellus the Leucanian and Archytas and his other disciples, " " " he did not prefix Joy to you or Do well," but " Health to you." At any told them to begin with rate all his school in serious letters to each other be" gan straightway with Health to you," as a greet1 2

424 Ep.

B.C.,

Ill,

during the Peloponnesian War. 315B.

'0/f<AAa)

two

late

MSS. and Aldinus

o/ctAw

6k4kX<d

other MSS.' (oWVAo; V).

177

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Kol

7)

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178

A SLIP OF THE TONGUE IN GREETING


ing most suitable for both body and soul, encompassing all human goods. Indeed the Pentagram, the triple intersecting triangle which they used as a " Health." In symbol of their sect, they called short they thought that health included doing well and joy, but that the converse did not altogether hold. Some of them called the Quaternion,^ their most solemn oath, which made for them the perfect number, the Beginning of Health. Philolaus, for

example.

But why quote the ancients when there is Epicurus ? certainly enjoyed joy, and chose Pleasure as the chief good. In his more serious letters (there are not many of these) and in those to his dearest friends he generally began straightway with " Health to too and in Old Comedy you will you." In tragedy " " often find Health said straightway first. The

He

greeting
"

Good

health and joy be yours

"

Alexis says clearly puts health before joy. " Good health, lord At long last

my

you are

here,"

and Achaeus
"
I

come
you,"
^

in dreadful case, but health I wish to

The sum of the


1

first

+2+3+4=

four integers,
10.

i.e.

Homer, Od. xxiv, 402.

'
rihri

Marcilius

ol 8c

MSS.
179

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aLTcb 8' vyCeiav TTpwrov, elr evirpa^iav, rpirov he ^aipeiv, elr 6(j)LXeLv fju-qSevi.

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6
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Kaipos

TJhrj
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A SLIP OF THE TONGUE


and Philemon
**

IN

GREETING

First I beg good health, and second doing well, Thirdly to have joy, and last to owe no debts."

does the writer of that drinking-song which " Plato mentions say ^ ? Good health is best, then third wealth," and he never mentions joy good looks, at all. I need hardly mention that most familiar piece of all which everybody quotes,
"
I'd live with thee,

What

Through

all
is

O Health, chief of the gods the mortal Ufe that's left to me." ^
the chief of the gods, her work the is to be preferred to other

Then

if

health

enjoyment of good health


blessings.

I could show you thousands of other passages in the poets and historians and philosophers which put health first, but I shall beg to be excused, or my writing will be guilty of the bad taste of an adolescent, and only knock one nail out with another. But a few things from ancient history I remember are to the point, and I may as well add them for you. Just before the Battle of Issus, as Eumenes of Cardia says in his letter to Antipater, Hephaestion came early into Alexander's tent. He blundered or was confused (as I was) or was driven to it by some " Health to yoii, god when he gave my greeting ** it is time to set the battleking," he said, already
:

1 Plato, GorgiaSy 7. The scolium is quoted in full by Athenaeus, Deipn., xv, 40. * Attributed to Ariphron of Sicyon, Ath., Deipn., xv, 63.

KapStavos Solanus

Sa/>8tawj

MSS.

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THE WORKS OF LUCIAN


he rcov TTapovTOiv npo? ro Trapdho^ov rrjs TTpoaayopevGeoJS Kol rod *H<^atcrTtcovo? oXlyou Selv vn alSovs K9av6vTOS , ^AXe^avSpos, Ac;)^o/xai, elne, to yap ocjovs iiravri^eiv diro rrjs TTjv KXrjhova.
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10

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ttjs

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vai,

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7rpoayevr]Gop,evix)v.

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avro)
ot/xat <f)p6vi, XoyL^6pbevo

rwv dXXcov

on

SLIP OF

THE TONGUE IN GREETING

line."

But Alexander

The others present were upset by the strange address, and Hephaestion almost died for shame. "

now promised

When

It has I accept the omen. said, us a safe return from the battle." Antiochus Soter was about to engage the

Galatians, he dreamed he saw Alexander standing by him, who told him to give the army the password " " Health before the battle, and under that word he

won

his amazing victory. Ptolemy, the son of Lagos, when writing to Seleucus clearly reversed the usual order by putting " " Health to you at the beginning of his letter, and " instead of wishing him at the end "Joy to you Dionysodorus who collected his letters strength.
tells

us this.

Then Pyrrhus of Epirus also is worthy of mention. As a general he was second only to Alexander and
endured a myriad changes of fortune. In all his prayers to the gods and sacrifices and offerings he never asked them for victory or increased kingly dignity or glory or excessive wealth ; his prayer was for this thing alone good health he was sure that I think if he had this he would easily get all the rest. he was right when he considered that all the blessings in the world are worth nothing when health is the one thing he hasn't got. Yes, someone will say, we have assigned the proper time for each phrase, but you have switched

and even you have still


it
;

if

you have done nothing

in all justice

made

a slip

else wrong, you've put a

1
2 3

rw add. Cobet.
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rdxa av 177-77 ''*^- ov Bekker f(f>rj(Tda MSS.


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be

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A SLIP OF THE TONGUE

IN

GREETING

helmet on your shins and greaves on your head. Oh, that would be yes, my good sir, I would answer,
reasonable
if

there were any time at


as
it is

all

when

health

wasn't needed;

morning, noon, and night


trates

you always need health


,

especially you magisso much on your " " Joy to you is only an auspicious bodily vigour. " " Health to you is beginning, a prayer in fact.

and busy

men who depend

positive
for

and useful
;

it

reminds you of what makes

good health it is a warning as well as a prayer. Now in the book of instructions you always get from
the emperor, isn't the care of your health ?
first

injunction to you to take

not be of

rightly so. You would much use otherwise. Indeed you yourselves, if I know any Latin, also often return the " " word Health ^ when you shake hands.

And

In saying
discard
"

all this I

place ; me to sui*prise you

and put in its Health you Joy it be would this was an accident ridiculous for
to

"

did not want deliberately to " "

all

by changing the usual times of

the greetings. I am grateful to heaven that my slip was a switch into something much more auspicious

and

slid into

something better.

Perhaps the god-

dess Health or Asclepius himself inspired me on purpose to promise you health through me. I could
certainly never have
1

done

it

without a god's interSalve."

In Latin

"

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186

A SLIP OF THE TONGUE


vention, when in a long life.
I

IN GREETING
like this before

was never confused

But, if I must make a human apology for what has happened, there is nothing strange, if a fervent desire for your good opinion in all that is best was too strong and in my utter confusion I stumbled into the opposite effect. A man might also be startled away from proper deliberation by the crowd of soldiers pushing their way to the front or not wait-

know

ing their turn in presenting their petitions. But I that you at any rate have taken the affair as
a sign of modesty and simplicity and a mind undebased and unsophisticated, even if the others referred
it to ignorance or bad training or idiocy. Excessive boldness in such matters is not far off

May I never make audacity and shamelessness. such a slip, or, if I do, may I happen on some lucky
phrase
!

Indeed they say that something like this happened to the first Augustus. It happened that he had decided a certain case correctly and acquitted a defendant who had been unjustly prosecuted on a most serious charge. The man acknowledged his
gratitude in a loud voice
for

Thank you, Emperor, " your bad and unjust judgment! Augustus's courtiers were furious and would have torn him to " Calm your anger. It pieces, but the emperor said, is his meaning, not his words, that you must con:

"

sider."

That was

his answer,

but

if

you look at

my
187

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i88

A SLIP OF THE TONGUE

IN

GREETING
;

meaning, the intention, you'll see, was good my words, they too were auspicious. Having now reached this point, I think I reasonably be afraid of something else some
:

if at

may may

think the slip deliberate, a pretext for writing this defence. May my composition, dearest Asclepius, be such that all may see it as a starting point of a display, not as a defence.

189

APOLOGY FOR THE "SALARIED POSTS IN GREAT HOUSES"


in an administrative position in the Civil Egypt, defends himself against the charge of hypocrisy. His earlier essay {Loeb, vol. Ill, pp. 411 ff.) had attacked the life of educated men who took paid employment in the houses of the rich.

Lucian, Service in

now

AnoAoriA
1

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iavrov

4>4podai,

N.

192

APOLOGY FOR THE "SALARIED POSTS IN GREAT HOUSES"


I HAVE long been wondering, my dear Sabinus, what it probably occurred to you to say now that " you have read my essay on Salaried Posts in Great Houses." It is quite certain that you had a good laugh when you read it but I am trying now to fit the detailed and general comments you made to the If I am any good at divination, I think I can text. hear you saying: "To think that anyone could write that and work up such a devastating indictment
;

against that sort of life, then, when the die falls the other way up, completely forget it and himself of his own free will rush headlong into a slavery so manifest
!

How many Midases and Croesuses and conspicuous and whole Pactoluses have persuaded him to throw away his liberty, the object of his care and companion of his nurture since childhood? Already within sight of Aeacus himself, viith one foot almost in the ferry-boat he lets himself be dragged and pulled along as though by a golden collar fastened round his throat ^ What bracelets and necklaces There is much inconsistency the idle rich must have rivers here between his present life and his essay
!

'

See

On

Sal. Posts.,

Loeb,

vol.

iii,

7.

193
VOL. VI.

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194

APOLOGY
flowing uphill and the world upside down and recantation for the worse,' not for a Helen indeed, or what happened at Troy ; ^ no, here in very fact
'

'

'

are your words turned upside down, although they seemed well enough before."

That's what you said to yourself, I've no doubt. Perhaps you will offer me some such advice, not untimely, but friendly, and becoming to an honest philosopher like yourself. If I put your mask on and answer properly, all will be well for us, and we If not, well, shall sacrifice to the God of Reason. Well then it is time will what is lacking. add you
I must keep quiet for us to change the scene endure your cutting and cautery if need be survival's sake; you must apply the ointment at the same time have the knife ready and
;

and
for

and
the

Now you, Sabinus, take cauterising iron red-hot. the word and thus you now address me " dear friend, your essay, as is right, has long been admired, both before a great crowd at its first
:

My

appearance, as those

who then heard

it

told

me, and

privately among educated people who have not hesitated to use and handle it. The style could not be censured, its content was ample and showed a

knowledge of the world it was clear in detail and, most important of all, it was useful for everybody and particularly for the educated, to save them
;

is

all falling into servitude through ignorance. changed ; this course seems better to you, to bid
^

Now

The poet Stesichorus recanted

his attack

on Helen of

Troy.

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196

APOLOGY
freedom good-bye
verse
*

for ever,

and to follow that sordid

Where gain

is,

be a slave beyond your nature.'


;

Take care no one hears you reading it again keep written copies out of the way of anyone who sees your present life, and pray Hermes down below to
Lethe on those who have already Otherwise you will be like the man in the Corinthian story, a Bellerophon who wrote the book against yourself.^ Indeed I don't see what answer you can make to give you a good face before your
sprinkle plenty of

heard

it.

accusers, especially if they are laughing at you and praise the essay and its freedom while they see the writer himself enslaved and willingly putting his neck under the yoke. It would be reasonable enough, at
least, if they said that someone else was the noble author, and you were a jackdaw strutting in borrowed or, if it is yours, that you were another plumes Salaethus who made a most severe law against adultery at Croton and was admired for it, but shortly afterwards was himself caught seducing his brother's wife. It would be said that you were exactly that Salaethus no, he was much more restrained than you; love caught him, as he said in his defence, and he jumped readily and bravely into the fire, although the people of Croton now pitied him and granted him exile if he preferred. But your case is
;

much more
^

shocking

you gave a precise description

Bellerophon carried a letter requesting his execution. Horn., 11. vi, 155 sqq.

So T:

roi

[jLvdov

ravrov

ti

N.

197

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dTTOpijcrovGL

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drrodepievoi

ra
,

reco? /xcv 6px^loO at irdw Kal inl ttoXv davfjLdCeaOai Kal ifjbjjLeXajg KOGfjLLCos pbivovra iv rw GX'^P'O.ri Kal ro TTpenov ^vXdrrovra Kal rots aSovGL Kal avXovai GvyKtvovfJievov ufxevaiov, CTTCt 8e elhev iG^dha ofjLtat r^ dp.vyhaXov noppoj KeifjLevrjv, jxaKpa ;!^atpctv (fipdoavra rols avXols Kal pvdfJiOLS Kal opx'^jJiaGL GvvapTrdGavra Kararpco-

KLVov

yap hihaxOivTa

198

APOLOGY
\n

your essay of the slavishness of a

life

of that sort

and added your condemnation of the thousand u^pleasant things a man suffered and did once he fell into a rich man's power and put himself in chains, yet in extreme old age you chose such an ignoble service when you were almost over the threshold into death, and furthermore you all but plumed yourself on entering that service. At any rate the more distinguished a person everyone thinks you, the more ridiculous you will seem if your present life
contradicts your essay. **

However, why need

against you
*

when

I look for a new charge that splendid tragedy says


:

hate a wiseacre who's not wise for himself.'

Your

accusers will find plenty more examples to Some will compare you to quote against you. tragic actors, on stage each an Agamemnon, Creon, or Heracles himself, but with their masks off a Polus or Aristodemus, playing a part for money, hissed and whistled off the stage, and sometimes some of them are flogged, if the audience wishes. Others will say you are like the monkey which they say the famous Cleopatra owned; it was trained to dance most elegantly and in time, and was much adnciired as it kept up a part, behaving in a seemly fashion as it accompanied the singers and flautists of the bridal procession. But when he saw a fig, I suppose, or an almond some way off on the ground, then good-bye to flutes and rhythms and

TToiaiv

(f>daiv

or

(f>aatv

other

MSS.
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ycLV,
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i^op^oordp-evos rrjv iXevOeplav.

TOiavra TTpdrreiv V7Top,v6vTOJv. l yovv vttoOolto TL9 rep Xoyip rov ALGx^vr)v p.rd rj]v Kara rod Tt7

pidpxov Kariqyopiav avrov aXcovai Kal (j>wpa6rjvai TO, o/xota ndGxovra, ttogov dv otet irapd rcov opwvrcov yeveodac rov ycAcora, t TLp,apxov p,V 7]v6vvv ttI rolg KaO^ (jjpav r)p,aprT)p,evoL, avros 8e yepojv TJSr) roiavra els eavrov TvapevopLei ; ro
8*

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rw

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os

dTTOK7]pvrro}v ^rjxos <f)dppiaKov Kal avriKa KaraTTavGeiv rovs irdoxovras V7nGxvovp.evos avrog pce-

ra^v
1

GTTci)p,evos vtto

^t^X^^ e^aivero.

Horn.,

11. ix,

313.

Homer,

II. xxiii,

495.

'

Nemesis.

200

APOLOGY
dances
!

he grabbed and ate

it

up

after pulling off his

mask and even tearing it up. You then, they would say, were not a mere actor, but a poet of the noblest sentiments and a lawgiver but when this fig appeared you
;

were shown up a monkey, with philosophy on your lips, hiding one thing in your heart, while saying another.* ^ So it may be fairly said against you that what you say and the matters for which you ask to be praised wet your lips, but leave the palate 2 So retribution has followed close. You dry.' rushed headlong to attack human needs, then a little later forswore your freedom in what was almost a ^ public proclamation. If Adrasteia stood behind you when your accusations were winning your reputation, she must have laughed, knowing as a god would what a turncoat you were going to be you couldn't have spat in your bosom,* she would think, before thinking fit to accuse those who were driven to do this sort of
*
'

thing by fortune's fickleness. Suppose for argument's sake that after Aeschines had made his accusation against Timarchus he had been caught doing just the same, in the very act, don't you think those who saw it would have roared with laughter at this fellow who censured Timarchus for the sins of youth, and committed the same crimes himself in his old age?^ In short you seem just like that drugseller who was advertising cough medicine and promising immediate relief to sufferers, while he himself was racked by a cough as he talked for all

to see."
nemesis. Aeschines was impeached by Timarchus, and brought a countercharge of debauchery against him. This made it illegal for Timarchus to undertake any prosecution.
^

To avert

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202

APOLOGY
'Yhis and a lot more of the sort could be said by a prosecutor like you in a case with such scope and countless opportunities for criticism. But now I am wondering to what defence I should turn. Is it best to play the coward, turn my back, and

my wrong-doing, taking refuge in the universal defence. Fortune, Fate, Destiny ? Shall I ask pardon from my critics, who know that we have no control and are driven by a mightier power, especially one of those just mentioned ? Shall I say we do not
but have no responsibility at all for what we ? Surely this is a very vulgar excuse, and, miy good friend, you would not let me use any such defence or call in Homer as an advocate and chant
wish
it,

admit

say or do

his:

"

No man,

say

I,

ever escaped Fate."

and again,
"

Spun the thread at his birth, the day his mother bore him." ^

But if I abandoned this argument as quite unconvincing and said this that I was not hooked by money or any such expectation when I formed the present association, but that I admired my patron's intelligence and courage and elevation of thought and wished to share the fortunes of such a man, I fear that besides the accusation being brought against me I
1

Homer,

II. vi,

488.

Homer,

11.

xx, 128.

2 '

So r^ om, c5v T^: a av A. ^ tt. N. So F and Homer dv8pa>v ttvai other MSS. aiTiav om. T: So F BeBoiKa vpos
:

/X17

koI ravra

fXeyxioitai irpoaXa^wy

N.

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So Fritzsche
KuAAa/jajSiv

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MSS. (jne'AAoi FN.

204

APOLOGY
may be accused of flattery, and find myself knocking out a nail with a nail, as they say, and a small one with a big one at that, since flattery is considered the most servile and therefore the worst of all the

vices.

Well then, if I am pleased with neither line of defence, am I driven to agree or to confess that I have
no honourable argument? Perhaps I have still one anchor left on board, to complain of old age and disease and poverty as well, which persuades one to do In such a or endure anything to get away from it. case perhaps it is not untimely to call on Euripides* Medea to come and say in my defence those iambic
lines,

parodied a
I

little

"

know

But poverty
I

the evil that I'm going to do. is stronger than my plans."

knows

do not quote the Theognis passage, but everybody it, where he thinks it not improper for men to throw themselves from lofty crags into the deep yawning sea with its monsters, if one can escape
poverty in that way.^ Such are the pleas one might bring in defence in such a case as this, none of them pretty. But don't be afraid, my friend, I'm not going to use any of them. May there never be such a famine at Argos that they try to sow the gymnasium at Cyllarabis, and may I never be so destitute of a reasonable defence that in my need I look for refuges of this sort against the accusation. But reaUse this: there is a very great
" " " for Euripides, Medea, 1078, with passion poverty." Theognis, 173-178 {Loeh ed. J. M. Edwards, Elegy and Iambus, 1).
^ 2

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206

APOLOGY
between entering a rich man's house as a where one is a slave and endures what my essay describes, and entering public service, where one administers affairs as well as possible and is paid
difference
hireling,

by the Emperor for doing it. Consider every detail and examine it for yourself. You will find the two lives two octaves apart, to use a musical phrase, and as like each other as lead and silver, bronze and You are gold, anemone and rose, monkey and man. paid in both cases and are under a master's orders,
but there is a world of difference. In the one case the slavery is obvious, and those who enter on these conditions are not much different from slaves, whether bought or bred at home, while those who handle public business and make themselves of service to states and whole provinces cannot rightly be criticised merely because they are paid, or be brought down to the same level of general denuncia-

Otherwise you must post-haste abolish all of this kind neither administrators of all the provinces nor governors of cities nor commanders of corps or whole armies will please since they are paid for their work. No, you must not, I fancy, overturn everything because of an isolated example, or lump
tion.
offices
:

wage-earners together. In short I did not say that all wage-earners lived a mean and petty existence: no, it was those in private houses who endured slavery under the pretext of education that I pitied. My present situation, my
friend,
is is altogether different. My private standing not reduced, and in public life I take a share and

all

ToaavTa Fritzsche

Totaura

MSS.
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208

APOLOGY
play my part in the mightiest of empires. If you consider the matter you will realise that my personal responsibility in this administration of Egypt is not

the least important

the

initiation of court-cases

and

their arrangement, the recording of all that is done and said, guiding counsel in their speeches, keeping

the clearest and most accurate copy of the president's


decisions in all faithfulness and putting them on public record to be preserved for all time; and my salary not from any private person, but from the emperor,

and it is no small one at that, many talents in fact. For the future I have no small hopes, if what is likely comes about the supervision of a province or some

other imperial service.

So

am

walling to

be bolder than

need be, to

close

with the charge against me, and to advance beyond defence. Moreover I say to you that no one does anything without pay, not even if you instance those at the head of things, for not even the emperor himself
is

unpaid.

do not mean tributes and taxes that


subjects
;

come in every year from his most important reward is

no, the king's

praise, universal fame,

reverence for his benefactions, statues and temples


these are

and shrines bestowed on him by his subjects all payment for the thought and care which such men evidence in their continual watch over the common weal and its improvement. To compare
small vdth great, if you will begin at the top of the heap and descend to each of its component parts, you

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rjSeis

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flVOL9.

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/catrot

iv

fivplats

rats

Homer,

II. xviii,

104.

210

APOLOGY
will see that

we

differ

but that in other respects


alike.

from those at the top in size, we are all wage-earners


a law that no one must do

Now
;

if I

had

laid

down

any work, I would rightly be thought guilty of breaking it but if this was nowhere said in my essay, but
rather that a good man ought to be active, how better could he employ himself than to work with his friends
for the best ends

and

in full

view under the open sky

to let his loyalty, seriousness of purpose, and good will in his undertakings be put to the test, so that he " ^ " in may not be a useless burden to the earth

Homer's words

Above
that
it is

all,

those
will

who censure me must remember

whom they

not a wise

manif such

there be anywhere

censure but one from the

common

people, one who has trained himself in words and received moderate praise for them, but one completely unpractised in that acme of the virtues that the cream

of men display. And surely I ought not to be grieved even on this account, for I at any rate have met no other who fulfilled the promise of wisdom. However
I

should be surprised
present
life

my

you you knew me long ago when

if

were to condemn

me
I

for

was

commanding the highest

fees for the public practice

of rhetoric, at the time when you went to see the Western Ocean and the lands of the Celts and met

me

my

fees

were

as high as those of
is

any professor.
I offer

This then,

my

friend,

the defence which

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212

APOLOGY
though I am with countless tasks, of prime importance to secure my full As for the rest, even if they acquittal at your hands. all condemn me unanimously, I shall be content to " ^ quote HippocUdes doesn't care."
to you, busy

thinking

it

A proverb from the story in Herodotus, vi,

127-129.

213

HARMONIDES
An
appeal to a patron for support.

The

story of Harr
flattery.

monides and Timotheus gives point to the inevitable

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HARMONIDES
theus,

Harmonides the pipe-player once asked Timo" who was his teacher. Tell me, Tlmotheus, how can I become famous in the art ? What must I do to become known to all the Greek world? You have already (and I thank you) taught me the rest of the art I mean, to tune the pipe accurately, to blow to lightly and harmoniously into the mouthpiece, fit the fingers with easy touch to the full rise and fall
:

of the music, to step in rhythm, to direct the music harmoniously in the direction of the dancers, and to master the peculiarities of each mode the frenzy of the Phrygian, the excitement of the Lydian, the dignity of the Dorian, the elegance of the Ionian. All this I have learnt from you. But the most important matter the reason for my interest in the I don't see how pipe-playing art of pipe-playing I mean universal fame, will ever bring me to it. being noticed in a crowd, being pointed at, and on putting in an appearance anywhere having everyone turn towards me and say my name, That is Harmonides the outstanding piper just as when you too, Timotheus, first left your home in Boeotia and accompanied the Daughter of Pandion and won the victory in the Ajax Mad, playing the music your

'

'

namesake had written


*

for you, every single person


V17

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HARMONIDES
knew your name, Timotheus
of Thebes.

Whenever

you appear there now, everyone flocks round you like birds around an owl. This was my reason for wanting to become a pipe-player and undertaking the hard
I shouldn't consider taking up pipe-playing training. for its own sake without its attendant reputation,

if I

were to remain in obscurity. No, not even were to be an unknown Marsyas or Olympus. It's no use, they say, if musical skill is to be secret and kept hidden. But teach me this as well, how to do some good to myself as well as our art and I shall

and

if I

doubly grateful to you for the pipe-playing and, most important of all, for the glory it confers." " You must reaUse, HarTimotheus replied, is it no small that monides, thing that you're in love With praise and reputation, distinction and being but if this is what you want to known to the public be able to go into crowds in this way and to be pointed it will be a long business, and not even then will out be known to everyone. Where would you find you
feel

a theatre or stadium big enough to play to Greeks ? But I'll suggest a way of becoming
to

all

the

known

them and
:

attaining your hopes in

all

their full-

well play the pipe sometimes in theatres as This is little notice of the crowd. taite but yet the easiest short cut to a reputation. For if you choose only the best of Greece and of these just the ness

few at the top, men of undisputed genius and reliable judgment, if, I say, you show off your pipe-pieces to them and they praise you, then you can think your2if9

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8ct^at/xt

HARMONIDES
man of repute in the eyes of all the Greeks after Do you see what my plan does for you ? Suppose that those whom everyone knows and
self a
this short trial.

admires recognise that you are a piper of ability, then you can ignore the crowd they will always follow men of superior judgment. This great mass doesn't recognise quality for itself most of them are low, vulgar fellows but when acclaim is won from men of standing, they all believe it is due and reasonable, and they too will acclaim. The truth, you see, is that

tors

even when watching competitions plenty of spectaknow how to clap at the end and hiss, but judg-

ment

is the prerogative of the odd half dozen." Harmonides did not have time to carry out these

instructions.

The story goes that during his first attempt at winning the pipe competition, his competitive blowing was so keen that he blew his last breath on his pipe and died on the stage uncrowned his one Dionysiac performance was his first and his
:

last.

It seems to me that Timotheus's principle applies not only to pipe-playing and Harmonides but to all those who look for fame by making a public exhibition of themselves, aiming at the applause of the crowd. Take my own case. When I was con-

templating something similar for myself and was looking for the quickest means of acquiring a general I looked for reputation, I took Timotheus's advice. the best man in the city, the one everybody else would believe, the one who would suffice for all. You alone could reasonably be seen as the man, you the sum of all excellence, the measure, as they say, and model of accuracy in all such matters. To show you
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one late MSS.

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other

MSS.
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work and for you to give it your praise if only that could be! then indeed would I have attained the fullness of my desire, winning the votes of all through that of you alone. Whom could I prefer to you without being rightly considered out of my wits ? It could be said that I would be staking everything on one man, but in reality it is as if I had assembled the whole population in one theatre as audience for my words. For the plain fact is that by yourself you would be a better judge than the whole assembly taken singly or together. Now the kings of Sparta alone had two votes each, the rest had one but you carry the weight of ephors and council as well, and in short in the field of culture you have a block vote that outvotes all. Most important of all you always hold the casting vote that secures an acquittal. This gives me courage at the present time, for I might well be nervous my presumption is so great. There is in all truth an additional reason for my confidence : my interests are not altogether alien to you, inasmiuch as I am a native of a city that has often been a beneficiary of your good will, both in specific acts of kindness and generally in company with the rest of the nation. So if at the present time the voting is going against me in the count and the favourable votes are in a minority, like Athena give your castingvote ^ and make up the deficiency in your own person, and let the credit be yours for setting the matter

my

not enough for me that many may have expressed admiration before, that I may have some
^ Orestes was acquitted by Athena's casting vote; Aeschylus, Eumenides.

right. It is

see

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224

HARMONIDES
reputation already, that my works are praised by those who have heard them all this is empty show, as they say, a mere shadow of approval. Now the truth will appear this is the strict measure of my work. There will henceforth be no doubt, no

hesitation.

must be judged now either supreme

in

of literature, for this is your verdict, or of all men but I must utter no word of ill omen now that I am entering on such a mighty contest. Heaven grant me your approval and confirmation of my reputation! Then for the future I shall face the world with a brave heart. Any other stadium already holds less terror for the man who has won the great prizes of Olympia.
field

the

225
VOL. VI.
I

A CONVERSATION WITH HESIOD


make
Lycinus attacks Hesiod, and through him all poets similar claims, for claiming to prophesy the future.

who

DIAAOrOS nPOD H2I0A0N


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A CONVERSATION WITH HESIOD


LYCINUS

That you are the best of poets, Hesiod, and that Muses gave you this honour along with the laurel,
you yourself prove from your poetry, where all is inspired and stately, and we believe it's true. But one thing puzzles us. You claim on your own behalf that you had received that divine song from heaven so that you might sing the praises of the past and prophesy the future. Now the one task you accomplished fully enough in your account of the up to those primeval beings Chaos, Earth, Heaven, and Love again you told of virtuous women and gave advice to farmers what the Pleiades mean, the right times for ploughing, reaping, sailing, and all the rest. But your second intention, far more useful to life and more akin to divine gifts prophecy of the future I mean you did not even begin. No, you let the whole subject be forgotten and nowhere in your poetry have you followed the example of Calchas or Telemus or Polyidus or even Phineus, who did not even receive this gift from Muses but prophesied all the same and never hesitated to
birth of the gods
;

give oracles to those

who

asked.

So you must be assuredly liable to one of these three charges: either you were lying, to put it
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Movaojv

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ra

fxeXXovra npoXeyetv Syvaadar iq at fiev e^oaav wairep VTrecrxovro, crv 8c vtto <f>d6vov aTTOKpv7Tris Koi VTTO koXttov (f>vXdTTLS TTjv Sojpeav ov /LteraStSovs avrrjs rols h^ojxevois' " yeypanrai. jiev ooi Koi rocavTa ttoAAci, ovSerrco Se aurd rep plo) TTapahihdiKas ovk olSa els ov Kaipov nva aXXov rafiievofieuos ty]v p^p^ati^ avrayv. Kivo pukv yap ovhk ToA/iTycrat/x' av etTrelv, (Ls at Moucat 8vo gov
7Tap^LV VTToo')(op,vai TO fxkv e8oCTav, ^ 7]p,L(JiaS he dveKaXecravTO rrjv vttoctxcglv Xeyo) be rrjv rcbv fieXXovTCUv yvcjGiv /cat ravra irporepav avTrjv ev 3 Tip eirei vneGx^jfJievaL. Tavra ovv Trapd rivos dXXov, 'HatoSc, 7) Trap* avrov gov p,ddoL rig dv ;

TTpeiTOi

dv, cjonep ol deol hwrrjpes edcov ctcrtV, ovTOJ he /cat vpXv, rois (j>iXoLS /cat p,ad7]rais avrcjVt fjLerd TrdGrjs dXr^delas e^-qyeiGdai irepl (Lv

"

"

yap

LGre /cat XveLV

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rds d-nopias.

HEIOAOE
4

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<L

irepl

PeXriGre, pahtav diroKpiGiv d-ndvTWV, otl pbrjhev eoriv

Twv
Ta>v

eppai/jcpSrjfjievcov vtt* ep,ov Ihiov epLov, MovGcbv, /cat exp^jv G irap' eKeivwv

dXXd
rovs

XoyiGp^oifs rcov re elprjfjLevojv /cat rcov TrapaXeXeip,he vrrep p,ev wv tSta diraLreLv. eyoj fjLevcDv

Xeyoj rjTrLGrdfjLrjv /cat e^eXavveiv Kal


iroLfjLevojv

he

rod

vefxeiv
/cat

/cat

TTOip.aiveiv

^hdXXecv

epya /cat /xa^Ty/xara St/cato? dv etiqv dnoXoyeLGdaL' at deal he rds avrcov hcopeds ols T dv edeXoiGi /cat <^' ogov dv otojvrai KoXajs
e^eiv iierahihoaGiv.
2130

rcov dXXojv

ooa

A CONVERSATION WITH HESIOD


harshly, when you said that the Muses promised you power to foretell the future or they kept their promise, but out of spite you are keeping their gift
;

hidden in your pocket and not sharing it with those who ask; or you have written a great deal on the subject, but not yet given it to the outside world,
preserving its use for some or other special occasion. I wouldn't dare say this, that the Muses promised you two things and gave you one, breaking half their promise knowledge of the future I mean especially

when they promised


gods are
"

this first in
tell

but you yourself could

your work. Who us this, Hesiod ? As the


^

givers of goods,"

so

it

is

proper for

you

poets, their friends and disciples, to

expound

in

all sincerity

the knowledge you have and free us

from our perplexity.


HESIOD

an easy answer to it all. I My could say that nothing that I composed belonged to me personally, but to the Muses, and you should have
fine friend, there is

asked them for an account of what was put in and

what

left out.

But

for

what

knew

for

myself

tending, herding, driving, milking, and the other I would be practices and lore of shepherds rightly

accountable; but the goddesses give their gifts to whom they will and for as long as they think it proper.
1

Homer, Od,

viii,

326.

331

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5
8e OVK aTTOprjOO) TTpOS (T /^at TTOirjTLKTJS aiToXoylas .^ ov yap, OLjjLaL, XPV "^^P^ '^<^^ ttoltjtojv airairelv is TO XeTTTOTarov aKpi^oXoyovpLevovs Kara avXXaPrjv eKaGTrjv ivreXrj Trdvrojs ra elprjixdva, Kav et TL iv ra> rijs Tronjaecos hpoficp rrapappvev Xddr], TTiKpcjs rovro i^erdCcti', oAA* elBevau ore TToXXd rifJLLS Kal ra>v fxdrpctjv evcKa /cat rrjs rd 8c Kal ro enos aino v<j)OiVLas incfjLpdXXoiJLev'
"OfJLOJS

TToXXdKLS Acta ovra ovk otS' ott-cos" Trapehe^aro. ai) Se TO jjidyLarov ojv exofJiev dyaOcov d(f>aLp'fj Xeyo) Se ttjv iXcvdeplav Kal rrjv iv rep rifjuds

i^ovaiavy Kal rd fxev dXXa ov^ opag ooa 8e Kal aKdvdas Tr\s TTOirjuews KaXd, GKLV^aXdpLOVs TLvds KXlyeL Kal AajSa? ttj cruKo^avTia ^r]Tls. oAA* ov fjLovos ravra aif ovSe Kar ip^ov pLOvov, dXXd TToXXol Kal dXXoL rd rod opiordxvov rod XcTrrd ovtcj KopaSfj ipiov *Op.'qpov KaTaKVL^ovGi el Se /cat drra Kal Sl^l6vt. puKpd 5 pudXiGTa alria rrju dpOordTTjv XpT) opLoae ;^a)p7yCTavTa rfj aTToXoyiav aTroXoyrjaaadat,, dvdyvwdi, a> ovros, rd "Epya piov Kal rds 'H/xcpa?. 1077 ydp oaa iv rep Kal 7Tpo(f>rjrLK6j9 TTOLT^pLarL rovrcp piavriKWS dpua
7TOLLv
pLOu rds aTTO^daeis TrpoSrjXovvra rcjv re opdcos Kal Kard Kaipov irparropbevcjov Kal ra>v 7TapaXeXeipLp.eva)v rds ^rip,ias. Kal rd
77pored eaTTLcrraC

otaet? 8* iv

<f)opp,(p,

Travpot Se ae drjijaovrai,

Kal irdXiv oaa dyaOd Trepiearai rots opOajs yea)pyovcTLV


;^pT7(Tt/xajTaTT]
.

dv

r(p

j9ta>

puavrLKT)

vopLL^Oiro

aTToAoyio? y;

aarvXaylas p.

232

A CONVERSATION WITH HESIOD


Nevertheless
against you.
I shall
is

not

fail

to defend

my

poetry

It

poetry in minute

not, I think, proper to examine detail, nor to demand complete

perfection down to every syllable of what is said, nor again to criticise bitterly any unconscious oversight

that

in the flow of the composition. No, you must realise we include much for the sake of both metre and

euphony, and often the verse itself has somehow let some things, they fit so smoothly. But you are robbing us of our greatest possession I mean freedom and poetic licence. You are blind to the other beauties of poetry, and pick out a few splinters and
in

thorns and seek out handles for captious criticism.

You are not alone in this, nor am I the only victim. Many others pick the poetry of my fellow-craftsman Homer utterly to pieces, pointing out similar niggling
Well, if I have to come to and make a clear-cut defence, read my Works and Days, my man. You will see how much, like a real seer and prophet, I foretold in that poem, predicting the outcome of right and timely action and the penalties of neglect. Remember my
details, the

merest

trifles.

grips with the charge,

"

you will carry " to admire ^

it

in a basket,

and few

there'll

be

and again the blessings that follow right farming this should be thought a prophecy most useful for living.
^ Works and Days, 482

"
;

i.e.,

your harvest

will

be poor."

avDindorf; cvMSS.

233

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ATKINOS
7
ovVy J) Oavixaare 'HcrtoSe, /cat jTOifievLKov tp7]raL aoL, koL iTTaXrjdcvcLv eot/ca? t7]v ^ Tijjv MouCToDv 7TL7Tvoiav avTOS ouS' 0,770 AoyctcT^at
fJLV

TouTO

ndw

Se ov ravTrjv rjfjLelg gov /cat tojv Movaiov 7TpifX^ vopLv inel rd ye rotaura ttoXv jjLavTLKcorepoi, koI dpiara pLavrevoaivr av vpL(x)v ol yecopyoi, avrojv on voravro? fiev rov deov 7Tpl rjijuv evOaXrj earai rd Spdyfjuara, rjv Se avxp^o? ivLXd^r)
virkp

rcov iircov Swafxevos

rrjv ixavriKTjv rrapa

/cat

Su/jijaajaLv
XijjLov

at

dpovpai,

ovheixia
hiiffei

p.Tjxo-vrj

ixrj

ovxl

avrcjv /cat ort ov fjLeaovvros depovs XPV dpovv, rj ovk dv tl


inaKoXovdrjcrai rep
eiKfj

6(j)Xos

yevoiTO

ouSe

dpidv

x^^uypov

/c;^v^eWa>v rcjv GTrepp.drwv crt rov urdxvv, rj Kv6v

evpedrjoeadai rov Kapnov. ov fjirjv ouS* eKelvo jxavreias Sctrat, co? ^v fir) KoXvi/jrj^ rd arrippiara ^ /cat depdrrajv paKcXXrjv exojv CTrt^o/wJ rrj? yrjs avroLS, KaranrijoeraL rd opvca /cat Trpo/carcSetrat rr)v drraoav rov dlpovs iXnlSa. Ta ydp roiavra. rrapaiveaeis fxev /cat VTTodrJKag 8
Xiycxjv

OVK dv
/xot

ns

dpiaprdvoi, pLavriKrjg 8e TrdpiroXv


-^s"

drroheiv
ovSapirj

So/ct,

to

epyov rd dSrjXa

ovSapLOJS

(f>avpd

TO rep MtVcot rrpOL7Tiv * rrldip 6 TTols earai avrcp dTTOiTerrviyp.evog, /cat TO TotS" *A;)^atots" 7rpopLr)vvGaL rrjs 'AttoAAcovos" opyrJ9 rrjv alriav /cat Ta> Se/cctTO) Tt dXdjGeaBai rd "lAtov. ravra ydp r] pLavriKi^. enel /cat Ta roiavra el ns avrfj dvanOetr], ovk dv (l>6dvoL
^
2

Trpoytyvdjo/cetv wanep on iv rw rov pilXiros

/cat

imTTVoiav
TToXXoi

N; imvoiav TA.

r.

234

A CONVERSATION WITH HESIOD


LYCINUS
In that, my admirable Hesiod, there speaks the true shepherd you seem to be truly inspired by the Muses, when you yourself cannot even make a defence of your verse. But this is not the prophecy we expected from you and the Muses. In that sort of thing the farmers are much better prophets than you poets. They can foretell such things excellently to us: for instance, that after rain the crops will flourish, while in. the time of drought when the fields
;

are thirsty, you can do nothing to prevent famine following their thirst; that you must not plough in the middle of summer that it is no good scattering seed at random or cutting the corn when it is still green, or you will find the ear empty. Nor is there any need whatever to prophesy this, that unless you
;

cover up the seed and your man pulls soil over with a hoe, down will fly the birds and eat up all your summer's hope in advance. One could not go wrong in giving such precepts

and admonitions, but they seem to

me

very far from

prophecy. Prophecy's task is to know in advance what is unknown and altogether beyond perception ^ for example, to foretell to Minos that his son will be smothered in the jar of honey, and forewarn the Achaeans of the reason for Apollo's anger and that Troy will be captured in the tenth year. That is prophecy. If such things as you mention are to
1 Glaucus. See Graves, The, Greek Myths, vol. (Penguin Books Ltd.).

I, p.

304

KaXvtfnf}s (sic.)
*

iirufHypolr}

FN

iin<f>op'Q

Dindorf.

iariv

FA.

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THE WORKS OF LUCIAN


KOLfjik

yidvriv Xeyojv.

Trpoepo)
/cat

yap koI TrpodeaTnco


Kal
rpiTToSos

Kal

dvV

KaoraXias

Sdcjivrjs

yvfjuvo? rod Kpvovs TTcpLvocrrfj rt?, AeXcfjLKOv vovTOS TTpooin ^ ;)^aAa(^a)rTOS' rov deov, rjiTLaXos ov [XLKpos eTTtTreo-ctrat rep roLovrco, Kal, to ert ye rovrov p^avriKcorepov, on Kal depp^r] perd ravra ro cIkos iTTLyevqcrerai' Kal oAAa noXXd (hs roiavra Jjv yeXoXov dv etrj pepvfjadai, *'Q.Gr rds pcv roiavras diToXoyias Kal pavrclas 9

on

dv

d(f>s.

8e;\;<7^at

oAAa
ov

ndw

KLvo Se o Lp7]Kas v dp^fj, tcrojs TTapad^tov, (Ls ovSev rj^eiada rdjv Xeyopivojv, ns epTTvoia Saipovvos ivenoUt, aoi rd /xcrpa,

ovSe
.

iKeivrj

^i^aios ovaa'
vnecrxy} pevojv,

ov ydp dv rd

pkv

cTrereAet

rcjv

rd

8*

dreXij

dTTeXipLTTavev

236

A CONVERSATION WITH HESIOD


be ascribed to it, I too must be called a prophet without a moment's delay. Even without Castalia and the laurel and the Delphic tripod, I will foretell and predict that if a man walks about naked in time of frost, with rain and hail falling as well, he will catch a chill and not a slight one, and, what is even more prophetic, a fever will in all probability follow; and so on it would be ridiculous to mention all that I

could foretell.

But Then away with such pleas and prophecies that point you made at the beginning, perhaps that can be admitted, that you knew nothing of what you said ; it was some divine inspiration filled you with your verses, and not so very reliable at that, or it would not have kept part of what it promised and left the rest unfulfilled.
!

237

THE SCYTHIAN OR THE CONSUL


Lucian, now in Macedonia, appeals to a father and son for their patronage and, as in Harmonides, tells a traditional story For another story of Anacharsis the to point the flattery. Scythian see his Anacharsis {Loeb, vol. IV, pp. 1 fif.).

2KYH2:
Ov
^

H nP05EN02

TTpCJTOS *AvdxapGLS a(f)LKTO K HiKvOtaS ^Ad-qva^c TraiSelas CTn^u/xta t^s" 'EAAT^yt/c^s", dAAd

Kal To^aptg irpo avrov, ao<f>6s fJiev /cat <f)LX6KaXos dvrjp Kal iTTLrrjheviJLdrojv <j)i\op,ad'ri rwv dpioriov, OLKoi 8c ov rod ^aaiXclov yivovs wv ov^k rwv dX\d TiKvOojv rcjv TToXkcjv Kal 7TLXo(f>optKajv,
hrjfioTLKcoy,
Ka\oviJLvot.y

oloi

elcn

rtap

avTols

ol

oKraTToSe?

vat

Kal

Tovro Be iari, 8vo pocbv hcGTTorrjv eldp,d^i)s pLids. ovros 6 To^apis ovhe

Tt OTTLoro} ? lliKvdas, oAA* *AdijvrjOLV diridavev, koI /xct' ov ttoXv Kal rjpoj? cSo^ev Kal evrefivovoLv avrco ScVo* *larpcp ol ^AdrjvacoL'
dTrfjXdev

TOvro yap rovvofia


TJpcoag

rjpajg yevofievog Tr}v S* alriav ttJ? iircjDwpiias Kal dvd^

ineKTqaaro

orov eg rovg

Kal rcov *AorKXrj7TLaSdjv^ els KarcXeyr] eSo^cv, ov x^tpoi' 1(70)9 SLrjynaacTdaL, cos jjcdd-qre ov TtKvdaLg fjLovov 7n)(a)pLov ov dTradavarl^eiv Kal 7Tfi7Tiv napd rov XdpxtX^LV, dXXd Kal *Adr)vaLOis i^etvav deoTTOLelv tovs TiKvOas ttI rijs 'EAAaSo?.

Kara tov
^

Xoifiov rov fjueyav eSo^ev

'q

yvvri^

Apeoirayirov
*

dvSpoSj
:

iTnurdvra
MSS.

Ap^t-TeXovs ol rov

vp&Tos edd.

irporrov

of rank

Literally "those who wear the wtAoy," or felt cap, a among the Scythians.

mark

240

THE SCYTHIAN OR THE CONSUL


Anacharsis was not the first to come from Scythia Athens out of a longing for Greek culture. Before him there was Toxaris, a wise man, who loved beauty and was eager in pursuit of the best styles of living. At home he was not a member of the royal family or of the aristocracy ^ he belonged to the general run
to
in Scythia, people called eight feet meaning the owner of two oxen and a cart. This Toxaris never went back to Scythia, but died in Athens, where not long after his death he came to be considered a hero, and the Athenians sacrifice to him " " as The Foreign Physician this was the name him when they gave they made him a hero. The reason for this designation, and the events which brought about his enrolment among the heroes, and his reputation as one of the sons of Asclepius are perhaps worth relating. Then you may see that to confer ^ immortality on someone and send him to Zamolxis is a custom not of the it is also Scythians only possible for Athenians to deify Scythians in Greece. At the time of the great plague ^ the wife of Archetiles the Areopagite dreamed that the Scythian

of the

"

"

The Thracian Getae regarded Zamolxis (or Zalmoxis) as the believed in the immortality of the soul and only true god they " looked on death as going to Zamolxis.*' See Herodotus iv, 94, and Harmon's note, vol. V, pp. 430 f.
;

430-429

B.C.

Hi

THE WORKS OF LUCIAN


TiKvdrjv KeXevaai elirelv ^AdrjvaioLS on Travaovrai, rcb XoLficp e-)(6^VOi, riv rovs orevojTTOVs olvco

TToAAy

paivcxiUL.

Tovro

crux^oLKig

yap

rjjjLeXrjcrav

ol

'AdrjvaloL

aKovaavres eVauae
etre

yevofievov

ov

[xrjKerL

Xoifjuwrreuv

aurou?,

drfiovs

rtvas

TTOvripovs 6 olvos o^ioas rfj oSfjufj, etre oAAo ttXcov lS(l)9 6 TJpojs 6 To^apLs, are larpiKos coVy

crvvePovXevaev. 6 8' ovv iikjOos Trjs Idaews tl Kal vvv dirohihorai avrcp XevKos lttttos KaraOvofievos iirl rep puvrip^ariy oOev eSet^cv rj Aetp^aLvdrrj

TTpoaeXdovra avrov evreiXaadai eKelva rd irepl rod olvov Kal cvpedrj kclOl 6 Tdfapt? redapbp^evos rfj T 7nypa(f)fj yvcocrdels, et /cat /xt^ Tracra ert ec^atVero, Kal jjuaXiGra, on inl rfj GrrjXr] ^KvOrjg dvrjp iyKCKoXairro, rfj Xaud puev ro^ov ex^ov vrrapilvov , 8e ^LpXiOV, co? iSoKei. en Kal vvu lSols rfj Sefta dv avrov virep rfp^iav Kal ro ro^ov oXov Kal ro PipXlov rd Se dvcj rrjg crri^Xrjs Kal ro rrpooojiTOV 6 XP^^^^ V^V .Xvp/rivar6 rrov eonv 8e ov ttoXv

dno rov AlttvXov,

iv

dpiarepa

els

'A/caSi^jLttav

diTLOvraiv, ov pueya ro ;^a)/xa Kal r) orrjXr] ;^a/xateareirrai ye det, Kai ^aoL irvperaivovrds ttXt^u aXX*

nvas
At'
ttoXlv.

rjbrj

ireTravaQai
aTTLarov,

dir^

avrov,
TTore

Kal

/xd

rov
ty]v

ovSev

os

oXrjv

Idoaro

jjiev

ovirep eveKa ep.vijod'iqv avrov, e^y] 6 To^apis, 6 *Avdxo,paLs Se dpn KaraTreTrXevKOJS din^ei k UeLpaLcos, ola Srj ^evos Kal

'AAAd ydp

en

PdpPapos

ov jjuerptajs rerapayp.evos ert r7]v iravra dyvocjv, ijjo^oheris irpos rd iroXXd, yva)p.r)V, Kal ydp crvvUi ovK excov 6 p^pT^cratTO eavrcp-

242

THE SCYTHIAN OR THE CONSUL


Toxaris stood by her side and bade her tell the Athenians that they would be released from the grip of the plague if they sprinkled their alleyways The Athenians took notice of liberally with wine. what she told them and carried out frequent sprinklings with the result that the plague stopped the smell of the wine may have dispersed some noxious vapours, or the hero Toxaris, being a medical man, may have had some other special knowledge when he gave his advice. In any case to this day payment for his cure is still offered to him a white horse,

on his tomb. Dimaenete said he came from there when he gave her the instructions about the wine, and Toxaris was found buried there, being recognised by the inscription, though it was no
sacrificed

longer all visible, and more especially by a carving of a Scythian on the pillar; in the figure's left hand was a strung bow, in his right what looked like a book; even now you may still see more than half of it, including all the bow and the book; the upper half of the pillar including the face has been worn away in the course of time it is situated not far from the Dipylon, on the left as you go towards the Academy ; the mound is quite small and the pillar lies on the ground; nevertheless it is always garlanded and the story is that the hero has cured several sufferers from fevers this is not surprising indeed since he once cured the whole city. reason for mentioning the story was this: Toxaris was still alive when Anacharsis, who had recently put in at Piraeus, went up to Athens. stranger and a foreigner he experienced considerable confusion of mind, for everything was strange and there were the many sounds which frightened him;
;

My

24S

THE WORKS OF LUCIAN


KarayeXcLfievos vtto twv opojvTcov eirl rfj GKeufj, kol Kal ojxoyXiooaov ovhiva evpioKev, oAcu? Kal iSeSoKro ISovra avrco oSov, jU.eT/xeAcv tJStj ttjs jjLovov ras" ^Adijvas ctti TToha evdv^ ottloo} ')(^ujpelv Kal ttXolo) imPavra TrXetv avBts 7rl BocrTTopou, odev ov TToXXrj ejjLcXXev avrco oBos Uodai ot/caSc
s YtKvdas.

ovTCos exovTL ro) *Ara;(a/)(7tSt evrvyxo.-

VL haipLCJV TLs

ayaBos

cos"

aXiqOcjs 6
fjuev

To^apis

'^^t]

iv TCp KcpajjiCLKCp. avTov 7TO7TdoaT0

Kal to

TTarpLcorLS

rrpchrov rj gtoXtj ouCTa, elra fjuevroL

Kal avrov yvcoaeaOaL rov *AvdxcipOLV are yivovs rov hoKipLCjrdrov ovra /cat v rots TTpojTOis YiKvdiov. 6 'Am;^a/5orts' hk iroQev av Kivov eyvoj ofxoedvfj ovra, 'ElAAi^vtcrTt iaraXfxe^ TO yUiOV, d^COGTOV, VOV, iv XP^ KKapflV0V doiSrjpov, TjSi-] arojfjivXov, avrcov rcbv ^Kttikcov ovtoj pL^reTreTToi-qro vtto eva Tojv avroxdouojv ;

ov

-xP-XeTTCos

ejjLeXXe

rov xpo^o^*AAAa Tofapt? ^Kvdiarl TTpoaenroiv avrov, Ov av, (l>r], ^Avdxctpcri'^ cov rvyxdveis 6 AavKerov ; * otl Kal Avdxo.pcrt'^ , iSdKpvGcv V(f>* TjSovrjg 6 Kal rovrov elSora ooris oiJLocfxjovov vpriKL rivd, ^v iv HKvdaiSy Kal rjpero, 2v 8e irodev otada
rjjjbds,

iKeWev elpLL nap* C(/>i7, ov rcbv i7TL<f>avcov, ware vpxov, To^apis rovvofjua, Kal iyvwo 6 ai av ool Kar avro. Moiv, ecjif], ov 6 To^apLs el 7Tpl ov iych rjKovaa co? ns To^apus ^EAAaSos" dnoXiTTchv Kal yvvauKa iv epcxtri rrjs TtKvdla Kal TTaihia veoyvd olxoiro is ^Adrivas Kal
tS

^V ;

Kal

auros",

vvv hiarpi^oL KeWi nixc/jixevog vtto rcov dpiarcov ; 'Eycu, (^17, iKelvos et/xt, t ris Kapuov Xoyos ert Ovkovv, "^ S* os 6 *AvdxapOLg, jxadrjrrjv Trap* vyilv.

244

THE SCYTHIAN OR THE CONSUL


he did not know what to do with himself; he saw that who saw him laughed at his dress he met no one who spoke his language, and altogether he was already sorry he had made the trip. He decided just to see Athens and then immediately to retrace his steps and embark for the voyage back to the Bosporus, from where his journey home to Scythia would be quite short. While Anacharsis was in this frame of mind a good angel appeared to him when he was already in the Ceramicus, in fact it was Toxaris. Toxaris had been first attracted by the familiar cut of his Scythian dress and then was bound to recognise Anacharsis himself quite easily as he was of very noble stock and one of the leading men of Scythia. But Anacharsis had no means of recognising Toxaris as a fellow-countryman, with his Greek garb, his shaven
people
;

chin, his lack of belt or sword, his fluency of speech one of the real Attic aborigines ; so much had time

changed him.

Toxaris addressed him in Scythian. Are you not " he perchance Anacharsis the son of Daucetas } asked. Anacharsis wept for joy at having found one

"

who spoke his tongue and knew who he was back home in Scythia. " How is it that you know me, my friend?" he asked. "I myself am from your country. My name is Toxaris; no aristocrat, so
Surely you're not the you wouldn't recognise it." same Toxaris as the one who, as I heard, out of love for Greece left his wife and young children in Scythia and went to Athens and now spends his life there " "I am that man," honoured by the men of rank ? " he said, if there is still some word of me at home." " " Well," said Anacharsis, you may know that I am * So E v X' K, vneivprjfievov T: vrre^vpi^fievov (om. iv X' k.) N.
:

"

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a disciple and a convert to your longing to see Greece. This was why I left home and came on this journey. My adventures among the peoples on the way have been past telling, and if I had not met you I should have gone back again to my ship before sunset as I had decided I have been in such a state of confusion, with everything so strange and novel to my Now by our native gods Acinaces ^ and eyes. Zamolxis I ask you, Toxaris, to take me with you and be my guide and show me the best of what there is in Athens and then in the rest of Greece their finest laws, their greatest men, their customs, assemIt was to blies, their way of life, their constitution. see all this that you, and I after you, made our long journey. Do not let me go back without seeing it
;

all."

Your words," said Toxaris, betray little affection if you mean to come to the very doors and then go back again. Cheer up now! You won't go away, in the way you suggest, and the city will not she has more charms than that readily let you go
:

"

"

to captivate the stranger. She will grip your heart so tightly that you will not remember wife or children, if you have any, any more. Now I'll show you the quickest way of seeing the whole city of Athens and more all Greece and the glories of the Greek nation. There is a certain wise man in Athens. He is Athenian by birth but has travelled abroad widely to Asia and

Egypt and has mixed with the cream of mankind. But for all that he is not one of the rich actually he
;

is

very humble fashion.

dressed in Nevertheless he is held in great honour for his wisdom and other qualities. As ^ The Persian sword.
quite poor.
is

You'll see he

an old

man

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a result they employ

him to frame laws for the govern-

are resolved to live in accordance with his ordinances. Make him your friend, get to know what sort of man he is, and you will find all Greece in him, and know already the sum of her I could do you no greater favour than to glories. introduce you to him." " Let us not delay then, Toxaris," said Anacharsis, " take me with you to him, though I'm afraid of one thing, that he may be difficult to approach and not consider your representations on my behalf as of any

ment of the city and

Hush now," replied Toxaris, I importance." fancy I shall be showing him a great kindness by giving him the chance to show good-mil to a stranger. You just follow on. You'll see his reverence for Zeus the God of Strangers as well as his general goodness and kindness. Well, that's a piece of luck Here he is coming in our direction, that fellow deep in thought, the one muttering to himself." He " addressed Solon at once "I've come," he said, with the greatest of gifts for you, a stranger in need of your He is one of our Scythian nobility, but friendship. that hasn't prevented him from leaving all his possessions there to visit you men of Greece and to see the fairest things that Greece can offer. I've discovered a short way of enabling him to see everything easily in person and to become known to the cream of your nation this was to bring him to you. If I know Solon, you'll do this and look after him and make him a true son of Greece. Anacharsis, as I told you just now, having seen Solon you have seen everything; here is Athens, here is Greece; you're no longer a stranger, everybody knows you, everybody
!

"

"

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his

Such is the quahty of this old man. In company you will forget everything you left in Scythia. Here is the reward of your voyaging abroad, the end of your passionate longing. Here for you is
loves you.

the measure of Greece, here a specimen of Attic philosophy. Just realise how blessed you are to meet Solon, and to meet him as a friend." It would be a long business to tell how Solon was pleased by the gift, what he said, and how they kept company afterwards, Solon, the educator, instilling the noblest lessons, making Anacharsis friends with everyone, introducing him to the noblest Greeks, and looking after him in every way, so that his time in

Greece might pass most pleasantly, and Anacharsis, in admiration of Solon's wisdom, unwilling to leave So just as Toxaris had his side for a moment.
promised him, from one person, Solon, he quickly learnt everything, became known to everyone, and won respect through him. For Solon's praise carried no small weight, and in this too men obeyed him as a lawgiver, and they made friends with those to whom he showed respect, accepting them as men of worth. In the end, if we are to believe Theoxenus, who tells this story as well about him, Anacharsis alone of barbarians was even initiated into the mysteries after being made an Athenian citizen nor I fancy would he have returned to Scythia, had not Solon died. Would you like me to complete my story so that it should not roam about in a headless condition ? It's high time to find out what Anacharsis and Toxaris from Scythia are still doing here at this time in Macedon bringing old Solon with them from Athens.
;

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own situation is like that of Anacharsis and not resent my likening myself to a man of do please no one regal stature, for he too was a barbarian, and
Well, my
could say that
It isn't

we

Syrians are inferior to Scythians.

on grounds of royalty that I compare my situation with his, but rather because we are both barbarians. For when I first came to live in your as soon as I saw its size, city, I was utterly terrified its beauty, its high population, its power and general splendour. For a long time I was struck with wonder at these things and could not take in the spectacle ^ just as when the young man from the islands came How could I help feeling to the house of Menelaus. like this when I saw the city at such a peak of

excellence and, as the poet says,


"

Blossoming with
flourisheth."

all

good things whereby a

city

In this plight then I was already considering what I had some time since I should take next. decided to show you something of my oratory, for who else would deserve it if I had passed by such a To tell the truth, I enquired who city in silence? were the leading citizens and who might be approachsteps

ed and enlisted as patrons and general supporters. My case was better than that of Anacharsis he had but one patron, Toxaris, and that one a barbarian, while I have many, and what is more they have all told me the same thing in about the same words: " There are many good and knowledgeable persons in our city, friend nowhere else will you find such but we have two men of outstanding merit, quality

Telemachus

Homer, OdAy^

71.

rats add. Jacobitz.

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254

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pre-eminent in birth and reputation, and in culture and oratorical power comparable to the Ten Attic Orators. They enjoy the devoted respect of the people, and their word is law. They wish whatever Their goodness, their kindness is best for the city.

towards strangers, their freedom from censure, eminent though they be, their kindly courtesy, their gentleness and ease of access, these qualities you yourself will tell to others when you have presently made trial of them.

To excite your wonder still more, they belong to one and the same household. They are in fact father and son. The father you may imagine to be a Solon, a Pericles, or an Aristides, while the son will win your heart as soon as you see him, so tall is he and handsome with his manly grace and let him but speak and he will leave you with your ears enchained, such charm is there in the young man's tongue. Whenever he comes forward to speak in
;

"

public the entire city listen to him open-mouthed it is the story of the Athenians and the son of Clinias

over again with this difference the Athenians quite soon repented of their affection for Alcibiades, while here there is not only love for the young man but a ready reverence already and in short the well-being and happiness of our state are summed up in this one man. If he and his father were to take you in and make you their friend, then the whole city is yours. Let them but lift a finger and any doubts you may have will be no more." This by Zeus (if I must
:

255

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256

THE SCYTHIAN OR THE CONSUL


my experience but a fraction of Then sit no more and brook no more ^ delay," as the Ceian says. No, I must pull every and do say everything to make such men my rope, friends if that is once attained, then ahead there is nothing but calm weather, a fair wind, a sea barely rippling, and a harbour near at hand.
swear to
already the truth.
is it) it is clear

what

all

told

me, and by

"

that they told

me

Bacchylides.

Edmonds, Lyra Qraeca,

iii,

p. 123.

257
VOL. VI.

HERMOTIMUS OR CONCERNING THE SECTS


Lucian's longest work and his most sustained attack on the philosophical schools. Hermotimus, a keen pupil of the Stoic school, is put through the mill of a Socratic inquisition on the subject of his motives and expectations in attending the school. The Sceptic wins and Hermotimus resolves to put aside his philosophical pretensions and enjoy the best way of living that of the ordinary man.

Although on the whole an interesting presentation of the Sceptic's skill at undermining the structure of philosophical idealism, the flow of the dialogue is marred for the modem reader by passages where the obvious is laboured at inordinate
length.
his

For Lucian's respect for the life of the ordinary Menippus {Loeb, vol. IV, pp. 71 fiF.).

man see also

EPMOTIM05: H HEPI AIPEIEON


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EPMOTIMOL
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Hippocrates.

260

HERMOTIMUS OR CONCERNING THE SECTS


LYCINUS

To judge from your book, Hermotimus, and the speed of your walk, you seem to be hurrying to your teacher. You were certainly thinking something over as you went along; you were twitching your
and muttering quietly, waving your hand this way and that as though you were arranging a speech to yourself, composing one of your crooked problems or thinking out some sophistical question even when you are walking along you must not take it easy, but be always busy at some serious matter which is likely
lips
;

to help your studies.

HERMOTIMUS
Yes, certainly, that is about it, Lycinus; I was going over yesterday's lecture and what he said to We us, running through the points in my mind. must, I think, never lose an opportunity, for we know " the truth of what the Coan Doctor ^ said: Life is He was speaking of medishort, but Art is long." cine of course, which is easier to learn philosophy is unattainable even over a long period, unless you are very much awake all the time and keep a stem eye on her. The venture is for no mere trifle whether to perish miserably in the vulgar rabble of
;

261

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EPMOTIMOE
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262

ert, c5

AvKue.

HERMOTIMUS
the

common herd

or to find happiness through philo-

sophy.

LYCINUS

a very wonderful prize, Hermotimus, and I fancy you are near winning it, to judge by the time you spend on your philosophical studies and also the considerable energy you seem to have devoted for so

That

is

long.

If I remember, it must be nigh on twenty years that I have seen you doing nothing but going to the teachers, and usually bent over a book and writing notes on the lectures, always pale and wasted with studying. I suppose even your dreams give you no rest, you are so wrapped up in it. So, when I consider this, I feel that you will not be long in reaching happiness, unless it has been your com-

panion for years and

we have missed

seeing

it.

HERMOTIMUS
can that be, Lycinus? I am just beginning to get a glimpse of my way there. Virtue, says Hesiod,^ lives far away, and the path to her is long and steep and rough, with plenty of sweat for travellers.
LYCINUS

How

Have you not sweated and Hermotimus ?


HERMOTIMUS
No,
I tell
if I

travelled

enough,

you.

couldn't be other than perfectly


top.

happy
still

were at the

At

this

moment

am

beginning, Lycinus. ^ Hesiod, Works and Days, 289.


^

av add. Belinus.

263

THE WORKS OF LUCIAN


ATKINOE
3

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EPMOTIMOE
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:

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avco

MSS.

264

HERMOTIMUS
LYCINUS

same Hesiod says that the beginning half-way there,^ so that we should not wrong you we said that you were half-way up.
this

But

is

if

HERMOTIMUS
No, not even that yet. achievement.

That would be a great

LYCINUS

Well, where on the road

may we

put you

HERMOTIMUS
in the foothills, Lycinus, though lately struggling on. It is slippery and rough and needs a hand to help.
Still

down

LYCINUS

Your teacher can do that he can let down his own teaching from the top like Zeus's golden rope in Homer,2 and clearly pull and lift you up to himself and Virtue. He made the climb long ago.
:

HERMOTIMUS

As far as he just what happens, Lycinus. is concerned I should have been pulled up long ago and been in their company. But my share still falls
That
is

short.

LYCINUS
cheerful. Look to the end of the journey and the happiness up there, especially
^

Be brave now and keep

Hesiod, Works and Days, 40.

Homer,

II. viii, 19.

265

THE WORKS OF LUCIAN


ixaXtara Klvov ^v^TTpodvixovixevov. TrXrjv Tiva aoi iXnlSa VTTO(f)aivi cos ^rj Trdre ct? vecora etKal^eu 7rt to aKpov dvapr]GOfJiva) ;

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oAAa

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cj,
;

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ra

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ra aAAa

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EPMOTIMOS
'OAtyov
(f)ri?,

a)

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ATKINOE
'AAA* is
TTjv i^rjs oAu/XTrtaSa;

EPMOTIMOE
Kat Tovro oXlyov
cdSaifiovlas kttjglv.
cos

npos dperrjs doK-qaiv Kal

ATKINOE

Mcra Svo

jxev Srj oXvfJiTndhas irdvrcos

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266

HERMOTIMUS
But when does he since he is as keen as you are. suggest you may hope to come up ? Did he suggest next year to reach the top after the other Mysteries, say, or the Panathenaea ?

HERMOTIMUS

Too

soon, Lycinus.

LYCINUS

Next Olympiad, then ?


HERMOTIMUS

Too soon again

for a training in virtue

and the

winning of happiness.
LYCINUS

After two Olympiads, surely ? Or shall we accuse you of excessive sloth, if you cannot succeed in all that time? You could easily make three journeys from Gibraltar to India and back in that time, even if you did not go straight without breaking your journey, but made excursions occasionally to visit the nations on the way. But this summit where your Virtue lives how much higher and smoother are we to put it than Aornos which Alexander stormed in a

few days

HERMOTIMUS
it

Nothing like, Lycinus, Your comparison is wrong cannot be won or captured in a short time, even if innumerable Alexanders attack it. Many would climb it, if it could. As it is, a fair number make a very strong beginning and travel part of the way,
;

^aaorepav

F^

Biaaorepav F^N.

267

THE WORKS OF LUCIAN

ppa)fivojs Kai 7rpoGpxovTaL cttl iroaoVy ot /liV ctti TTaw oXiyoVy ol 8e ctti ttXIov' TTLhav 8e Kara
fjLearjv rrjv

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hvo-)(pioLV

ATKINOE
IlaTrat,
c5

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'

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EPMOTIMOi:
Et yap yevoiTO Kai dveXBelVj rrdp,7roXv to Xolttov,
o)

AvKive.

oAAa

ATKINOE
G
"O/xcos"

ovK

ecfyqada

ottouov,

ws XP^^V

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Xa^elv.

EPMOTIMOE
yap olBa, a) Avklv, rdKpt^eg. eLKd^oj p,VTOL ov TrXeLOJ Tojv eiKOGLv ircov eo^odai, p^eO* a TTavTCOS ttov e-nl Tcp aKpcp a6p,eda.
268

Ou8*

avTOS

HERMOTIMUS
but when they get halfof difficulties and snags, they lose heart and turn back, gasping for breath and dripping with sweat ; the hardships are too much for them. But all who endure to the end arrive at the top, and from then on are happy having a wonderful time for the rest of their life, from their heights seeing the rest of mankind as ants.

some very

little,

some more

way and meet plenty

LYCINUS

Goodness, Hermotimus! How small you make Utter groundlings crawlus, not as big as pygmies
!

ing over the earth's surface. It's not surprising and we, the your mind is already away up above whole trashy lot of us ground-crawlers, will pray to you along with the gods, when you get above the clouds and reach the heights to which you have been hastening for so long.
;

HERMOTIMUS
get up there, Lycinus! great deal remains to be done.
LYCINUS

Oh, may

I really

But a

But you have not said how long, to give


HERMOTIMUS
I don't

it

a date.

know myself

exactly, Lycinus.

Not more
I

than twenty years at a guess. surely be on the top.


^

After that

shall

XaixanTTLS
Tra^eiv

TtavraTTaai

X/^<^^

TravrdTraaiv

X/*"^

ndvra

other

MSS.

269

THE WORKS OF LUCIAN


ATKINOS
'Hpa/cAct?,
TToXif Acyets".

EPM0TIM02
Kat yap
TovTO
irojv
irepl /xcyoAcov, <L

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ATKINOS
ixkv

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ATKINOE
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t8eVat;

ou yap

avros

dveXijXvdas

270

HEKMOTIMUS
LYCINUS

Good Heavens

As long

as that

HERMOTIMUS
Yes, Lycinus
;

my

struggles are for great prizes.

LYCINUS

Perhaps so. But those twenty years has your teacher promised you that length of life ? If he has he must be more than a wise man a prophet, or an oracle-monger, or an expert in Chaldean lore, as

they say that they know this For, if it is not certain that you will Virtue, it is quite unreasonable to trouble and wear yourself out night
well

sort of thing. live to reach

take

all

this

and day, not

knowing whether Fate as you near the top will come and pull you down by the foot with your hopes unfulfilled.

HERMOTIMUS

Away with you! That, Lycinus, is blasphemy. May I live to enjoy happiness through wisdom for just one day! LYCINUS
Would
one day
?

that repay you for

all

your labours

just

For

me

HERMOTIMUS even a moment is enough.


LYCINUS

can you know that up there there is a happiness and the like worth enduring everything to attain ? You yourself have not yet been up there,
I

How

suppose

271

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EPMOTIMOL
rep Trdvu olSev are

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rij

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:

272

HERMOTIMUS
HERMOTIMUS
believe what my teacher says. right at the top and knows very well.
I

He

is

already

LYCINUS

Heaven's name did he say about condiWhat did he say this happiness there tions there ? was ? Some sort of riches, I suppose, and glory, and

What

in

pleasures

beyond compare

HERMOTIMUS
Hush, friend
life
!

These have nothing to do with the


LYCINUS

in Virtue.

If not these then,

what does he say are the good


their training will

things which those

who complete
HERMOTIMUS

get?

Wisdom, courage, beauty itself, justice itself, the sure certainty of knowing everything as it really is. Riches and glories and pleasures and bodily things are all stripped off the climber and left down below before he makes his ascent. Think of the story of Heracles when he was burned and deified on Mount Oeta he threw off the mortal part of him that came from his mother and flew up to heaven, taking the pure and unpolluted divine part with him, the part that the fire had separated off. So philosophy like a
:

fire strips

our climbers of
;

all

these things that the


;

rest of

mankind wrongly admires they climb to the top and are happy they never even remember
273

THE WORKS OF LUCIAN


TjhovaJv dAA* ovSe ju-/xn7/xeVot rcov olofjievojv ravra etvai.

en, KarayeXcovrcs

ATKINOL
8
N17 Tov 'Hpa/cAca, a> 'Ep/xdrt/xc, rov ev Otrrj avSpeXa /cat euSat/xova Aeyet? Trcpt avrojv. ttXtjv oAAa ToSc /xot L7r, Kal Karipxovrai irore k rijs

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aKpas

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EPMOTIMOL

Ov

fJLOVOV

TOVTO,

CO

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ovhk dXcjs Trddos tl tolovtov nddoL dv.

ATKINOE

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elvat,
^

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ye

fxe

Set jJLrjSkv oKv-qoavra ctVctv

ciAA'

v<j)r]fiLV

XPV

olfxai

pLTjSe

oacov

^rd^LV

to, vtto

tojv GO<f>a)v yiyvofxeva.

EPMOTIMOE
MrjSafxcjs, oAA*
t7rc

o tl Kal Xiyeis.

ATKINOL
"Opay
60

iraZp, (hg eyojye

Kal irdw okvo).

EPMOTIMOS
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:

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hovXevrj other

MSS.
274

HERMOTIMUS
wealth and glory and pleasures any more, and they laugh at those who believe them to be real.
LYCINUS

By Heracles on Oeta, Hermotimus, you tell a brave and happy tale about them But tell me this do they ever come down from their hill-top (if that is their wish), to make use of what they have left down here below? Or must they stay there once
!

they are up and live in Virtue's company, laughing at wealth and glory and pleasures ?

HERMOTIMUS

That
lusts
;

is

not

all,

Lycinus.

A man who is

perfected

in Virtue

can never be a slave to anger or fear or he will not know grief and in short he will not

experience feelings of this sort any longer.


LYCINUS
Well, if I must speak the truth without fear but I had better keep quiet, I suppose ; it would not be pious to question what wise men do.

HERMOTIMUS

Not

at

all.

Please say what you mean.

LYCINUS

Look, friend, how afraid

am

HERMOTIMUS
Don't be
to
afraid,

me

good Lycinus.
2
tJ

You

are speaking

alone.

elvai

N.

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276

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HERMOTIMUS
LYCINUS
followed and believed most of what you Well, said, Hermotimus, that they become wise and brave and just and so on in a way your description held me in a sort of spell. But when you said they despised riches and glory and pleasures and were not angry or grieved, there (we are alone) I came to a stop. I remembered something I saw a certain person doing the other day shall I name him ? Or is it enough to leave him anonymous ?
I
;

HERMOTIMUS

Not

at

all.

Please

tell

me who

he was.

LYCINUS

This very teacher of yours respect and is now quite old.

in general

he deserves

HERMOTIMUS

What was he
You know

doing

LYCINUS

the stranger from Heraclea who has studied philosophy under him a long time, the one M ith yellow hair, a quarrelsome fellow ?

HERMOTIMUS
I

know the man you mean.


LYCINUS

He's called Dion.

That is the man. Well it seems he didn't pay his fee on time, and the other day your teacher in a temper pulled the man's cloak round his neck and
!

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278

HERMOTIMUS
shouted and dragged him off to the magistrate. If some friends of the young fellow had not come between them and pulled him from his grasp, the old man would certainly have taken hold of him and bitten his nose off, he was so angry.

HERMOTIMUS

That fellow has always been a senseless rogue when it comes to paying his debts, Lycinus. My
master has never yet treated any of the others to whom he lends money like that and there are many of them. But they pay the interest on time.
LYCINUS

And
it

if

they don't,

already purified by philosophy and no longer needs what he has left

matter,

when he
?

my
is

dear Hermotimus

Does

now

behind on Oeta

HERMOTIMUS
this fuss?

for himself that he has made No, he has young children and he is concerned lest they spend their lives in want.

Do you

think

it is

LYCINUS

ought, Hermotimus, to lead them too up the path to Virtue, so that they can despise wealth and be happy with him.

He

HERMOTIMUS
haven't time, Lycinus, to talk with you about I'm in a hurry to hear his lecture, or I may be this left completely behind before I know it.
I
;

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ATKINOS
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to

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d<f>Lr]fjLl

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EPMOTIMOi:

ATKINOE
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280

HERMOTIMUS
LYCINUS

today.

Cheer up, old man A truce has been proclaimed I can save you what still remains of your
!

journey.

HERMOTIMUS

What do you mean ?


LYCINUS
find him now, if we can believe the board was hanging on the gate with No Philosophy Lecture Today " on it in large letters. They said that he had dinner yesterday at the house of the great Eucrates, who was throwing

That you won't


;

notice "

little

a party for his daughter's birthday. He talked a lot of philosophy during the party and grew cross with Euthydemus the Peripatetic, disputing their usual

arguments against the Stoics. The party, they say, stretched out till midnight and the din brought on a wretched headache and made him sweat a good deal. At the same time he had drunk too much, I fancy, in the general toasting and had dined too well for his age so when he got back home, it was said, he was very sick. He waited only to count carefully and lock up the pieces of meat he had given to the servant who had stood behind him at table, and has been sleeping ever since, having given orders to let no one in. I heard his servant Midas telling this to some of his pupils who were themselves just
;

coining away, quite a crowd.


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ovres.

282

HERMOTIMUS
HERMOTIMUS
the argument, Lycinus, my teacher or Euthydemus? Did Midas say anything to this
effect
?

Who won

LYCINUS

seems, they were level, but in the end was on the side of you Stoics, and the old man victory was well in front. At any rate they say that Euthydemus didn't get away unscathed: he was badly wounded in the head. You see he was pretentious and argumentative and wouldn't be convinced and didn't show himself ready to take criticism, so your excellent teacher hit him with a cup as big as Nestor's ^ which he had in his hand (he was lying quite near him), and so he won.
first, it

At

HERMOTIMUS
Well done!
won't give way
That's just how to treat those to their betters
!

who

LYCINUS

Very reasonable, Hermotimus. What possessed Euthydemus to irritate an old man so placid and a master of his temper, who had such a heavy cup in his hand ? But now we have time to spare why don't you tell a friend how you first took up philosophy ?
I

myself,

if it is still possible,

could then begin there

and join you all on the road. You are and of course won't shut me out.
1

my
636.

friends

For Nestor's cup,

see

Homer,

II. xi,

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EPMOTIMOE
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ATKINOS
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MSS.
284

HERMOTIMUS
HERMOTIMUS
wish you would, Lycinus You will soon see how much better you will be than the rest of mankind. Children you will think them all, mere children compared with you with your intellect so superior.
I
!

LYCINUS

Good enough,
you are now.

if after

twenty years

could be as

HERMOTIMUS
I

Don't worry. I myself was about your age when began to study philosophy, about forty as old as

you

are

now

imagine.
LYCINUS

Exactly that,

Hermotimus.
:

too along the same path First of all tell me this

take and lead me that would be only

So

right.

do you allow learners to


is

argue if they disagree with something, or not allowed to the young ?

this

HERMOTIMUS
it is not allowed at all. But you, if you like, ask questions and make criticisms as we go along. You will learn more easily that way.

No,

may

Good, Hermotimus by Hermes who gives you your name. Now tell me, is there one way only to philosophy, the one you Stoics follow ? I have heard
there are

LYCINUS

many

other schools as well.

Is that right

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MctAa TToAAot UepLTTarrjTLKol Kal 'ETrt/coupctot Kal ol rov YlXdrcDva 7nypa(f)6fJivoi, Kal av ^loylvovs oAAot rivks Kal Avriodivovs ^7]\o)Tal Kal ol aiTO rov Ilvdayopov Kal crt TrAetous".
^

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ATKINOL
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ttoAAoi

EPMOTIMOE
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hid<j>opa.

ATKIN02

To

he y aXrjdes olfxat irdvrcjs ttov v

rjv

avrwv,

oAA* ov navra hLd<j)Opd ye

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EPMOTIMOS
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ATKINOi:
15
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Tore rjada 286

dXXd ovrcos diroKpivai Kal Kara tov vvv epie.

ottolos

HERMOTIMUS
HERMOTIMUS
Peripatetics, Epicureans, those Plato as their patron, others also, the devotees of Diogenes and Antisthenes, Pythagoreans,

Very

many the

who take

and more besides.


LYCINUS

True, there are many.

Is
?

what they say the same,

Hermotimus, or

different

HERMOTIMUS
Quite
different.

LYCINUS

At
true
?

all

events, one of their systems, I suppose, They can't all be true if they differ.

is

HERMOTIMUS
No, they
can't.

LYCINUS

Now
first

be a true friend and

tell

me

this

when you

set out to study philosophy, many doors were open to you ; you passed by the others and came to the Stoic door; you deigned to enter through that

door on the way to Virtue, thinking it the only true one which revealed the straight path the rest led Now what was your reason for into blind alleys. this? What at that time made you certain? Please do not think of yourself as you are now, for, half-wise or wise, you can now make better judgments than most of us. Answer as the layman you then were and I am now.
;

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EPMOTIMOE

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ATKINOi:
16

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288

HERMOTIMUS
HERMOTIMUS
I don't see

your point, Lycinus.


LYCINUS

My question was not very complicated really. There have been many philosophers Plato, Aristotle, Antisthenes, and your own predecessors, Chrysippus, Zeno, and the rest. Now, what persuaded you to leave the rest alone and choose to base your studies on the particular one you did? Did Apollo send you back from Delphi, like Chaerephon,^ with his word that the Stoic school was best of all and you should go there ? He has a habit of sending he knows different people to different philosophies the one that suits each person best, I suppose.

HERMOTIMUS
It wasn't like that, Lycinus. Apollo about it. LYCINUS
'

never even asked

Did you think it not worth consulting the god about, or did you think you could make the better choice on your own without his help ?
HERMOTIMUS
I

did think

so.

LYCINUS

Well then, please teach me this first, how, right at the beginning, we can distinguish the best, the true philosophy, the one we must choose, leaving aside the others.
^

Chaerephon asked the oracle who was the wisest mortal


to Socrates.

and he was directed


VOL. VI.

289
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EPMOTIMOS
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ATKINOi:
17

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290

HERMOTIMUS
HERMOTIMUS
I will tell

you.

this one, so I

guessed

saw that most people took to it was the best.


LYCINUS

a count of

or Platonists or Peripatetics ? You obviously took them as in a show of hands.

How many more

Stoics are there than Epicureans

HERMOTIMUS
I

didn't count.

made an
LYCINUS

estimate.

So you are not prepared to teach me. You are cheating when you tell me you decide such a matter by guesswork and weight of numbers. You're hiding the truth from me.

HERMOTIMUS
wasn't just that, Lycinus. I also heard everybody saying that the Epicureans were sensual and lovers of pleasure, that the Peripatetics loved riches and wrangling, and that the Platonists were puffed up and loved glory. But a lot of people said that the Stoics were manly and understood everything and that the man who went this way was the only king, the only rich man, the only wise man, and everything rolled into one.
It

LYCINUS

These were obviously other people's opinions on the schools. You wouldn't have simply believed the respective adherents when they praised their own
schools.

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EPMOTIMOi:
OvSafioj^y oAAa
ol oAAot eAcyov.

ATKINOS
Ol
fJLev Srj

dvrlho^oL ovk eXeyov (hs to lk6s.^

EPMOTIMOE

Ov
Ot

yap.

ATKINOS
S*

dpa

tStcorat

ravra iXeyov.

EPMOTIMOE
Kat
jLtaAa.

ATKINOL
'Opas"
OTTOJ?

avdug i^anarag

fxe

Kal ov Aeyet?

raXr^des. oAA* otct Ma/^ytrT^ StaAcyeo-^at rti^t, cos" TTiorevoai on *Ep/LtoTtjLtos', dn7p crwcro?, eri] tot
ycyoi^cos"
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rd

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ov yap Tnarevoal ooi

alpeaiv tcjv ^ roiav"

ra Xdyovri,

EPMOTIMOZ:
18

AvKtve, ov^l tols aXXoug jjlovov 7TLOTVov oXXcL Kal p,avT(h icopojv ydp avrovs
o)
.

'AAA' otada,

paSlCovras, dva^e^Xiqpievovs cvaraXws, v XP^ Kovptas (f>povri^ovTas del, dppcvconovs rovs TrXeicrrovs, ovSev d^pov ovh^ av Trdvv ig ro dSid(j)opov VTrepeKTrlnrov cog eKTrXrjKrov elvai Kal
KocrixLOJ?
,

After

<f>LXoao<f>ovvre
*

So

TO eiKos MSS. have ovroi 8e -^aav ol ra dXXa del. Solanus. Fritzsche KpciTTOvoiv d^icov. ov ydp Tnanvaai aoi
cos
: :

{marevaaL

ti

G) MSS.

292

HERMOTIMUS
HERMOTIMUS
Certainly not; these were other people's opinions.

LYCINUS

Not

their rivals' opinions, I suppose

HERMOTIMUS
No.
LYCINUS

Laymen's opinions ?
HERMOTIMUS
Yes.
LYCINUS

again you are cheating me and not telling the truth. You think you are talking with some Margites ^ who is ready to beUeve that Hermotimus, an intelligent man forty years of age, on philosophy and philosophers believed the opinions of laymen and made his choice of the better creed I refuse to believe accordingly. you when you say
see things like that.

You

how once

HERMOTIMUS
I did rely on myself as used to see the Stoics walking with dignity, decently dressed, always thoughtful, manly

But you know, Lycinus,


I

well as others.
in looks,

most of them close-cropped; there was nothing effeminate, none of that exaggerated indifference which stamps the genuine crazy Cynic.
^

proverbial fool, the hero of a comic epic attributed to

Homer.
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TOS",

KVVLKOV drexi^c^s, aXX* inl rod fjueaov Karacmjixao Srj apiGTOV diTavTes elvai ^aaiv.

ATKINOi;
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ovv

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19

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EPMOTIMOE
Ata
Tt TOUT* (f>r]Gda;

ATKINOS
"OTt, ojyade, dvSpLavrajv TavT7]v i^eraaiv Xiyets Trapd ttoXv yovv /ctvot TTjv dno ra>v ax^jfJidrcov. Kal rds dva^oXd? KOGpacorcpoL, VGXT]P'OVarpoL

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t

CTp^/xa ouT paSiGfia

opdv Sum/xcro?;

294

HERMOTIMUS
They seemed
says that
is

in a state of

moderation and everyone

best.

LYCINUS

Did you see them behaving also as I said just now I saw your master behaving, Hermotimus ? I mean lending money and making bitter demands to be repaid, quarrelsome and most contentious in conversations and generally behaving themselves as they usually do ? Or is this of little importance to you, so long as the dress is decent, the beard long, and the hair close-cropped ? Then this is to be our strict rule and law for the future in these matters according to Hermotimus we are to distinguish the best men by their appearance, their walk, and their hair, and whosoever has not these signs and does not look sulky and meditative is to be spurned and rejected! You're surely making fun of me, Hermotimus you're trying
:

to see if I can spot the catch.

HERMOTIMUS

Why

do you say that ?


LYCINUS

Because, my dear friend, this test of yours from appearances is for statues. They at any rate are much more prepossessing and comely in their dress, if a Phidias or Alcamenes or Myron has made them But if these are the in the most handsome style. surest, critical tests, what would a blind man do if he wanted to take up philosophy? How does he recognise the one who has made the better choice he can see neither bearing nor gait ?

295

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EPMOTIMOE
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ov irpos TU<f)Xovs 6 Aoyos",


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EPMOTIMOE
Kat
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ATKINOX:

Twv

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dnva

296

HERMOTIMUS
HERMOTIMUS

My

argument
I

Lycinus, and

not addressed to the have no interest in them.


is

blind,

LYCINUS
But, my good sir, there should be some accepted criterion in matters so important and valuable to everyone. However, if you prefer, let the bhnd keep clear of philosophy since they cannot see yet they of all people really should take up philosophy then they would not be completely overwhelmed by their misfortune. Well then, those who can see however sharp-sighted they may be, what can they detect of the qualities of the soul from this outer covering? What I wish to say is this was it not love of the mind of these men that attracted you to them, and

didn't

you expect to be improved


?

in

your mental

powers

HERMOTIMUS

Most

certainly.

LYCINUS
distinguish the true philosopher from the false by the marks you mentioned ? Such things are not usually shown in that way they are secret and not visible, showing themselves in con;

Then how could you

versation and discussion and corresponding action, and then only with difficulty and after a long period. You have heard, I suppose, what faults Momus found in Hephaestus; if not I'll tell you. The story goes that Athena, Poseidon, and Hephaestus were quarrelling over which of them was the best artist. Poseidon modelled a bull, Athena designed a house, while

Hephaestus,

it

seems, put together a man.

When
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EPMOTIMOi:
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rovro npds yovv

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ATKINOS
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d)V

dv

eLTTO).

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iydj

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dv

298

HERMOTIMUS
they came to Momus, whom they had appointed judge, he examined the work of each. What faults he found in the other two we need not say, but his criticism of the man and his reproof of the craftsman, Hephaestus, was this he had not made windows in his chest which could be opened to let everyone see
:

his desires and thoughts and if he were lying or telling the truth. Momus, of course, being shortsighted, held such notions about men, but you have better sight than Lynceus and, it seems, see through the chest to what is inside, and everything is revealed to you, and you know not only what each man wants and thinks, but also who is better or worse.

HERMOTIMUS
are joking, Lycinus. I chose with God's help and I have no regrets. I at any rate am satisfied.

You

LYCINUS

But

will

you leave

me

you not

tell

me

too,

my

friend

Or
?

will

rotting

among the

vulgar rabble

HERMOTIMUS
Nothing
I

say pleases you.


LYCINUS

you refuse to say anything you are deliberately keeping me in the dark and you grudge me the chance of becoming as good a philosopher as you are, I shall
so,

Not

my

good

sir;

to please me.

So, since

Solanus from one late MS.

^ other MSS.

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EPMOTIMOL
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pijjLOv epels.

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300

HERMOTIMUS
try as well as
for these matters

Now

can to find out for myself the true test and the safest choice to make. please listen to me.
I

HERMOTIMUS
I

am willing,

Lycinus.

Perhaps you

will

say some-

thing important.
LYCINUS

Then
if
it

my

give your attention and don't mock me investigation is altogether that of a layman ; can't be helped when you will not explain more

me

precisely although

you know

better.
like a city

Virtue then seems to

me

whose

in-

habitants are happy (as your teacher,

who has come

from there, wherever it

may be, would say), outstand-

ing in their wisdom, all of them brave, just, prudent, almost gods. All those things that you find here

find would robbery, violence, cheating they say you


;

none of them ventured in that city; no, they live together in peace and harmony naturally enough for what, I suppose, in other cities produces strife and
and counter-plot, is entirely absent. do not any longer look on gold, pleasures, or They as glory things to quarrel about they drove them from the city long ago, thinking them unnecessary to their common life. So they live a calm and perfectly
discord, plot

happy life with good government, and the other blessings.

equality, freedom,

301

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EPMOTIMOL
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302

HERMOTIMUS
HERMOTIMUS
Well then, Lycinus,
isn't it right for

everyone to

long for citizenship of a city like that, and neither to think of the toils of the journey nor give up because of the time it takes, if once they get there they too are going to be enrolled as citizens and share in the
city's life?

LYCINUS

Yes, indeed, Hermotimus, this we must strive for above everything, and all else we must ignore. If our native country here lays claim to us, we must take
scant notice, and if any children or parents we may have cling to us weeping, we shall not give way. No, first and foremost we shall urge them to follow the same road. If they will not, or cannot, we must shake them off and make straight for that all-happy city, throwing off our very cloak should they hold on to it to drag us back as we hurry there for there is no fear of being shut out, even if you come there naked. On another occasion before this I have heard an old man telling how things were there and urging me to follow him to the city he would guide me himself and enrol me on my arrival, make me a fellow-tribesman and let me share his clan, so that " I might be happy with all the others. But I would " ^ not listen at that time through folly and youth (it was about fifteen years ago) perhaps by now I should have been in the very suburbs, even by the He told me much about the city, if I rememgates. ber, and in particular this, that all the inhabitants

verse quotation.
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dv,

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'HatoSos"

paijjcphos,

Tvdvv

TToppoj

aTTcpKLaraL,

304

HERMOTIMUS
were aliens and foreigners, not one was a native there were even many barbarians among the citizens, in a as well as slaves, cripples, dwarfs, and paupers word anyone who wanted to take part in the city;
;

for property, apparel, height, good looks, family, brilliant ancestry, were not required by law for enrolment ; on the contrary, they gave no place in their

customs to them
is

no, intelligence, a desire for

what

good, industry, perseverance, a refusal to give in or be weakened by the many hardships encountered on the way, were enough for a man to become a citizen whoever showed these qualities and kept on going all the way to the city was a citizen there and then equal inferior or superior, noble or common, to them all bond or free, simply did not exist and were not mentioned in the city.
; ;

HERMOTIMUS
see then, Lycinus, that my labour is not in vain or for trifles, if I desire to be myself a' citizen of a city so fair and happy.

You

LYCINUS

Yes, Hermotimus, and

myself am in love with the

same things and there is nothing I would pray for more. If the city had been near at hand and visible
to everyone, you can be sure that long since, without a moment's hesitation, I myself should have entered in and been a citizen this long time, but, since, as you has been built at a very say, you and the poet Hesiod, it
^

Tov

rcjv

Xafiirpiov

Fritzsche

outcu

Xafinpov

ovBe

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TjyejjLova 7TOLLV ;

avayKTj ^rjreiu oSov re rrjv dyovaav en avrrju Kal rov apiOTOV. r^ ovk oiei ov ^(p'fjvaL ovroj

EPMOTIMOS Kat TTws av dXXcos eXdoL tls ;


ATKINOS
V7naxvLGdaL Kal d^dovia rcov '^yrjaofievcov TToAAot yap eroLfMOL Trapeordcnv avroxOoves Kel9ev eKaaros elvai Xeyovres. 686s y fjLrjv ov jiia Kal Tj avTTj <l>aivrai oAAa TroAAat Kal hid^opoi Kal ovhev oAAT^AatS" o/xotat- tj p,ev yap iirl rd icTrepLa,
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Svva{jLVOLS

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.

^ 2

So Fritzsche

aov
:

fiev eVt

to

FN

oaov

fikv eVi

iKaoTTjs Jensius

eKaoTos

MSS.

to Seager.

306

HERMOTIMUS
great distance, we must look for the path that leads there and the best guide to follow. Don't you agree that we must do this ?

HERMOTIMUS

How

else could

one go there
LYCINUS

Well, as regards making promises and saying that they know, there are plenty of would-be guides. Many are standing ready, each one saying he is a native of that city. But no one and the same road is to be seen. There are many different ones not at all like each other: one seems to lead to the west, another to the east, another to the north, a fourth one goes through straight towards the south;

meadows and gardens and shady

a wellspots watered, pleasant road with nothing to block the way or make hard-going; another is rocky and rough, promising much sun and thirst and exNevertheless all these roads are said to haustion. lead to the city, although there is but one city, while they have their ends in the opposite parts of the
globe. All

them

For, whichever of difficulty lies here. approach, a man who stands at the beginning of each path at the entrance, a very trustworthy person, stretches out his hand, and urges me to go off along his road, and each one of them says that he alone knows the direct route and that the others are astray, since they have neither gone there themselves nor followed others able to lead them. If

my

go to

his neighbour,

he makes similar promises


307

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avrov oSou
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EPMOTIMOE
27

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a<f)aXLr)s.

ATKINOE
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rot?

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TO avTO dvopov iv
Tuyv TrpayfidTCuv
cttl

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dnd

tovs dvSpa? fxeTeXrjXvdos.

EPMOTIMOi:
Hdjs TovTo
"Ort
o
(f>'qs ;

ATKINOE
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;

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EPM0TIM02
nco? ydp ov ;

ATKINOS

Ou
308

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/xe

T-r]s

dnopias, oAA* ert


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OfJLOLOjg

dyvoco

tco

{xaXXov

XPV

twv

HERMOTIMUS
about his own road and vilifies the others. next to him acts similarly, and so do they

The man
all in

turn.

The number of

roads,

then,

and the differences

between them, and

especially the way the guides over-strain themselves, each sect praising its own, worries me immoderately and makes me uncertain. I don't know which way to turn or which one to follow to reach the city.

HERMOTIMUS
I

will

free

you from your uncertainty.

those

who have made

Trust the journey before, Lycinus,

and you cannot go wrong.


LYCINUS
? Which road did they go ? Which of the guides did they follow? The same

Whom

do you mean

uncertainty appears to us in another guise shifting

from events to persons. HERMOTIMUS

What do you mean ?


LYCINUS

That the man who took

Plato's path

and had him

for travelling-companion will obviously praise Plato's route, and so with Epicurus 's and the rest and you

with yours. not so ?

What

about

it,

Hermotimus?

Is

that

HERMOTIMUS

Of course.
LYCINUS
I

Then you have not freed me from my uncertainty. am just as much in the dark which of the travellers
309

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opcb

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r)7v etV 'Ii^8ou?

ayouorav ct? Koptv^ov areAAett'.

EPMOTIMOS
Kat
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re, cS Au/ctve;

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ATKIN02
28

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ovhe Tovro
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dplarrjv
iXofievovs,
:

rdxa
310

et

/cat

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hiov Solanus

^8ea>s

MSS.

HERMOTIMUS
For I see that each of them and the guide to trust. himself have tried only one way, and he praises that one and says that it alone leads to the city. But I cannot know whether he is speaking the truth. That he has reached some destination and has seen some city or other, I will perhaps grant him. But whether he has seen the one he should have seen (that in which you and I want to live) or whether, when he should have gone to Corinth, he has arrived at Babylon and thinks he has seen Corinth, I still do not know certainly not everyone who has seen a city has seen Corinth, if Corinth is not the only city. What particularly makes me uncertain is this my knowing that only one road can possibly be the right one. Only one road is the Corinth road, and the other roads lead anywhere except to Corinth, unless a man is so much out of his wits as to think that both the road to the Hyperboreans and the road to India lead

to Corinth.

HERMOTIMUS

How could that be, Lycinus to different places.


LYCINUS
liberation

Different roads lead

Well then, my dear Hermotimus, no little deis needed when we choose roads and guides, and we shall not act according to the saying and go in that way we shall off wherever our feet take us be going off on the road to Babylon or Bactra in;

stead of the road to Corinth without realising it. It is by no means sound to trust to fortune and hope we shall perhaps take the best road, if we start out on

3"

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MSS.

HERMOTIMUS
one or the other without enquiry. It is possible for even that to happen, and perhaps at some period of time's long history it has already happened; but in a matter of such importance I think we ought not to run such a reckless risk or confine hope entirely within narrow bounds, ready as the proverb says to sail the Aegean or Ionian seas on a mat; then we should have no right to accuse fortune, if with her arrows and spears she did not altogether hit the one
thing that
is true among the many that are not. Even Homer's archer did not succeed in that when

he should have shot the dove he cut the string; Teucer I think it was.^ No, there was much more reason to expect one of the many others to be wounded and fall foul of the arrow than that parThe risk is not slight, if ticular one out of them all. in ignorance we rush into one of the by-ways instead
of the straight route in the hope that fortune will make a better choice on our behalf I think you see

that.

round and come back again in safety is no easy matter once a man casts off his mooring lines and surrenders himself to the wind; he must be tossed about on the sea, usually sick and frightened and with a bad head from the swell, whereas he ought in the first place, before he sailed out, to have climbed up to some look-out and seen whether the wind was fair and favourable for those who wanted to sail over to Corinth, and indeed he ought to have selected the very best navigator and a sound ship able to withstand such a heavy sea.

For

still

to turn

Homer,

11. xxiii,

867.

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EPMOTIMOS
29

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30
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6

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raX-qBil imi.axi'oviievov

(om. v-max- ^) MSS.

HERMOTIMUS
HERMOTIMUS
the better way, Lycinus, by far. Yet I if you made a round tour of them all you would find no others who were better pilots or more experienced navigators than the Stoics and, if you want to reach Corinth some day, you will follow them, treading the tracks of Chrysippus and Zeno. No other way is possible.

That

is

know

that

LYCINUS

Hermotimus, how universal is that Plato's fellow-traveller, assertion you have made? 's follower, and the rest of them, would say Epicurus the same, every one of them, that I could not go to Corinth without his company. So I must either
see,

Do you

believe them all alike (which is ridiculous) or disbelieve them all alike. The latter is by far the safest course until we discover the true one. Come now, suppose that I, just as I am, still ignorant which of them all has the truth, should choose your way, putting my trust in you, a friend, but one who knows only the way of the Stoics and has travelled by this road alone ; then suppose one of the gods brought Plato, Pythagoras, Aristotle, and the rest, back to life, and they stood round me and put questions to me, or even, by Zeus, brought me into court and sued me each and every one of them

My good Lycinus, what was the matter with you? Who persuaded you to give Chrysippus and Zeno preference over us, who are older by far than they? They were born only yesterday, or the day before, and you have given us no chance to speak, and you have put nothing of what we say to the test." Supposing they said this,
for maltreatment, saying
:

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316

HERMOTIMUS
how
could I answer them ? Or will it be enough if I say that I was persuaded by Hermotimus, a friend " of mine? Their answer I know would be: We, he whoever not know this do Hermotimus, Lycinus, So you had no is, and he does not know us either. right to condemn us all and give a judgment in default against us through relying on a man who is acquainted with only one way in philosophy, and even that perhaps not fully. Lawgivers, Lycinus, do not instruct judges to adopt this procedure, or to give one party a hearing and not allow the other to speak on its own behalf what it thinks is to its own advantage. No, they say that both sides must be given an equal hearing, so that by comparing the

opposing arguments they may be assisted in discovering the true and the false, and if they do not adopt this procedure the law allows an appeal to another court." Such or something like it is the argument they would use. Or one of them perhaps would even put
"
: :

Tell me this, an additional question to me suppose an Ethiopian, a man who had Lycinus never seen other men like us, because he had never been abroad at all, should state and assert in some assembly of the Ethiopians that nowhere in the world were there any men white or yellow or of any other colour than black, would he be believed by them ? Or would one of the older Ethiopians say to him Come now, you are very bold. How do you know this ? You have never left us to go anywhere else, and indeed you have never seen what things are " I for my part would like among other peoples? man the old had asked a fair question. that say Or what do you advise, Hermotimus ?
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EPMOTIMOS
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318

tt

pood els avros.

HERMOTIMUS
HERMOTIMUS
I

agree.

His rebuke seems to


LYCINUS

me

very just.

To me

as well,

Hermotimus.

But

do not know

that you will similarly agree with what follows. me this too seems to be very just.

To

HERMOTIMUS

What?
LYCINUS

The fellow will certainly go on and say to me some" Let us make a comparison, Lycinus, thing like this and posit a man who knows only the Stoic tenets, like this friend of yours, Hermotimus he has never gone abroad to Plato's country or stayed with Epicurus or in short with anyone else. Now, if he said that there was nothing in these many lands as beautiful or as true as the tenets and assertions of Stoicism, would you not with good reason think him bold in giving his opinion on all, and that when he knows only one, and has never put one foot outside " What answer do you think I should Ethiopia?
:

give

him ?
HERMOTIMUS

This very true one, of course that we do learn Stoicism very thoroughly indeed, since we think fit to pursue this branch of philosophy, but we are not unacquainted with what the others say. For our teacher explains all that to us as he goes along, and
:

knocks

it

down with

his

own comments.
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ATKINOS
33

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320

HERMOTIMUS
LYCINUS
Well, do you suppose that at this point the adherents of Plato and Pythagoras and Epicurus and the rest will keep quiet, and not laugh out loud and " What is your friend Hermotimus doing, say to me He thinks it right to believe what our Lycinus? opponents say about us, and supposes our views to be whatever they say they are, although they either are ignorant of the truth or conceal it. So, if he sees some athlete training before his match, kicking into the air, or punching at empty space as though he were striking his opponent, he will, if he
:

is

referee, straightway proclaim

him

as unbeatable,

he consider these romps easy and devoid of risk when he has no antagonist, and adjudge him the winner only when he has overcome and beaten his opponent in the flesh and the latter gives in, and not othervdse ? So do not let Hermotimus suppose from the shadow-boxing his teachers
will
?

he

Or

will

practise against us in our absence that they are strong or that our tenets are such as can be easily overthrown. For such a fabrication would be like the houses which children make : they have built them weak in structure and knock them over at once ; or again indeed like men practising archery who make

bundles of twigs, then fix them up on a pole which they set up at no great distance in front of them, and taking aim let fly. If ever they score a hit and pierce the twigs, they at once give a shout as though they have done something great, because their shaft has gone right through their collection of sticks. But this is not what the Persians do nor the Scythian archers. No, in the first place they themselves are usually on moving horses when they shoot, and
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ra TO^evojieva KLveiGdai a^iovaiv ovx iarajra ovBe av ifXTTearj, dXXa Trepifievovra to ^eXos cot
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Kopvdos Xevaorovai plItwttov.


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34

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TOV GTopLaTos.

/cat

o ^EippLOTLpios Toiya-

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HERMOTIMUS
secondly, they think that the targets should be too, not stationary and waiting for the impact of the shafts, but running about as fast as possible. They generally use wild animals as their targets, and some of them hit birds. If ever they want to test the impact of the shot on the target, they set up a hard- wood board or a raw-hide shield to pierce, and in that way they gain confidence that their arrows

moving

can even penetrate armour.

So

tell

Hermotimus from

have bested armed men and that they are sparring with painted dummies which look like us, and when, as is natural, they have had the better of them they think they have the better of us. To them each of us would quote the words of Achilles about Hector
;
: '

us, Lycinus, that his teachers are setting up collections of sticks to shoot at and then saying that they

My

helmet's front they do not see.'


all

"

This

is

what they

say, each in his turn.


:

would add one of those stories from Gelo of Syracuse is Sicily (he knows most of them) said to have had bad breath and to have been for a long time ignorant of the fact as no one dared to criticise a tyrant, until a certain foreign woman with whom he had to do dared to tell him how it was. He went to his wife in a rage because she had not told him, although she of all people knew of the bad odour. She begged him to pardon her, for, never having had experience of another man or having been at close quarters with one, she supposed"that the mouths of all men had breath like that. So, Hermotimus,"
Plato, I fancy,
^

Homer,

II.

xvi, 70.

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fjLard ioTTLV.
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en

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<f>r]iJLL,

EPMOTIMOS
35
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etvat.

y -^ TTjv TeXoivo? yvvauKa TiVpaKovoojv 77-t Tov Xoyov ;

tl

ehei

At^toTra? 8e KaXeZv k

ATKINOS
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EPMOTIMOL
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Kpiavddvojv e/caora.

TTTapa dpLdpbov aTTOTeXovoLVy dpa


324

Be'qoeL

rrepL-

HERMOTIMUS
since he mixes only with Stoics, Plato might say, naturally does not know what other people's mouths are like." Chrysippus could say the same or go even further, if I were to leave him unexamined and go over to Platonism, relying on one of those who had conversed with Plato alone. In short, then, I say that, as long as it is uncertain which creed of philosophy is true, choose none. For choice of one would be misconduct towards the others.
**

HERMOTIMUS
In Hestia's name, Lycinus, let us leave Plato and Aristotle and Epicurus and the others undisturbed,
for I

am

no match

enquire into it by philosophy is as I Gelo's wife, why Syracuse into the

ourselves,

Let us, you and me, whether the pursuit of say it is. As for Ethiopians and did you have to call her from
for

them.

discussion?

LYCINUS
off, if they seem you to be superfluous to the discussion. You do the talking now. You look as though you are going

Why,

let

them take themselves

to

to say something wonderful.

HERMOTIMUS
It

seems to me quite possible, Lycinus, by thorough

study of the Stoic doctrines alone, to know the truth from them, even if one does not pursue those of the others and make a thorough study of them in detail.

Look at it this way if someone tells you merely that two twos make the number four, will you have to go
:

about questioning

all

the other mathematicians to 325

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ATKINOE

AvrUa,

c5 'Ep/xdrt/xc.

EPMOTIMOE
Tt
TTor'

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Xdvovrd riva
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fiovoLS rots ^tcj'Ckols Xeyovcrt rdXrjdrj

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Xiyoicriv
;

ATKINOS
36
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EPMOTIMOi:

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reXovs ;

EPMOTIMOL
OvSafidjs
.

326

HERMOTIMUS
see
if

there
it five

may
is

not perhaps be one of them


?

who

makes

or seven

Or would you know


?

at once

that this

man

speaking the truth


LYCINUS

At

once, Hermotimus.

HERMOTIMUS

Why then does it seem to you to be impossible for a man when he meets only Stoics who speak the truth to believe them and have no further need of the others in his knowledge that four could never be five, even if thousands of Platos and Pythagorases say so ?
LYCINUS

That is not to the point at all, Hermotimus. You are comparing what is admitted to what is in dispute,
although they differ enormously. Or what would you say? Have you met anyone who says that by putting together two twos he makes the number seven or eleven ?

HERMOTIMUS

But anyone would be answer was not four.


I.

Not

mad who

said the

LYCINUS

Well then, have you ever met (and by the Graces try to be truthful) any Stoic and Epicurean who did not differ about principles and ends ?

HERMOTIMUS
In no way.
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EPMOTIMOi:
37

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ATKINOE OvKovv oa^ioTepov XPV ^^y^^^ dXXd p,rj TOLOVTOV (f)T^aLS.


328

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eTcpolov

t:

HERMOTIMUS
LYCINUS

and that though I am your friend. are enquiring who has the truth in philosophy, you have prematurely seized on the answer and taken it and assigned it to the Stoics, when you say that they are the ones who make twice two equal four, although it is not clear that this is so. For the Epicureans and the Platonists would say that they get this result, while you Stoics call it five or seven. Or do you not think that this is what they are doing when you think that only the beautiful is good, while the Epicureans say it is pleasure ? And when you say that all things are corporeal, while Plato thinks that there is an incorporeal element in what

Make sure then that you are not somehow cheating

me,

my

good

sir,

For, while

we

exists ? No, as I said, you very arrogantly lay hold of the bone of contention as being the undisputed property of the Stoics, and give it to them to possess ; and yet, when the others are asserting rival claims and saying that it is theirs, then, I think, there is every need for a judgment. If it becomes quite clear then that it is the privilege of the Stoics alone to think that twice two are four, it is time for the rest to be quiet. But as long as they contest this very claim, we must give a hearing to all alike, or realise that we shall be thought to be giving a biased judg-

ment.

HERMOTIMUS seems to me, Lycinus, that you do not understand what I mean.
It

LYCINUS

Then you must speak more clearly, if your argument is to be different from what I say.
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EPMOTIMOL
EtcT27

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Kat
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EPMOTIMOS
rli;^t

0 Travrojs o erepos.

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licks'

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ov, ct ye dnoXcoXev ;

EPMOTIMOE
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ATKINOS

EPMOTIMOE
Kat
330
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HERMOTIMUS
HERMOTIMUS what I mean. Let us suppose that two persons have entered the Asclepieum or the sanctuary of Dionysus, and that subsequently one of the sacred chalices is missing. It will without doubt be necessary to search both of them to find out which one of the two has the chalice

You

will learn

at once

in his clothing.

LYCINUS

Very

true.

HERMOTIMUS

One

of them surely has

it.

LYCINUS

Of course,

if it

has disappeared.

HERMOTIMUS

And if you discover it on the


the other.
it.

It will

first, you will not strip be quite clear that he has not got

LYCINUS

Quite

clear.

HERMOTIMUS

And

if

we were not

to find

it

in the first one's


it,

clothing, the second man surely has in this case too no need of a search.

and there

is

LYCINUS

Yes, he has

it.

HERMOTIMUS
Suppose we find the chalice already in the hands of the Stoics, we shall not bother to search the others, since we have what we have

So too

in our case.

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yap dv
38
a^icoaofjiv exovres o TToXai eVe/ca ert /ca/xvot/xev ;

i^rjrovixev.

rq

rivos

ATKINOL
OuScVOS", ye VpOLT Kal Vp6vT9 e^OLTC ctSeVat CO? EKetvo rjv ro aTToAcuAo?, rf oXcos yvaypipiov vpxv L7] TO dvddrjfjLa. vvv he, cS eralpe, TrpojTOV fiev ov Svo elalv ol TrapeXdovres is rov vewv, ws
L

dXXd

avayKolov elvai rov erepov avroZv rd cfxlypia XLV, fjLoXa TToXXoL TLV9, cfxtt Kal TO dTToXofxevov avTO dSr]Xov 6 tl ttotc cgtlv, etre <f)LdXr] rt? -^

OGOL yovv UpeiSy aXXos oAAo ovhe irepl ttJ? vXr)s avTrjs ofjLoXoyovacVy dXX* ol fiev ^P-Xkov, ol 8e dpyvpov, ol Se xp^^oVy ol 8e Kaaairepov etvat avTo cfydaKovGLv. dvdyK-q toLwv diravTas aTToSucrat Tovg elaeXOovTas, 6t jSouAct evpelv to dTToXcoXos. Kal yap dv TTapd Tip TTpcoTcp evdvs evprjs <f)LdXT]v xp^^^ TL /cat TOVS dXXoVS OOL d7ToSvTOV.
GKv<f)OS Tf OTcf)avos. elvai Xiyovoiv Kal

EPMOTIMOE
Ata
TL, (L

AvKLve;

ATKINOL
"Otl dSrjXov L ^idXrj to dvoXopievov rjv. el 8c Kal TOVTo VTTO iTavTCov opLoXoyTjOeLTj , aAA' ovTL ye Xpvarjv diravTes ^aGLv etvat ttjv (jyidX-qv. el he
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XpvGTJ,
Tj

/cat /xaAtcrra yvayptpLov

ovK

olei TToAAa? (jiLoXas elvai

xP^^dg ;

332

HERMOTIMUS
been looking for for a long time. trouble further ?
LYCINUS

Why

should

we

There is no reason, if you really find it and once having found it you can know that that is what was missing, or if you can with certainty recognise the sacred object. But in this case, my friend, those
first

of all who go into the temple are not two, so that one of the two must have the loot, but very many and secondly just what the missing object is is not clear whether it is a chalice or a cup or a garland. All the priests give different accounts of it and do not agree even about the very stuff it is made of: some say it is of copper, others of silver, others of So you must strip all the gold, yet others of tin. visitors, if you want to find the missing article. For, if you find a golden chalice straightway on the first, you must nevertheless strip the others as well.
;

HERMOTIMUS
WTiy, Lycinus?
LYCINUS

not clear that it was a chalice that was missing. And even if this be admitted by everyone, then they do not all agree that the chalice is golden. And if it is well known that a gold cup is missing, and you find a gold cup on the first man, you would not even so refrain from searching the rest it would not be clear I suppose whether that was the one belonging to the god. Or do you not think that there are

Because

it is

many

chalices

made

of gold

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EPMOTIMOS
"Kycoye.

ATKINOS
Aeijcret Srj Trap* c/cacrro)

Trdvras teVat ipevvcovra /cat ra evpedevra iravra els fxeoov Karadivra


ttI

eLKd^eiv 6 TL TTore avrcbv TTpiiroi dv delou KTrjfxa oleodai.

39

Ka6 ydp av to
TOVrO
GTLVy

rr)v TTO^rjv aTTopiav nape^^opLCVov

OTL

.KaGTOS

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ex^L Tt Trdvrajs, 6 pLv UKVcfyov, 6 he <l)LdXr]v, 6 8e


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OjLtota et^ov dSrjXov rjv /cat ovrtog ogtls 6 rd rod deov v(f)'rjp7]iJLevos eGri ydp /cat tStcort/ca e)(eiv. TO 8' atrtov tt}? dyvoias ev gtiv o?/xat to dveiriy-

pa(f)ov
<f)LdXrjv

etvat rrjv dTToXop,ev7]v

(fyidX-qv

(dcofjiev

ydp

ye eTreyeypaiTTO rod deov TO 6vop,a t^ tov dvadevTOS "^Jttov dv eKapivopiev /cat eupovTes ttjv iinyeypapipLevrjv eireTTavpied* dv diTohvovTes /cat evo^XovvTes tovs dXXovs. olpLai
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ott.

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/cat

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ATKINOL
'H ovv
eKade^ov ;
334
7TOT
/cat

napd tov9 dOXodeTug avTOVS

HERMOTIMUS
HERMOTIMUS
Y^s, of course.

of those whom you will strip has surely something one a cup, another a chalice, another a garland, and each of these may be of bronze, gold, or silver. And it is still not clear whether that which each man has is the holy object. So you have every reason to hesitate about whom to accuse of temple-robbery. In this case, even if all had similar objects, even so it would be uncertain who had stolen the property of the god for these articles may be private property too. The sole reason for our ignorance, I suppose, is that the missing chalice has no inscription (assuming that it is a chalice), since if it had been inscribed with the name of the god or the person who had made the dedication we should have had less difficulty, and when we had found the inscribed chalice we should stop stripping and troubling the others. I think, Hermotimus, that you have often watched

You will have to go to everyone in your search, put together all that you find on each, and guess which one is likely to be the property of the god. For this is where your great difficulty lies each
:

athletic contests

HERMOTIMUS

You

think rightly.

Many

a time, In

many

places.

LYCINUS

Now, have you ever sat near the judges themselves


?

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EPMOTIMOS
N17 Ala, evayxo? 'OAu/XTztacriv inl ra Aatct tcjv *KXXavoSiKa>v, EuavSptSou rod ^HXelov deav yioi TTpoKaraXa^ovTOS iv rols iavrov TToXirais' iireSvairavra opdv ra irapa roZs fjLOVv yap lyyvdev

'EAAavoSt/cat? ytyvo/xva.

ATKINOi:
Otcj^a ovv Kal rovro, ttvjs KXiqpovaiv wrivL XPV T^ctActtcti^ "^ TrayKpaTid^eLV ;

ovriva

EPMOTIMOS
OrSa yap.

ATKINOE
OvKovv av
40
^

dfxcLvov crv ctTTOt?

cos"

iyyvdev

IScov.

EPMOTIMOE

To

fxev TToXaiov inl 'Hpa/cAcous'


. . .

dycovoderovvrog

<l)vXXa hd<j>vqs

ATKINOi:
TToXai, Ml} /xot iyyvdev, cKctva Acyc.

ra

cS

*Ep/xort/i,

a 8e

cfSc?

EPMOTIMOS
KaATn? dpyvpd
raxrrqv
irpoKeirai

Upd rod
.

Oeov.

is

hrj p,^aXXovrai KXrjpOL fiLKpol, yypd(f)KvapLiaZoi rd pueyedos, CTrtyeypa/XjueVot rai he c? hvo pikv dX<f>a v iKarepo), e? Svo 8e to Kal i^rjs Kara jS^Jra, Kal is dXXovs hvo to ya/x/xa

oaov

rd avrd,

ol d6Xr]Tal cogl, Svo del iqv irXeiovs TO avro KXrjpoL ypdp,pLa e^ovres. TrpoaeXdwv 8rj Tojv dOXrjTCov eKaaros 7rpoGev^dp,evos rco Ad
^

av add. Jacobitz.

HERMOTIMUS
HERMOTIMUS
Yes, indeed. Recently at Olympia I sat to the left of the National Judges. Euandridas of Elis reserved me a seat among his fellow-citizens, for I wanted to see everything that happened among the judges from near at hand.
LYCINUS
Well, do you know
this too

how they draw


pancratium
?

lots

for the pairs in the wrestling or the

HERMOTIMUS
Yes,
I

know.
LYCINUS

Then, since you have seen it from near at hand, you could give a better account of it than I.

HERMOTIMUS
In former times,
leaves
. . .

when Heracles was judge, bayLYCINUS

Don't tell me about former times, Hermotimus, but what you saw from near at hand.

HERMOTIMUS
urn dedicated to the god is placed before them. Into this are thrown small lots, the size of beans, with letters on them. Two are marked alpha, two beta, two gamma, and so on in the same way, if
silver

there are more competitors, two lots always having the same letter. Each of the competitors comes up, offers a prayer to Zeus, puts his hand into the urn,
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KaBels
TTjv

X^^P^

^^

'^W

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avaaira

tcjv

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fxev

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dv tovto dv Klvol dyioviGOJVTai' ov yap ex^i to avrtypa/x/xa. Kal eOTL tovto ov /JLLKpd Ti9 CVTUXLO- TOV ddXr]TOV, TO
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^xov.

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8'

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Gt

pLeXXetv dKp,rJTa Tolg KKp,7]K6(Ti ovp,TTGeio9ai.

ATKINOS
41

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ovKovv
G.

OLTpe/JLas.

tovtov

yap

iSeopLrjv

juaAtcrra.

evvea

ovTes

dveoTrdKaoiv
TTpucov
St)

duavTes

Kal

exovGL TOV9 kXtjpovs.

*YiXXavohiKriv dvTl OeaTOV

( ^ovXop,ai yap TTOirJGai) eTTiGKOTreZs

dv ypdjJL/jLaTa, Kal ov irpOTepov olpiai p,ddois 6gtl9 6 ecfjeSpog gtiv, r^v purj inl rrdvTas eXdrj? Kal GvCev^r)9 avTovs.

ra

EPMOTIMOL
Ilajs", c5

AvKLve, tovto
*

(j)ris ;

olov

j3,

oAov y.

338

HERMOTIMUS
and picks up one of the
the same.
his
lots.

After him another does

A policeman stands by each one and holds

hand, not letting him read what the letter is which When all now have their own, the chief police officer, I think it is, or one of the National Judges themselves (I don't remember now) goes round the competitors, who are standing in a circle, and inspects their lots. In this way he matches one who has alpha to the one who has drawn the other alpha for the wrestling or the pancratium. Similarly he matches the two betas, and the others with the same letter in the same way. This is what he does if the contestants are even in number eight or four or twelve, for instance but if they are odd five or seven or nine he throws in with the rest a lot marked with an odd letter which has no duplicate. Whoever draws this is given a bye and stands out until the rest have competed, for he has no corresponding letter. This is no small boon to the competitor the opportunity to come fresh against tired

he has drawn.

opponents.
LYCINUS

This is just what I wanted. Now, suppose they are nine in number and they have all drawn and are holding their lots. You go round (I want to make you a National Judge instead of a I fancy you will spectator) and inspect the letters. not learn in advance who has been given a bye, unless you go to every one of them and pair them.

Stop there.

HERMOTIMUS

What do you mean by

this,

Lycinus

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ATKINOi: ^ASvvarov ianv evdvs evpelv ro
ypa/Xjita e/cctvo

TO SrjXovv Tov (f)ehpov, t) to fikv ypa/x/xa 'iGOis av vpoL9y ov fJLTjv LGr] y L eKelvos iarLV ov yap to 1 iorlv ro TTpoeiprjTat on ro K ^ ro rj X^Lporovovv rov (f)Spov. aAA' eTTechav ra> ivTUXJ}?, Carets rov ro erepov A exovra /cat

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Vpojv KLvovs fiV

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ex^JV ro dvavrayajviarov ,

EPMOTIMOL
42

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8' t Keivo) Trpcoro)

^ Sevrdpu) ivrvxoLS,^

ri

TTOiijorevs ;

ATKINOE
orv 6 *EAAavoSt/CT7? iOeXco fJiev etScVat o Tt /cat irpd^eis, TTorepov auTt/ca ipeXs drL ovros Griv 6 ecfyeSpog, 7] SeTjoret iirl ndvras iv

Ov

ovv,

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kvkXo) iXdovra ISelv


iariv ;
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t

ct ttov

avrcp ypdiJLp,a opuoLov

ye pbrj roifs Trdvrcov KXijpovs tSot? ovK dv piddoLS rov e^ebpov.

EPMOTIMOS
AvKLve, pabicjs dv pudBoLpiL. errl evvea ^v ro E evpoj irpcorov tj Sevrepov, yovv ot8a oTt e(f)e8pos 6 rovro exojv earl.
p^rjvy

Kat

o)

rcx)V

ATKINOL
Xlo)?, c5 '^ppLoripie
^

ivrvxoLs Belinus

evTvxj)?

MSS.

349

HERMOTIMUS
LYCINUS
impossible immediately to find that letter which gives you the bye, or perhaps you could find the letter, but you will certainly not know if it is that one, for there is no prior declaration of kappa or mu or iota as the letter which chooses the bye. When you find alpha, you look for the competitor who has the other alpha, and, when you find him, you have already paired them. Then again, when you come on beta, you look for the other beta, the counterpart of the one you have found, and so with all of them, until you are left with the competitor who has the only letter that has no counterpart.
It
is

HERMOTIMUS

What
will

you come on you do ?


if
is

this

one

first

or second,

what

LYCINUS
It

not what / shall do.


I

You are the National


will do.

Judge, and

want

to

you say at once that this man is given a bye, or will you have to go round them all, to see whether there is somewhere a corresponding letter ? If you did not look at the lots of everyone, you would not discover who had the bye.
HERMOTIMUS
should know quite easily, Lycinus. In the case of nine competitors, if I find epsilon first or second, I know that the one holding this lot is the one who has the bye.

know what you

Will

Oh,

LYCINUS

How, Hermotimus?
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EPMOTIMOL
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TO

A
TWV

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tovto

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c5

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ra

y*

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hoKovvTa

EPMOTIMOE
hiaTTopo) piivTOi o Nt7 dvrL7rLV exoLS irpos to tolovtov.

Ata.

tl

dv

evXoyov

ATKINOE
43
Trdvrajv ypacfyofxevcov fJLev efij? yap tov A, SevTcpov ypafjLfjidTOjv elp7]KaSy olov irpajTov

2u

ws

Se TOV

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,*

lxS axTTTcp vvv

TTJ

Td^L avTcov TeKpLaLpcadaL.

342

HERMOTIMUS
HERMOTIMUS
In this

have beta.

way two have alpha, and similarly two Of the remaining four, two have surely
:

have So it is clear that only the next letter, epsilon, could be odd, and he who has drawn this one gets the bye.
already been used up
delta, and four letters for eight competitors.

drawn

gamma and two

LYCINUS
Shall I praise you for your intelligence, or would you like me to explain the different view I have of

the matter?

HERMOTIMUS
Certainly.

But

fail

to

see

what reasonable

answer you can give to such an argument.


LYCINUS

You have spoken


written in order

as if the letters are definitely

mean

alpha

first,

beta second,

and so on through the alphabet, until the number of competitors is completed at one of them. I grant that this is so at Olympia. But suppose we choose
five letters completely at random chi, sigma, zeta, kappa, and theta and we write four of these twice on eight lots, but the zeta only on the ninth, which is going to show us the bye. What will you do if you find the zeta first ? How can you pick out the competitor who holds it as the man for the bye, without going to all the others and finding no letter to corre-

spond to it ? You cannot, as you were just now, be sure from the alphabetical order.
343

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EPMOTIMOS
L^vciaTTOKpLTOv TOVTO ipcords.

ATKINOS
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AvKlve.

ATKINOi;
45
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yap dv ovtoj rdXrjdeg


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ye

ns

GvpL^ovXos
Trepi

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eGeoBai 344

<j>iXoGO<^Las

-qvTLva

(j^iXoGOi^riTeov ,

HERMOTIMUS
HERMOTIMUS

What you

ask

is difficult

to answer.

LYCINUS
look at the same question in another way. Suppose we wrote no letters on the lots, but signs and symbols, such as the many that the Egyptians use instead of letters ^dog- and lionheaded men. What then ? No, let us not use them, queer creatures that they are. No, let us write down simple, uniform symbols with as good a likeness as we can: human beings on two lots, two horses for another two, two cocks and two dogs, and for the ninth let the picture be a lion. Now, if at the beginning we find this lot with the picture of a lion, how will you be able to say that this is the one that gives the bye, unless you go to them all and compare whether another also has a lion ?

Come now,

HERMOTIMUS
I

can give you no answer, Lycjnus.


LYCINUS

Of course not if we wish to find


;

is no plausible answer. So, either the man who has the sacred chalice or the bye or the man who will best lead us to that city of Corinth, we shall of necessity go to everyone and make our research, trying them care-

there

and stripping and comparing. And it will be with only difficulty that we shall find the truth by this means,' and if anyone is likely to give me trustworthy advice on which philosophy to pursue, only
fully,

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L TLS irapaoTqodjJLevos

ov yap etr]. KaXov dv9pco7TOV XeyoL

rovTOV elvai koXXiotov dvOpwircov aTravrcov, ttl^ avrco, riv fjuT] ctStD/xcv on Trdvras arevoaLjjLev dv dvdpcjTTOVS a)paKV. LGOjg fxkv yap /cat ovros KoXos, et 8e Trdvrcov /caAAtcTros" ovk dv ;^ot elSevat fxr] lSojv dnavras. 'qfjuels Se ovk avro /cat fjLovov KaXov, dAAa rov KaXXlarov Seoficda' ovhev irXeov rovro TTenpaxdaL rjfXLV evpajfiev, ^v (XT] yap dyamjaofjiev oTTOicpS'qTTore iqyrjGOfieda. ov dXX Klvo rd aKporarov KaXat vrv)(dvrs ,
^-qrovpiev /caAAo?, direp dvdyKT] ev elvai^

EPMOTIMOE
46
'AXr]drj.

AYKINOi:

Tt ovv ;

7TTTeLpapLvov

^x^LS fioL riva v ^iXoGo^ia

ctVetv
/cat
*

aTrdcnqs

oSov
vtto

OS

rd re

ApicrroreXovs /cat /cttt rojv dXXojv /cttt Xeyo^FiTTLKovpov ^pvoLTTTTOV fieva elSws reXevrcbv filav etXero e^ diraowv 6hu)v dXrjOTJ re So/ct/xacras" /cat Trelpa [ladcov cos el ydp riva dyei evdv rrjs euSat/xorta? ; p,6v7)

Uvdayopov

/cat

IlXdrcovos

/cat

roLovrov

evpoifjuev,

vavaopbeda 7rpdyp,ara exovres.

EPMOTIMOE

Ov

pdSiOV,

cL

AvKLve, roLovrov dvBpa evpeZv.


^

av add. Jacobitz.

HERMOTIMUS
they all say will be he would not put my trust in them, as long as they are unacquainted with even one philosophy that one might be the best. If someone were to produce a handsome man and say that he was the most handsome of all men, we should certainly not believe him, unless we knew that he had seen all men. This man may well be handsome, but whether the most handsome of all he could not know, since he has not seen them all. And we are looking, not just for something beautiful, but for the most beautiful and if we do not find it, we shall not think that we have made any progress. For we are not going to be content with any chance beauty.
that
;

man who knows what


fall short,

the rest will

and

No, we are looking for the supreme beauty, and of that there can only be one.

HERMOTIMUS
True.
LYCINUS

Well then, can you name me a man who has tried every path in philosophy, who knows what Pythagoras, Plato, Aristotle, Chrysippus, Epicurus, and the rest, say, and, finally, has chosen one path out of them all, has proved it genuine, and has learnt by
experience that it alone leads straight to happiness? If we found such a person we should stop worrying.

HERMOTIMUS
It

would not be easy to discover such a person.


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ATKINOE
47

ov yap ^ Sri ovv 7Tpd^oixVy a> 'Ep/xortjLte ; aTTayopevriov oljxai inel [irjSevos rjyeixovos tolovrov s y TO irapov eviropovp^ev, dpa roSe Trdvrcov Kpdriorov ian /cat dcr^aAecrTarov, avrov KaaTOV dp^dpuevov hid irda-qs 7TpoaLpGOJS x^PV^^'' /cat eiTiOKi^acrd ai d/cptjScus" rd vtto Trdvrajv Xeyopieva ;

Tt

EPMOTIMOS
TLOV
ttXtjv Klvo pur) ivavo pLLKpa> Trpoadev cAcycs", (Ls ov pdhiov iavrov Kal Trerdaavra ttjv odoi^rjv iTTuSovra dvaSpapLLV avdig. ttcos ydp otov re Trdoas eireX-

"EotAcei' diTo
fj

y tovtcov.

Belv rds ohovs v rij TTpcorr), (hs


aopuevo)
;

<t>i]5,

Karaax^Or)-

ATKINOi:
AtVov Trapa ttJ? rpayLKTJg ^Apidhvrjg Xa^ovres elaip^ev is tov Xa^vpivdov eKaoroVy <l)s
/cat Tt

'Eyco aopLeOa

(Jot

(jipdacj.

to rod Srjaewg Klvo

puLpirj-

Xiv diTpaypLovaJS pLr]pv6pLvoL avro i^tevai.

EPM0TIM02
ts"

av ovv

rjpiv

ApLaOvrj yevoir

av

i]

irooev

tov

XlVOV V7TOpiJGOpLV ;

ATKIN02
Sokco ydp OVTLVOS XppiVOL i^eXdoipLV dv

Qdppet,

(L

iraXpe.

pLOi

evprjKevai

EPMOTIMOL
Tt ovv rovro eoriv ;
^

ov yap

a.TT.

Seager

ovk av an.

MSS.

HERMOTIMUS
LYCINUS

Then what shall we do, Hermotimus ? I do not think that we ought to give up because we have no such guide at the moment. Is it not the best and safest plan for everyone at the beginning to make his own way through every system and examine carefully the doctrines of

each

HERMOTIMUS

That seems to

meet

this stumbling-block in

before.

When

But we must watch lest we what you said a little we have once committed ourselves
follow.

we

How can sail, it is not easy to return. travel all the paths, if we are to be held fast in the first, as you say ?
and spread the
LYCINUS
will copy that stratagem of you. Theseus and take a thread from Ariadne in the play, and then enter every labyrinth. So, by winding it up we shall have no difficulty in getting out.
I will tell

We

HERMOTIMUS

Then who will be we get our thread ?

our Ariadne

And where

shall

LYCINUS

Never fear, my friend. I think I have discovered what to hold on to, if we are to get out.
HERMOTIMUS
Well, what?

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ATKINOS

OvK
cofxev

ifjiov

ipaj

oAAa rivo? rojv


*'

GO(f)a)v,
jjltj

ro

"
V7J(f>

/cat fiefJLVTjGO

aTnoreiv

r]v

yap

pablcos Tnarev-

OLKOvovres

aAAa

St/cacjTtAcaJ?

auro
oiv

770ta)/xv

aTToAtTTOvre? Kal roZs ^rJ9 Adyov, lgcjs

evpLapoJs

TOVS Xa^VpLvdoVS

K(f)VyOLfXV.

EPMOTIMOE

Eu

Aeyets", /cat

tovto

TTOLajfiev.

ATKINOL
48
TtVa 817 avrcoj/ Trpcorov eXdoLfiev av ; TOVTO fjLev ovSev Stotact; ap^apiVOL Se a^* Tj OTovovv olov OLTTO Yivdayopov r^v ovtcj tvxJ],
Efcp'.
CTTt

770(70)

dv
TO,

-x^povix}

otd/xe^a iKfjcadelv to.


^
jitot

Uvdayopov
irivTe eTrj
rots'

diravTa;
/cetva

/cat

/xtJ

cfatpet

/cat

ra

tt}?

iKava TpLOLKOVTa
LK0GL.

GicoTrrjs' otfULL, t

gvv

8'
/xtJ,

ow

ttcWc

dAAo, TTavTOJ? ye

EPMOTIMOS
0a)/xcy ovTOJS.

ATKINOS
Efra
c^tJs"

to) YIXoltwvl OeTeov Sr]XaSr]

TOoavTa

Tepa, TL

{JLTJV

Kal ^ApLGTOTeXcL OVK iXaTTO).

EPMOTIMOL

Ov

ydp,

ATKINOS
ye ov/cert ipT^GOfial g rroGa. olha yap TTapa gov aKovoas ort TCTTapaKOVTa fioyig
XpuCTtTTTTOi Se

iKavd.
1
/xt;

om. other MSS.

HERMOTIMUS
I will tell

the sages

Keep sober, and remember to disbelieve." For, if we are not prepared to believe everything we hear, but rather to act like judges and let the next man have his say, perhaps we may escape
:

you "

LYCINUS
it is

not mine,

it

comes from one of

the labyrinths with ease.

HERMOTIMUS
Good,
let us

do

this.

LYCINUS

Well then, which path should we travel first ? Or Let us begin anywill this make no difference? where with Pythagoras, for instance. If we do this, how long do we suppose we shall spend in learning all the doctrines of Pythagoras ? Please do

not leave out those five years of silence. Including the five years I suppose thirty years will be enough, or certainly a minimum of twenty.

HERMOTIMUS
Let us assume
so.

LYCINUS

Following that,

we must
and not

obviously give the same

number

to Plato,

less to Aristotle.

HERMOTIMUS
No, not
less.

LYCINUS

For Chrysippus, I shall not ask you how many. I know from what I have heard you say that forty will
hardly
suffice.

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EPMOTIMOS
OvTCDS.

ATKINOE
(hs Se i^TJ? ^FiTTLKOvpcp Kal rols oAAot?. ov TToAAd ravra ridiq^i, eKeWev yiddois av, r]V elal Srcol'/cot rj evvoriGrfs oaoc oySor^Kovrovreis

Etra

TTCLvra
COS"

^^TTLKOvpeiOL ctSeVat
fJLrjSev

T]

IIAaTCoi't/cot
t^S"

ofioXoyovvTes

l^y]

ra

iavrov alpeaeajs

cAcacTTOS",

firj,

ivhelv a(f>iGLV is ra fiadrniara. el Se dAAd XyavcrtTTTrds' y /cat ^ApcGToreXrjg /cat HXdrcov cf)aiv dv, /cat 7rp6 tovtojv 6 Sco/cpdrrys'
(fyavXorepos

ovSev

diravTas
tScVat Tt

o? KKpdyL TTpos avrcov, ovx ottcjjs fir} Trdvra, dAAd /xt^S' oAco? TOVTO fiovov OTt ou/c ofSev. XoyLcrcofjieda -^

ovv cf ^PXV^' ^t/co(Tt to) Hu^ayd/^a ridep,v, etra XlXdrojvi roGavd* erepa, elra e^rjs rots' dAAot?. ^ avvredevra ev K<f>aXaia) oui^ ravra TToora 817 yivoir dvy el 8e/ca fJLovas delfxev rds alpeoeis ev
(f)iXooo(f)ia ;

EPMOTIMOi:
*Y7Tp Sta/cd(7ta, (5 Af/ctvc.

ATKINOE
BouAct

ow
/cat

d^aipwixev ro

reraprov,
-^

djs

irevTJfXLoru

n^KOvra
oXov ;

e/cardv ctt^ t/cavd efrat,

rd

EPMOTIMOS
49

Avrog dv

elSelrjs

d[xeLVov

iyco Sc opcj rovro,


e/c

oXlyoL dv /cat ovro) Sid Traawv i^eXOoiev yeverrjs evdvg dp^dpuevoi.


1

on

877

Bekker

8'

MSS.

HERMOTIMUS
HERMOTIMUS
Just
so.

LYCINUS

and the rest. You can do not put these figures too high, when you consider the number of Stoics, Epicureans, and

Then Epicurus

in his turn,

realise that I

who are octogenarians, but who admit, each and every one, that they do not know all the teachings of their own sect, so as to have a thorough knowledge of its doctrines. If they did not admit it, then Chrysippus and Aristotle and Plato would, and even more would Socrates, a man not one whit their inferior he used to shout out to the whole world not only that he did not know everything, but that he knew absolutely nothing, or only this one thing that he did not know. Let us count them up from the beginning: we gave twenty to Pythagoras, the same to What would Plato, and to all the others the same. the total be if we assume only ten philosophical sects ?
Platonists,
:

HERMOTIMUS

More than two hundred

years, Lycinus.

LYCINUS
Shall

we take

and

fifty

off a quarter, and make a hundred years enough, or a whole half?

HERMOTIMUS
better than I. I see this few would get through them all even on this reckoning, if they began right from the day they were born.
:

You would know

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ATKINOL
Tt dv
^

ovv Trddoi

tls, c5 'Ep/xori/xe, el

roiovrov

eon TO

TTpdyfjua;

cbfjLoXoyr]fjLva

cos"

dvarpeTrreov eKelva tol rjSr] ovk dv rt? eXoiro ck ttoXXcov to


rj

peXnarov

dTrdvTCOv ; ws rov ye fjurj ovxl Tretpadels dvev TTeipas alpovjjLevov jxavreia jxdXXov rj Kpiaei ToXrjdes dvaCrjTOVvra ovx ovtojs iXeyojxev ;
.

EPMOTIMOL
Nat'.

ATKINOL
jStcovat rjfid?, el fxeXXoLixev ev re alpTJaeadai drrdvrcjov Trecpadevreg /cat eXofxevoL (jyiXoGo^rjoeLv /cat ^iXocTo^riaavTeg

riaaa roivvv dvdyKT) inl tootovtov

he ovtoj TTOirjaaL, ev UKorcp dv dv rv^oJiJiev TrpocrTTTaLovres ols (j>aoLV opxpipied^ /cat o Tt dv TTpwTOv is ras" ;\;etpa? eXOr), tovto etvai TO CrjTOVfjLevov VTroXapu^dvovTeg Sta to jJLrj elSevai roAr^^eV. et 8e /cat evpoLfiev oAAcos" /cara
evSaLfxovqcreLv.
irplv

rtva

aural, dyadrjv Tv^rji^ TTepnreoovTes ov^ e^ofiev jSejSatco? elSevau el eKeZvo eoTLV o ^rjTOVfiev ,
etvai TdXrjdeaTaTOV
.

TToXXd ydp eoTLv o/xota avTols, XeyovTa eKaoTOv

avTO

EPMOTIMOE
50
otSa ottojs evXoya fxev So/cct? /xot ov ^erptco? Xeyecv, drdp elpi^aeraL ydp TdXr)des di^tas" fie Sie^Lchv aura /cat dKpi^oXoyovpievos ovhev heov. lacjjs Se /cat eot/ca ovk eir* dyaOco e^eXr^XvOevai TTjixepov k ttjs ot/ctas" /cat e^eX9<j)v evTeTV)(y]-

*Q AvKLve, OVK

av add. Bekker.

354

HERMOTIMUS
LYCINUS

we do ? Must we go back on what we have already agreed


If that
is

the case, Hermotimus, what can

what we
Yes.

that no one can choose the best out of so many without trying them all ? agreed that to choose without putting to the test was to seek the truth more by divination than by judgment. Is that not

We

said

HERMOTIMUS
LYCINUS

Then there is every necessity for us to live all that time, if we are going first to make a good choice when we have made trial of them all, then to practise philosophy after we have made our choice, and finally to be happy after we have practised our philosophy. Until we do this we shall be dancing in the dark, as they say, and whatever we happen to stumble on, and whatever comes first into our hands, we shall assume to be what we are after because of our ignorance of the truth. In any case even if by some good fortune we happen to fall over the truth, we shall not be able to know for sure if it is what we are after. There are many things much alike, each
claiming to be the real truth.

HERMOTIMUS
Lycinus, that what you say is reasonable, but and I shall be honest you annoy me a great deal by this detailed examination and your unnecessary precision. It may be that it has done me
I feel,

no good in leaving home today and then meeting you.


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KVaL OOL, OS
OLTTopias
rrjs
/X TTXrjGiOV tJSt] TTJ^ cATTtSoS"
cf>pcov

fji^^Xr]Kas
ttjv

dXrjOeLas

OVTa LS dhvvarov airo^aivajv evpeaiv ircov ye rocfovroiv

heojxevrjv,

ATKINOi:

OvKovv, (L iralpey ttoXv StKaiorepov fiefxcfyoLO av ^ irore Tip TTarpt GOV MVKpdrL Kal rfj firjrpl tJtls c/caActro (oif yap olSa), ^ /cat ttoXv Trporepov ttj
(f)vai r)p,ajv

on

oe

fxr]

Kal
ovra.

piaKpopLov

edeGav,

Kara rov TlOcovov TToXverrj aXXd TTepUypaifjav p,r)

TrXela) ^LcovaL

to pLi^KLcrrov ercjv Kar6v dvdpojTTOV iyd) Se /Ltera oov GK7Tr6p,VOS evpov to k

Tov Xoyov diTOpdv.


E
51

PMOTIMOS
olB*

OvK, dXXd vppLGTTjg del av, Kal ovk


Tradwv pbLaelg <f)LXooo<f)Lav Kal is rovs ras dTTOOTKcoTTreLS.

6 ri

(f>iXoao(f>ovv-

ATKINOL
^^ppLOTLpLey Tjrts" fJiev rj dXijOeid iariv vpLLS av dp,Lvov elTTOire ol GO<j)oi, crv re Kal 6 BcSdaKoXos.
'^Q.

iyd) 8e TO y rooovrov otSa, (hs ov Trdvu rjSeld GTiv avTT] TOLS dKovovGLV, oAAa TTapevSoKLfjLeLraL
VTTO

TOV

ifjevSovs

Trapd

ttoXv.

evTrpoacoTroTepov

yap Kivo Kal hid tovto tJSlov, tj Se are pu-qSeu KipSrjXov iavTjj GwecSvla jxerd TTappiqGias StoAeycrat TOLS dvdpcoTTOLS Kal Sta tovto dxdovrat avrfj. Ihov yi TOL, Kal gv vvv dxOj} /xot TdXrjdes i^evpovri. TOVTOJV p,Td GOV Kal hrjXoJGaVTL oloJV 7Tpl ipajjxv iyo) re Kal gv, cos" ov ndvu paSlojv.
^

yjri.s

t Tis y.

35<^

HERMOTIMUS
was already near the fulfilment of my hopes, but you have thrown me into difficulties with your
I

since

demonstration that the search for truth it needs all those years.
LYCINUS

is

impossible

would be much fairer, my friend, to blame Surely your father, Menecrates, and your mother, whatever her name was (I do not know) or before them our
it

natures for having made you (unlike Tiof few years and short life, and for decreeing thonus) a hundred years as the longest life for man All I did was with your help to consider and discover the conclusions of the argument.

human

HERMOTIMUS

That is not so. You always lord it over us. I don't know what makes you hate philosophy and mock
philosophers.

LYCINUS

What
I

truth
I

better than
listen to

is,

Hermotimus, you wise men can say you and your master I mean. For
:

myself know thus much


;

truth
is

is

not

all

pleasant to

outfamed by falsehood. Falsehood presents a fairer face, and is therefore more pleasant, while truth knows no deceit and speaks with freedom to men, and for this they take
in estimation it
far

offence.

Look

at us

you now take offence with

me

for discovering the truth of these matters with your help and showing that what you and I are in love with
is

not easy at

all.

Suppose you had happened to be


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wcmep el dvSpidvros ipcjv irvyxavcs Kal a>ov rev^eaOai VTroXafi^dvcov dvdpojTTOV elvai, iyoj 8c
Xldog ^ ;^aA/co? clt] ifji'^vvGa npos ere ipa?, /cat rore Svorvovv p, etvaL (pov dv oavrcp Stort <J ovk elcov i^airardodat dXXoKora Kal dveXiTLara iXTTiCovra.
VTT*

KariSojv

wg

cvvolag

on dSwdrcDV

EPMOTIMOE
52

OvKOVV TOVTOf cS AvKLVe, <^7JS", COS" OV ^lXoGO<f)7)Tov rjp.LV, oAAa XPV dpyia Trapabihovras avrovs
IBiajTas Kara^LcovaL
;

ATKINOE
rovTO rJKovcTag ipov Xeyovrog ; cya> yap ovx CO? ov ^iXoao<j)7]reov <f)r]p,L, aAA' iireLTrep
TTOV
<f)iXoao<f>r]Teov

Kat

o8ot t TroXXal elauv

eirl (j>iXoao(f>iav

KdaT7] Kal dperrjv dyeiv (f)dGKOvoaiy rj 8' dX-qdrjg v avraXs dSrjXog, dKpi^rj TTOirjoaadai rrjv hiaipeoiv
.

dhvvarov hi ye rjpXv e<f)aiveTO ttoXXujv Trporedevrcov eXeadai ro dpLarov el pr} enl Trdvra tot ris Treipwpievog- elrd Tvcog p.aKpd j) Trelpa w(l)9r]. av he TTwg d^iOLS ; aunts' yap epTJaopai otco dv Trpcjrcp

ivTuyris, rovTCp eipr] eppLaiov TTOLTJaeral ae;

Kal

(jvyb(f)LXoGO(f>riaeLs

KdKelvos

EPMOTIMOi;
53

Kat

nva

ri gol dnoKpLvaLp-qv dv en, os ovre avrov Kpiveiv olov re elvai <f>'qs, 'qv prj (f>OLVLKOS errj

piwGT) TTOvras ev kvkXco nepucov Kal TreipcLpbevos

ovre rols TTpOTreTreLpapevoig TTiGreveiv d^iols ovre TOIS TToXXoiS 7TaiVOVGLV Kal piapTvpoxjGiv ;

3S8

HERMOTIMUS
in love with a statue and, thinking it to be human, hoped to win it, and suppose I saw it was stone or bronze and told you out of friendship that your love was impossible, you would in that case too think that I

when you hoped


your reach.

was an enemy, because I had not let you be deceived for what was monstrous and beyond

HERMOTIMUS
say, Lycinus, that we must not study philosophy, but give ourselves up to idleness and live out our lives as laymen ?

Then

this is

what you

LYCINUS

me say that ? What I say not that we must not study philosophy, but that since we must, and as there are many paths to philosophy and each one claims that it leads to virtue, and the true one is not clear, we must be But with so many before us careful in our choice. we saw it was impossible to choose the best unless we were to visit and test every path. Then the trial was seen to be somewhat lengthy. Now what do you think? I will ask you again will you follow the first guide you light on and join him in his study while he takes you for a lucky gift from
When
have you heard
is

heaven ?

HERMOTIMUS

when you say that no one can judge for himself, unless he lives as long as a phoenix and goes the full round testing all the philosophers, and when you do not see fit to trust those who have made the test before you or the
could I give you now,

What answer

many who

give their praise and their testimony

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ATKINOE
TtVas"
<^'i7S'

rovs

ttoXXovs

elBoros

/cat

7T7Tl-

pajxevovs airdvrcxiv ; el yap rts" tolovtos icrnv, LKavog jJLOLy /cat ets", /cat ovKerc ttoXXwv Sei^cret. ovSev tl to ttXtjQos 'qv Se Tovs ovK elSoras AeyT^S", avTiov TTpocrd^eral fie 7tlgtVlv dxpi' olv 'q fxrjSev rj v elSores irepl diTdvrcjv dnocjialvojVTai.

EPMOTIMOE
rdXr)ds /caretScs", dvoTjTOL aTTavres oaoi (j)iXooo<j)ovoiv.

Mouo? 8e

cru

ol

Se

oAAot

ATKINOS
TTpoTidrjfjLL

KaratpevSr) /xou, TTTj ifxavTov

c5

*E/3/>toTt/x,

Xeywv
r^

cus"

iyoj

Twv dX\oiv

rdrTO) oXcos

V Tols CtSoOrt, /cat OX) fJLVr]lJ,OVVLS (Lv (f)r]Vy OVK avTOS ctSeVat rdXrjdes virep tovs oAAou? Stareti^o/xc-

vos oAAa /xcra ttclvtcdv auro dyvocti^ o/xoAoycov.

EPMOTIMOi:
54
'AAA',
Xp'fjvai,
(x>

AvKive,

TO

/cat

TreipadijvaL

[lev eirl ndvTag ojv (f>a(Ti /cat to


rj

eXdelv
firj

dv

ovtojs, evXoyov tcrcos', TO he TTJ TTelpa eKdoTj] ToaavTa eTTj aTToStSovat, TTayyeXoLOVy oyairep ovx oTov re ov citt-' oXiycuu
oAAcos-

eXeadai to jSeArtov

KaTapiadelv Ta TrdvTO.. ifiol Se /cat Trdw pdSiov etvai SoKeZ to toiovtov /cat ov ttoXXtjs SLaTpLprjs heofxevov. ^acrt ye toi tojv TrXacrTcov rtva, OetStav owx^ fJLOvov XeovTOS ISovTa dir^ eKeivov otfJLai, dvaXeXoylodai, tjXlkos dv 6 ttols Xecov yevoiTO /car

360

HERMOTIMUS
LYCINUS

many who know and have tested any such person really exists, one is quite enough for me, and there will be no need of many. But if you mean those who do not know, the number of them will in no way induce me to trust them, as long as they make declarations about all
are these
If

Who

them

all ?

the systems

when they know nothing


HERMOTIMUS

or only one.

alone have seen the truth, study philosophy are fools.

You

all

the others

who

LYCINUS

You wrong me, Hermotimus, when you

say that

somehow put myself before other people or in general rank myself in some way with those who know. You do not remember what I said. I did not maintain that I knew the truth more than other people. No, I
admitted that like
all

men

was ignorant of

it.

HERMOTIMUS
Well, Lycinus, the obligation to go round them all, making trial of what they say, and the superiority of this method of choosing are perhaps reasonable, but it is quite ridiculous to spend so many years on each test, as if it were not possible to get a thorough knowledge of the whole from a scrutiny of a small This sort of thing seems to me to be quite part. easy, needing little time. At least, they say that some sculptor (Phidias, I think) saw only the claw of a lion and from it estimated the size of the whole animal on the assumption that it was modelled on the
361

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a^iav Tov

ow^os

OLvaTrXaaOcLg.

Kal

crv

Se,

-fjv

rig

aoc X^^P^ iJLOVTjv avBpcjTTOV Sel^rj to aAAo crcD/xa KaTaKaXvijjag y clgt), olfxaL, aurt/ca on dvOpcoiTos

ion TO
/cat

KeKaXyfJUfievov ,

kov

firj

ro rrdv

crcD/za lStjs.

Toiwv ra

fiev KecjyaXaicoSr) (Lv a7TavTS Xiyovai,

paSiov Karafiadelv iv oXiyo) fjuopicp -qpuepag, to he V7TpaKpLp9 TOVTO Kal fjbaKpds TTJg i^TdaU)S ^ Trdw dvayKalov is rrjv atpecrtv tov SeofjLCVOV ov cart Kplvai Kal an iKelvojv. oAA' ^cXtIovos,

ATKINOS
55
IlaTrat, (L ^FtpfJuoTLfxe, ca? Icrxvpo. raura ipr]Kas KaiToi iyoj OLTTO Ta)V fJipcov ciftcDv ra oXa elSevau.
TO,

ivavTia aKOvoag pLefivrjfjLaL cog 6 /xev to oXov dv Kal to fxipos, 6 8e p,6vov to [lipog ovKTV Kal TO oXov. ovTCOs Kal fxoi Tohe dnoKpLvai' 6 OctStas" dv 7roT ISojv owxcl Xeovtos eyvcu dv
elSojg elSelrj

OTi

XeovTos ioTTLV, el pLJ] icjpaKei iroTe XeovTa oXov ; t) oi) dvdpwTTOV X^^P^ I8d)v eax^g dv cIttclv

on

dvdp(x)7Tov

icTl

pLrj

TrpoTCpov

elScbg

/xr^Se

aiyas ; tj jSouAct iyd) diTOKplvixypiai virep oov ra ye dvayKala otl ovk dv etx^g ; cuare KLvSvvevet 6 OctSta? dirpaKTog aTTeXrjXvdevai pidTr^v dvanXdaas tov XeovTa' ovhev ^ yap TTpos TOV Alowgov wTTTai Xeycov. ^ ncog ra) TavTa iKelvoig ojLtota; piev yap Oet8ta /cat aol ovhev dXXo tov yvcjopl^etv ra p^epr] atrtov rjv t] to elSevai, to oXov dvOpojirov Xeycj Kal XeovTa- iv

iwpaKcbg

dvOpcDvov ;

tl

1
2

ov edd.
oStttoi

Kal

MSS.
:

anon, conjecture

co irat

MSS.

I.e., irrelevant.

to have been upbraided

Epigenes of Sicyon, a tragic poet, is said by his audience for introducing into

3^2

HERMOTIMUS
You too, if you were shown scale as the claw. only the hand of a man, the rest of the body being hidden, would, I suppose, know at once that the hidden figure was a human being, even though you did not see the whole body. So in a fraction of a day it is easy to acquire a good knowledge of the essential points of all the systems, and this precise enquiry which calls for lengthy research is quite unnecessary for choosing that which is preferable. No, you can make a judgment from samples.
same
LYCINUS

Goodness, Hermotimus, how sure you sound when you affirm that you can know the whole from the parts! And yet I remember hearing just the opposite, that if you know the whole you know the part as well, while if you know only the part, you cannot then know the whole as well. Tell me this would Phidias when he saw the lion's claw ever have known that it belonged to a lion, if he had never seen a whole lion ? If you saw a human hand, could you have said that it belonged to a man if you had not previously knowTi or seen a man ? Why do you not I to give the only possible answer for answer ? you, that you could not have said it? It looks as though Phidias has retired unsuccessful and has modelled his lion in vain clearly he is saying what has nothing to do with Dionysus ^ Or what comparison is there? Both Phidias and you yourself had no other means of recognising the parts than your knowledge of the whole I mean the whole man
:

Am

the worship of Dionysus themes which had nothing to do with the god.

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jjLepovs
(I)S

OLOV TTJ Htcolkojv, ttcos dv aiTO rod Kal ra Xolttol tSois ; 'q ttcos ov aTTO(j>aivoio KoXd; ov yap olada to oXov ov fieprj iKclvd

iarvv.

^"

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ridevrai Kal rd roiavra) ovrojorl p.v dKovaavrag ovSev etSeVat Se dTTO<j>rivaoB ai paSuov Kal epyov

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GLV,
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rd

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Keiva Kal a ooi So/cet pdhia Kal evfiadrj ; vvv 8e pudvreojs ot/xat Se-qaci gol KdvravOa irpos rrjv

ws

atpeaiv rtov Kpcurrovajv, el p,T] dvexi) rr)v SiarpiPijv dKpi^cJJS eXeaOai, avros diravra Kal oXov

eKaarov Karavo-qoas. eTTiropLOS ydp avrr) yevoir ovK exovaa TrepnrXoKds oz)S' dva^oXds, el pieraareiXdp,evos rov pidvriv dKovoas rdv Ke^a"
dv, Xalojv dirdvrcov G<f)ayLdIl,oLo c^* eKdarois'^ diraXXd^ei ydp ae 6 Beos pivpioiv irpayp^drcuv Sel^as ev
rep

57

rod lepeiov TJirari driva aoi aipereov, Et 8e ^ovXei, Kal oAAo ri dirpaypioveGrepov
p,r)

VTToB-qaofiai gol, cog


^

lepela KaraBvr)s ravrl koI

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1

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:

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eKaanrrjs

pieyaXopiLaBcov
ypapipidri.a

oAAa es KdXinv epLpaXcbv


iKaoTOiS edd.

MSS.

HERMOTIMUS
and lion
;

and

how can you by knowing

in a philosophy (the Stoic, for instance) a part see the rest as well ?

? You see, you do not know the whole of which they are parts. As to your contention that it is easy in a small part of a day to hear the essentials of all philosophies (I suppose you mean their principles and ends, their views of the gods and the soul, who say that every-

How can you prove the rest beautiful

thing

is
**

corporeal,

who

also exist, the fact that

others

the beautiful

assert that immaterial things " some identify pleasure," "

with goodness and happiness,

and so

on), after a hearing of this sort it is easy and no trouble to state the facts ; but to know which is the

is telling the truth will surely require not part of a day but many days. If not, why on earth have they all written books by the hundreds and thousands on these very subjects, to prove the truth, I suppose, of these very parts, those few parts, which you think easy and soon learnt ? Here too, I fancy, you will have need of a prophet to help you choose the best, unless you spend time on accurate selection and make a personal and detailed study of all and everything. It would certainly be a short cut with no complications or delays if you sent for a prophet, listened to the essentials of them all, and sacrificed for each one the god will save you a great deal of trouble if he reveals in the victim's liver the choice
:

one that

you must make. I will, if you like, suggest another, less troublesome way, without this slaughter of victims or sacrifice to

priests
*

anybody or calling in one of these expensive put some tablets into a pitcher with the name
Lehmann
:

dvaid^ris Tcp

dvoLd^rj to)

dvaias

tprjTOiv

V.

THE WORKS OF LUCIAN


e^ovra rcov
TToiha
avrj^ojv a/x^t^aA'^ riva npooreXdovTa Trpos Trjv koXttiv aveXeodai 6 tl av Trpabrov vtto rrjv X^^P^ eXdrj ra)v ypajLt/xartcov, kol to Xoittov
T(x)v

(f)LXoa6(f)a>v

eKaorov rovvofia KeXeve

Kara rov Xa^ovra Klvov ogtls av

fj (f>iXoa6<f)L.

EPMOTIMOE
58

TavTL jiivy (1> AvKivy j3co/xoAo;^tK'a kol ov Kara a. av tW piOL' tJSt] 7tot olvov iTTpLOj avTos ;

ATKINOE
Kat fidXa
TToXXaKis,

EPMOTIMOE
^A/3* ovv 7TpLi^Ls aiTavTas v kvkXo) tovs iv rij TToXet KaTT'qXovs dnoyevopievos /cat TrapapdXXojv

Kal dvT^rdC(x>v rovs otvovs ;

ATKINOE
OuSa/xcDs".

EPMOTIMOE
p^/ai^arai

X/OT) yap olpLol aoi roi Trpwrco ivTVXOVTL d7TO^poBai.

kol d^tto

ATKINOL
Ni)

Ma,
EPM0TIM02
diTo
ye.

Kat
av

rod oXtyov Klvov yevjiaros e^X^^


o olvos iartv ;

L7rtv OTTotos" aTra?

ATKINOS
Efj^ov yap.

EPMOTIMOE
cAeyes"

Et
366

Se

'EttciSi^

TvpoaeXOwv rolg Ka7n]XoLs, kotvXtjv TTplaadai jSouAo/xat, h6r /xot, cS


St)

HERMOTIMUS
of each of the philosophers on them, and tell a boy a young lad with both parents living to go to the pitcher and pick out whichever tablet he first touches with his hand then all you have to do is to study the philosophy of the one whose lot he has

picked.

This
tell

is
:

me

HERMOTIMUS mere burlesque and not like you. Now you have you ever bought wine yourself.''
LYCINUS

Of course, many

a time.

HERMOTIMUS
all the wine-merchants of the city in turn, tasting and comparing and judging the wines ? LYCINUS

Then did you go round

Not
I

at

all.

HERMOTIMUS
think that you must take away the come to that is good and satisfactory.
LYCINUS
Certainly.
first

wine you

HERMOTIMUS
Could you have said from that brief tasting what was the quality of the whole ?
LYCINUS

Yes.

HERMOTIMUS had approached the wine-merchants and you " said: I wish to buy half a pint of wine; each of
If

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.

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rod vharos ;

ATKINOE
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av

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EPMOTIMOi;

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rai^ra

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ri Set c/c-

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59
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EPMOTIMOi:

Hojs TOVTO
"Ort

<f)r] ;

ATKINOE
TTpdyfjLa Xa^wv /cat avOofjioXoyovfievov aura) ra otvov tov (XTraort ct/caCcts" yvwpipLOV

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/cat

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/card TOVTO [xovov, otl /cat ot <j>LX6ao<j)Oi aTTohihovrat rd p,a9riiiaTa oiGirep ol /caTTT^Aot /ccpacrd/xet^ot ye ot TToAAot /cat SoAcocravre? /cat KaKO[iTpovin-es

t ^17

Lehmann

117

MSS.

etr),

ei

/Lti7

Solanus.

368

HERMOTIMUS
please, the whole jar to drink, so that have drained it all I may learn who has the " if better wine and who is to receive my custom had said do not think that would this, you they you have laughed at you, and if you troubled them further, you might have had a jug of water poured on you ?

you give me,

when

LYCINUS
I

do think

so,

and

should deserve

it.

HERMOTIMUS

Apply the same consideration to philosophy. Why drain a butt when the tasting of a little can indicate the quality of the whole ?
LYCINUS

How
you
us
:

And how slippery you are, Hermotimus But you have helped glide through my fingers
! !

fallen into the

you thought you had got away, but you have same net.
HERMOTIMUS

What do you mean ?


LYCINUS

take an object which is quite self-evident and which is known to everyone, wine, and you compare to it things that are unlike and the object of universal I certainly cannot dispute, they are so uncertain.
say how in your view philosophy and wdne are comparable, except perhaps at this one point that philosophers sell their lessons as wine-merchants their wines most of them adulterating and cheating and

You

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ratp.

dXXa

EPMOTIMOE
60
YicL>9

yap ov ;
AYKINOS:

Ylojs odv olov T aoi 7Jv drro ov fxaros etSeVat rd irdvra ;

rov Trpwroo yev-

aAAa aet erepa

/catva

iirl

yap rd avrd yc, /catvot? eXeycro, ovx

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avro

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^

yevoaio avrov
ere

/cat

oTrdoaLS

fjLLKpov

auTt/ca
T7j

7Tdvoo(f)ov
:

yevrjoopievov

tKomv

Solanus

eiKos

en MSS.

HERMOTIMUS
giving false measure. Now let us examine your logic. You say that all the wine in a butt is the same, the whole measure that is certainly not unreasonable. Now if you care to draw ever so little of it and take a taste, you say you would know at once the quality of the whole butt; this too follows and I would not deny it. Look at what comes next: do philosophy and these who, like your teacher, study philosophy say the same things to you on the same topics every day, or different things on different days? It is quite clear, my friend, that there are many different topics you would not have stayed
; ;

with him twenty years like an Odysseus in your wanderings and journeying, if he had said the same things all the time, but you would have been satisfied with one hearing.

HERMOTIMUS

Of course.
LYCINUS

Then how could you have known the whole from


just the
first taste? There were not the same, but always new things being said on new subjects, unlike wine, which is always the same. So, my friend, unless you drink the whole butt, your tipsiness has been to no purpose god seems to me to have hidden the good of philosophy right down at the bottom beneath the very lees. You will have to drain it all to the end or you will never find that divine drink for which I think you have long thirsted. But you imagine it to be such that, if you were but to taste and draw just a drop, you would at once become all;

dXXcos uedvcov TrepUi Fritzsche

/cat

dXXojs usOvwv

rrepi-neLS

MSS.

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waTTp <j>acnv iv AeA^ots" Trjv irpo^avTiv, e-neihav tov Upov vdfjLarog, evOeov evdvs yiyveadaL kol
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VTTCp

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EPMOTIMOE
OvSapiOJS.

ATKINOE
roivvv ovhk <j>iXoGo^iav d(j)* ivog ojv (J)t]Gi TiS TOV TTpWTOV, fJidOoL dv dlTaGaV OTTO la ioTLV ov yap V TL "^v wGncp 6 olvog, wnep gv avTrjv dTTiKdt,is d^LOJV o/xotav elvai tco yevfxaTiy to he eTCpolov
heofjuevov.

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372

HERMOTIMUS
wise, as, they sa,y, the prophetess at Delphi becomes inspired as soon as she drinks of the sacred spring and gives her answers to those who consult the oracle. But it seems it is not so you had drunk over half the butt, and you said that you were still at the beginning.
:

Perhaps philosophy is more Uke this still keep your butt and your dealer, but no wine rather take an assortment of cereals wheat on top, then beans, then barley, and, beneath the barley, lentils, then chickpeas, and other kinds of seeds as well. You come in wishing to buy some of the cereals. He has taken out a pinch of the wheat from where the wheat was and has given you a sample in your hand to examine. Now could you say by looking at that sample whether the peas were pure, the lentils tender, and the beans not completely empty ?
:

HERMOTIMUS

Not

at

all.

LYCINUS
neither could you learn the nature of all philosophy from the first thing someone says. For it is not really one substance like the wine to which you compare it, claiming that it is like the sample. No, we have seen that there is variation in it, for which a cursory examination will not do. If you buy bad wine you risk a couple of pence, but to rot in the common herd oneself, as you said in the beginning, is very serious. Besides, to insist on drinking the whole butt in order to buy half a pint is to cause loss to the wine-merchant with your unbelieving tasting. But in philosophy there would be

Then

no such

loss.

No, however much you drink, the butt


373

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374

HERMOTIMUS
is

loss.

just as full and the wine-merchant will not suffer For, in the words of the proverb, the more you

draw the

The case is the reverse fuller it becomes. of the butt of the Danaidae that would not hold what was put into it but let it run away at once. Take
some away from philosophy, however, and what
left increases.
is

But I want to tell you another, similar thing, about sampling philosophy, and do not think that I am being blasphemous about it if I say that it is like a deadly poison hemlock, for example, or aconite, or some other such. Not even they, deadly though they are, will kill, if you scrape off a tiny piece with the tip of your nail and taste that. No, if the quantity, method of consumption, and mixture are wrong, you can take it and not die. You claimed, however, that the tiniest piece was quite enough to give you a complete knowledge of what the whole was like.

HERMOTIMUS
Granted, Lycinus. What next? Must we live a hundred years and have all that trouble ? Is there no other way of studying philosophy ?
LYCINUS

No, Hermotimus. Nor need we complain if what you said at first is true that life is short and art is long. And now I don't understand why you are distressed if you cannot become a Chrysippus or a
:

Plato or a Pythagoras today before sunset.

HERMOTIMUS

You hedge me
a corner, although

round, Lycinus, and drive


I

me

into

have done you no harm.

Clearly 375

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av Se wXiycoprjoras eavrov ttiXikovtos

cov.

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EPMOTIMOS
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ATKINOS
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Kara-

ATKINOL
64

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^

alrkdaadat Jacobitz

amaa^ot MSS.

HERMOTIMUS
you are doing this from spite, because I have made progress in my studies while you have neglected yourself at your age too.

LYCINUS

Do you know what? Take no notice of my ravings, but leave me to my silly chatter, and you
go on your way as you are and finish what you decided to do in the first place.

HERMOTIMUS

You are so compulsive


any choice unless
I

that you do not let


all.

me make

try

them

LYCINUS

Well, you thing else.


to

be blaming the innocent, as the poet says ^ no other argument comes to your aid to release you from the compulsion, am at present a helpless captive. But look, the argument is going to bring much greater pressure to bear on you, but perhaps you will ignore that and blame me.
to
;

me

may be sure that I shall never say anyWhen you call me compulsive you seem

for I myself, as long as

HERMOTIMUS

How ?
to say.

should be surprised
LYCINUS

if it

had anything

left

It says that to inspect and to investigate everything is not sufficient to give you the power to choose

the best.
lacking.

No, the most important thing


1

is

still

Homer, 11,

11, 654.

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1

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MSS.

378

HERMOTIMUS
HERMOTIMUS

What

is

that

LYCINUS

dear sir, a critical, examining faculty, a quick and a keen and impartial intellect. You must have this to make a judgment on matters of this kind, or you will have looked at everything in vain. The argument says that not a little time is to be allowed in a matter like this and everything put before you you are not to rush ahead, but go slowly and make frequent inspections before you choose, having no regard for the age of each speaker, nor for his dress, nor for his reputation for wisdom. No, you must imitate the court of the Areopagus, which sits in judgment at night in the dark, so that it has no regard for who is speaking, but only for what is said. Then it is that you will be able to make a sound choice and practise philosophy.
wit,
;

My

HERMOTIMUS

You mean after death. From what you have said no man would live long enough to study everything and observe accurately every detail, and then, after observation, judge, and, after judging, choose, and
after choosing practise philosophy; for this is the only way, you say, in which the truth could be

discovered.

LYCINUS

is

Hermotimus, that even this No, I think we deceived ourselves when we thought we had found safety: we have found no safety at all. We are like fishermen who often when they have let down their nets feel someI

hesitate to tell you,

not enough.

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EPMOTIMOE
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ATKINOS
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HERMOTIMUS
thing heavy, and so haul in expecting a huge catch of fish then when they are tired with their pulling they see a stone or a jar packed with sand. I am
;

afraid

we have hauled up something


HERMOTIMUS

like that.

don't

know what

these nets of yours

mean

have certainly caught

me

you

in

them.

LYCINUS
If anybody try to get out. swim, you do thanks to god's help.

Then

we go round

all the sects eventually complete our enquiry, I don't think it will even yet be certain whether any one of them has what we are looking for, or whether all alike are ignorant of it.

knows how to Now, even if making our tests, and

HERMOTIMUS

What do you mean ? Not one


LYCINUS
It
all
is

of

them ?

debatable.

Do you

think

it

impossible that

are wrong, and that the truth

may be something

different,

something which none of them has yet

found ?

HERMOTIMUS

How

could that be possible

LYCINUS

In this way. Suppose our true number to be twenty. Now let someone take twenty beans in his hand, and then close it and ask any ten people how many beans he has in his hand. Suppose one man
381

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382

HERMOTIMUS
guesses seven, another five, another thirty, some other ten or fifteen, in short every one differently nevertheless it is possible for someone by some chance to guess the truth, isn't it ?
;

HERMOTIMUS
Yes.
LYCINUS

Yet

it is

not at

all

impossible for everyone to guess

numbers and for all these numbers to be wrong and untrue, and for not one of them to say that the man has twenty beans. Do you agree ?
different

HERMOTIMUS
It is

not impossible.
LYCINUS

In the same way, then, all those who study philosophy are trying to find out what happiness is, and each one says it is something different pleasure, beauty, and all the other things they say about it. Very likely one of these things is happiness, but it is not unlikely that it is something quite different from every one of them. We seem to have gone in the wrong direction, hastening to the end before we have found the beginning. We should first, I think, have ascertained that the truth has been discovered, and that one or other of the philosophers really has knowledge of it. Then the next step would be to find out whom to believe.

This

is

even if even then really be able to discover the truth.

HERMOTIMUS what you are saying, then, Lycinus, that we go through all philosophy, we shall not
383

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ii add. edd.

HERMOTIMUS
LYCINUS

Don't ask me, my good sir. Again, ask the argument. Perhaps it would answer you that we cannot
as yet discover the truth, as long as
it is

uncertain
it is.

whether truth

is

one of the things they say

HERMOTIMUS
shall never find it or be have to give up philosophy philosophers. and live a layman's life. At least it follows from what you say that philosophy for a human being is impossible and unattainable. For you say that who-

From what you say we

We

shall

ever is going to practise philosophy must first choose the best philosophy, and the choice Avould be correct in your view only if the truest were chosen after going through the whole field. Then you calculated the number of years required for each and went beyond all bounds, stretching it to cover several generations, so that the search for truth exceeded any man's lifetime. Finally you show that even this is not beyond doubt when you say it is not certain whether any of the old philosophers found the truth or not.

LYCINUS

Could you, Hermotimus, guarantee on oath that they have found it ?

HERMOTIMUS
No,
I

could not.
LYCINUS

Yet how many other things have


omitted which
VOL. VI.
call for

I
!

purposely
385
O

long examination

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386

HERMOTIMUS
HERMOTIMUS

What

sort of things

LYCINUS

Don't you hear some of the Stoics or Epicureans or Platonists say that, while some of them know all the doctrines, others do not, although in other respects they are quite reliable ?

HERMOTIMUS
True enough.
LYCINUS

Then do you not think


to separate

it

a very laborious business

and differentiate those who know from those who do not know but say they know ?
HERMOTIMUS
Very.
LYCINUS

Then if you are going to know the best Stoic you must go and make trial of most of them if not all,
and take the best as your teacher, first training yourself and acquiring the power of criticism in such matters, to prevent your preferring inadvertently an inferior one. Just think how much time it needs
!

out on purpose not to annoy you, and yet in matters of this sort I think it is the one most important requirement in such matters I mean where there is uncertainty and doubt. And this is the only sure and firm hope you have for truth and its discovery. There is no hope whatsoever apart from the ability to judge and separate the false from the true, and like assayers of silver to distinguish the
I left this

387

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388

HERMOTIMUS
sound and genuine metal from the counterfeit. Were you to come to your examination of the doctrines with some such power and skill, all would be well if not, you can be sure that nothing will save you from being dragged by the nose by them all or from following a leafy branch in front of you as sheep do you will be like water spilt on a table, running whithersoever someone pulls you by the tip of his finger, or indeed like a reed growing on a river bank, bending to every breath of wind, however slight the breeze that blows and shakes it. So find a competent teacher to give you instruction in demonstration and the art of distinguishing matters in dispute, and you will certainly find an end to your difficulties. At once the best will be clear to you, truth and falsehood will be proved under the scrutiny of this art of demonstration, and you will make a sound choice, and having made your judgment you will practise philosophy, and you will have won your thrice-desired happiness and live with her, possessing all good things in one package.
;
;

HERMOTIMUS
Well done, Lycinus What you say and full of great hopes. We must look
!

is

far better

for a

man,

it

us able to judge and to distinguish and able in the highest degree to prove a What follows will be easy now and no trouble, case. and it will not need much time. Now I am indeed grateful to you for finding this excellent short-cut

seems,

who

will

make

for us.
^

evpoLS Belinus

evprjs

MSS.

{evpeis T).

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ATKINOS
H'^^ elScir^s eLKorws ovhev yap aoL i^evprjKOJS eSet^a, cos" iyyvrepoj g iXTTibos, TO 8e 77oAu TTOppojrepaj TTOL-qcreiv T7J9
fjLTjv

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TTporepov "^jxev /cat /caret rov^ " TroAAd fjLoxOvcravTcs oaolcos TTapoLfMiaCofxevovs
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(JjXV.

EPMOTIMOi:
Ilws Tovro
<f>r)S ;

irdvu

yap

XvTrrjpov

tl

/cat

SvaeXTTL ipeXv cot/ca?.

ATKINOS
70
"Ort, iralpe, Kav evpcojjLev vmaxvovpLevov TLva ctScVat T aTToSetftv /cat dXXov SiSd^CLV, ovk avTLKa, ot/xat, Trtorreucro/xev avrcp, dAAa rtva ^TfTT^aofiev Tov KpZvai hvvdpievoVy el dXrjdrj 6 dvrjp
CO

XdycL.
rjjjuv

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et

dXXov CTnyvayfiovos olpuai, Set. rjfxets yap nodev dv etSetT^jLtcv Sta/cptVetv top' dpiara Kplvai Svvdfievov ; opag ottol rovro diroreiverai /cat cos" aTre,

pavrov ytyvcrat,
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aTroSet^ets" ai^rcts", SvvdpLevov; oTrdcra? otdv re evpiGKeiVy d/x^tajSr^rou/ieVas' o0t at yow TrXeXarat, /cat fjurjSev exovoas ^e^aiov. avrcov 8t* dAAcuv dfx<f)La^r]rovixev(x)v Treldeiv rjijuds jStdCovrat elhevai, at he rols Trdvv TTpoStjXoLg rd d(f)aveorara Gwdirrovoai ovhev avrols KOivcuvovvra

crrrjvai irore CTict /cat rds"

/cat

KaraXr](f)6rjvaL

dnoSei^eLg ofxajs avrojv elvai (f)daKovaLV, wanep t Tt? ototro dnohei^eLV elvaL OeovSt Stort jScojLtot avrcbv ovres <f)aivovraL. ctyore, c5 'Ep/xdrt/xc, ovk

390

HERMOTIMUS
LYCINUS

No, you certainly have no reason to be grateful to me yet. I have discovered and told you nothing to bring you nearer to your hope. In fact we are much farther away than we were before, and as the " a deal of toil and we're where we proverb has it were."

HERMOTIMUS

What do you mean ? This seems to and pessimistic statement.


LYCINUS

me

a hurtful

Because,

who
tion
else

my

professes

even good knowledge of the


friend,

if

we

find

someone

art of demonstra-

and the ability to teach it to another, not, I fancy, believe him at once, but look for
truth.

we

shall

someone

who can determine if the first man is speaking the And even if we find this one, we are still not clear whether our arbiter knows how to distinguish
the

man whose judgment


I

is

correct or not,

and

for

him too

For how could we ourselves know how to choose the one able to judge best ? Do you see how this goes on to For you infinity and cannot stop and be arrested ?
fancy
shall

we

need another

arbiter.

will see that all the proofs

you can find are disputable and have no certainty. Most of them try to compel our belief on a basis of assumptions equally open to dispute, while the rest tack the most obscure and quite unrelated speculations on to self-evident truths and then say that the latter prove the former, as if
a

man

we

thought to prove the existence of gods because see their altars. So, Hermotimus, we seem to
391

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ofS'
OTTOJS

Kaddirep ol v kvkXco Oeovres


iTraveXrjXvOaiJLGV,

ttI

rrjv

avrrjv

apx^v Kal airopiav

EPMOTIMOL
71

tov fxe elpydacOy <L Avklvc, dvOpaKas [iol Q-qoavpov dTro(f)T]vag , Kal cos" olkV dTToXelrai /xot rd Tocravra err] koX 6 /ca/xaros" o ttoXvs.

Ofa

ATKINOE
'AAA',
evvorjoris
cS

*Ep/xoTt/x, TToXi)

eXarrov dvtdar), ^u

on

ov jxovos e^co

dyadcbv, dXXd rrdvres

/xeVct? rcov eXinodivrcjv (Lg eiros elireZv irepl ovov


.

ris dpa oKids ixdxovrau ol ^iXooo<f>ovvr r] hvvaiTO hi iKLVO)v aTrdvrcjv ')(Oipr\Gai a)V <f>7]v ; o7Tp dSvvarov Kal avros Aeyct? etvat. vvv Sc

opbOLov

fJiOL

So/cets" TTOieZv

alriipro rrjV rv-xrjv,

on

purj

wGTrep et ri? SaKpvoi /cat Svvairo dveXOelv i? rov

ovpavov,
drro

^vdios vnoSvs ets" rqv ddXarrav KuTrpov dvahvaerai, r] on jxtj dpdelg TTTTjvcs avdr^piepov dird rrjs 'EAAaSos" ets" 'IvSous" reXeX. rd S' ainov ttJs" Auttt^s", on rjXTTLKet, of/xat, 'q dvap rrork Ihojv roiovrov t) avrds avrcp dvarrXdaas, ov rrporepov i^erdaas et (j)iKrd eu^erat Kal Kard rrjv dvdpcjTTOV (j)vaLV. Kal Srj Kal ere, cL cratpe, TroXXd Kal 9avp,a(jrd oveipoiroXovvra vv^as d Xoyos drrd rov vttvov eKOopelv eiroi-qoev etra dpyi^r] avrw en jjloXls rovs d(f)6aX[jLovs dvoLyojv Kal rov vttvov ov pahlojs diTOGeiopievos v<f)* TrdaxovGi Se avrd kqI ol rrjv rjhovfjs (Lv icjpas.
r)

on

fxr)

St/ceAta?

is

Kvr)v jjLaKapiav iavrolg dvarrXdrrovreg , rjv [jLera^v TrXovrovGiv avroZs Kal drjoavpovs dvopvrrovcrtv Kal ^aatXevovGLV Kal rd dXXa evSaip^ovovGLV ola

392

HERMOTIMUS
have run round in a circle and come back to our starting-point and the self-same difficulty.

HERMOTIMUS

Look at what you have done to me, Lycinus. You have shown my treasure to be nothing more than ashes, and all these years and heavy toil are lost in
all likelihood.

LYCINUS
Well, Hermotimus, you will not be nearly so hurt you remember that you are not the only one left outside the hoped-for blessings. No, all those who study philosophy are, as it were, wrangling over the shadow of an ass. Who could go through all that process I described ? Even you yourself say that it is
if

And now you seem to me to be acting like a man who wept and blamed fortune because he could not go up to heaven or dive deep into the sea off Sicily and come up at Cyprus, or fly like a bird from Greece to India in one day. His disappointment was due, I fancy, to expectations follovdng a dream on some such subject or an invention of his imagination without prior enquiry whether his wishes could be
impossible.
friend,

and were humanly possible. You too, my have had many wonderful dreams, and the argument has poked you in the ribs and made you
fulfilled

jump up out

of your sleep. Then while your eyes are scarcely open you are angry with it, and you cannot easily shake off sleep for delight in what you have seen. Those who fabricate an unreal blessedness for themselves have just the same experience,

surrounded by wealth, digging up treasure, kings, heaven-blest for some other reason all this the

393

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TToAAa
Tj deos KLvri paSiovpyei, tj Ei5;^t], fxeyaXoScopog ovoa /cat npog ovSev avTiXeyovGa, kolv vttjvos deXrj Tts" yeveadaiy kov KoXoaoiaios to fieyedos, Koiv opT] oXa )(pvad vpL(TKiv tolvuv ravra t)^ ivvoovGLV avTols 6 TTals TTpoGeXdcjv epTjrat ri ru)v dvayKalcjv, olov odev dprovg wvrjreov rj 6 ri <f)aTOV Trpog rov aTTairovvra tovvolklov K ttoXXov

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Traihos OLTTOTpayeXv.

72

cru, (L (f>LX6Trj, firj 7rd9r]s avro irpos /x, a O-qaavpovg dvopvrrovra /cat Trerofievov /cat iwoovvra. /cat rivas TLvas iwoias virepc^vels iXnlSag dve^iKrovs y^XirlCovra cfyiXog wv ov TTcpietSov Sta TTavros rov ^lov oveipco lySet /xcv tcrcus", drdp ovelpcp ye avvovra, hiavaardvra 8e aftco TTpdrreiv ri rojv dvayKalcuv /cat o ae TrapaTrefJupcL is ro XoLTTOV rov ^iov rd Koivd ravra (jypovovvra. CTTel o ye vvv eirparres /cat eirevoeiSt ovhev rwv

*AAAa

el

*\TnTOKevravpo)v
Sta^cpet,
/cat

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/cat /cat

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/cat

ooa dXXa oveipoi

ypa(f>eis eXevSepoi ovres dvarrXdrrovoLV ovre yevo/cat o/xcus" fjueva TTcoTTOTe ovre yeveoOai hvvdjxeva. o TToXvs Xeojs TTLorevovGiv avrols /cat KrjXovvrai. 6pa)vres r] dKovovres rd roiavra 8ta to ^eva /cat oAAo/cora elvai. Kat (TV hj] fivdoTTOLov nvog d/coucra? ws eariv 73 Tts" yvvTj vnepcfyvTjs ro /coAAos", vnep rds Xaptras"

at5Ta?

el rj rrjv Ovpaviav,^ [irj Trporepov e^erdoas dXrjdij Xeyei /cat el eon ttov rrjs yrjs rj dvdpcoTTOS ^ After Oupavt'av MSS. have elvai del. Jacob! tz.
:

394

HERMOTIMUS
goddess Wishing easily manages, great in her gifts " and never saying no," whether you want to fly, to be as big as a Colossus, to discover whole mountains of gold and if a slave interrupts their reverie with a question on day-to-day necessities with what he is to buy bread, what he is to say to the landlord who has been waiting ever so long with a demand for the rent they are so angry with him for taking all those good things away with his troublesome questions that they come near to biting off his
;

nose.

dear friend, do not feel like that towards a friend, did not let you spend all your life in a dream, albeit a sweet one, digging up treasure,
But,

my

me,

if I,

flying, inventing extravagant visions, and for what was beyond reach, or if again I tell

hoping

you to

get up and carry out your daily tasks and adopt a course that will keep your mind in future on the trivalities of the common life. For what you have
is no different from Hippocentaurs and Chimaeras and Gorgons and all the other images that belong to dreams and to poets and painters with their artistic licence fancies that have never existed and can never exist.

recently been working at and planning

Nevertheless the vast majority of mankind believe are enchanted when they see or hear things of this sort, because they are strange and monstrous. You too have heard from some storyteller of a woman of surpassing beauty, beyond the Graces themselves or Heavenly Aphrodite and, although you had not first asked whether he was telling the truth and whether this woman existed anywhere

them and they

395

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aVTT),

rjpas

evdvg,

wGTiep ^aal

ttjv

oveiparos
fjidXicrrd

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Mi^Sctav ef o 8e Sr)

ere TTpos rov epcjra CTrqydyero /cat rovg aAAovs" Se, OTTOoroL rod avrov gol elScoXov ipwai,

rovro Tjv, ws yi jjlol etVaCovrt ^atVerat, to rov Xeyovra Klvov rrepl ttJs" yvvaiKos, 7TL7rp iiriarevdr] ro TTpwrov on dXyjOij Aeyet, aKoXovda LS TOVTO ydp Cx)pdr pLOVOVf Kal Stct 7TdyLV' rovro IXkV vp,ds rrjg pivos, i7TL7Tp aira^ rrjV
TTpwrrjv Xa^Tjv eveSujKare aura), Kal '^yev ttI rrjv dyaTTOJfievrjv 8t* '^g eXeyev evdelas oSov. pdSia

ydp,

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rd jx^rd ravra Kal ovSels

vficov

ert

7narp(f)6p,vog els rrjv eloohov i^TJraCev el dXrjdijs eariv Kal el jjirj eXaOev KaO* rjv ovk e)(prjv elaeXdcov,

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e'iTTep

eloirrireov.

74

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he

<t>'r]iJLL,

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rjv

ri,

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ojjiOLOv

TTapadecopijar^s avrcp'

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396

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in the world,

say

about the woman and his first sketch had won your You looked belief, he proceeded to fill in the details. at nothing else, and so, when once you had let him get the first grip, he dragged you all by the nose and led you to the beloved by what he said was a straight not one of you path. The rest, I fancy, was easy turned back to the entrance and enquired whether it was the true one and whether he had made a mistake and should not have entered; no, you followed in the steps of those who had made the
:

love with her at once, as they Jason from a dream. But what above all brought you to this love and has brought all who are in love with the same vision as you was, I should guess, this when he had told you

you

fell in

Medea

fell

in love with

journey before you, like sheep following their leader, although you should have considered at the entrance right at the beginning whether you ought to enter
in there.

You
this

Avill

see better
:

what

mean

if

you consider

analogy suppose one of these daring poets were to say that there was once a man with three heads and six hands, and suppose that you facilely accepted this without asking if it were possible, just believing, he would at once follow it up by filling in the details
appropriately six eyes, six ears, three voices coming from three mouths, each taking food, and thirty and, fingers, unlike us with our ten on two hands if he had to go to war, three hands held three shields and three brandlight, oblong, or round ished axe, spear, and sword. Who would disbelieve these details now details which are consistent with
;

397

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rfj
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rrepl
^

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rr\s

Kara ravra

evaTTodvqoKovoLV raZs eXTTiOL, nplv Ihelv rdXrjOes Kal Karayvcnvai rcov e^ ajrarrjodvr ojv eKeivajv, ol he Kdv atodcjjvrai ^7j7Tarr)pLevoi oipe nore yepovres oKvovaiv dvaorpe^eiv alhovpLevoi jjhT] yev6p,evoL,
el heijGev

rrjXiKovrovs avrovs ovras i^opLoXoyijoaG-

398

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the first outline? It was there that you ought to have seen whether it was credible or acceptable thus. Once you admit the premises the rest comes flooding in you will never stay its course, and disbelief is difficult now, for what follows is consistent This has in the way it follows the agreed premises. happened to you all. Because of your love and enthusiasm you made no enquiry into the conditions at each entrance. You go forward led by the con;

sistency of what came after, not considering that things may be consistent and false. Suppose for instance you were to believe someone who said that

seven and did not count for yourself, he go on to say that four times five is cerThis tainly fourteen, and so on, as long as he likes. in the is what that marvellous geometry does beginning it presents certain monstrous postulates and demands that we consent to them though they cannot exist for instance points without parts, lines without breadth, and so on and on these rotten foundations it erects its structure and claims to demonstrate truths, in spite of the fact that it starts from a false beginning.
twice five
is

will clearly

Draw the comparison you philosophers grant the premises of the various systems and then believe everything that follows, supposing that the consistency you find, false though it is, is a proof of its essential truth. Then some of you die in your hopes before they perceive the truth and condemn their deceivers, while others, even if they see too late that they have been deceived, are old men already, and hesitate to turn back out of shame, for
:

TTapaB^KTea Cobet

SeKTca

MSS.
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on

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exovres ov

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76
TTponfxaGdat ^ovXeoOai. KaiTOt TTpog rrjg ^Adrjvds dnavra jjuev a idacojjiev avrov Kara^aXovres Kal Xrjdrj ng
avrctjv
e<f)7]v,

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ecrrcu

a)G7Tp

ra)v

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Ei)K:Aet8ou

dpxovros

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nvaovVy
^

Kal Svvari^ ionv, KapLvovGLv ottogol e^ievrai avrrjs. rds fxev yap VTroGxeoeis aKovoj davfjiaGrdg nvas, rjXiKa evSaLjjLovtJGovGLv ol eg ro aKporarov eXdovpidrrjv

reg, fjLovovs

ra
400

rep

yap rovrovs ovn dyadd. ro


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av add. Jacobitz.

HERMOTIMUS
fear that in their old age they have to acknowledge that they did not know that they were playing children's games so they stick to it out of shame, and praise their lot and turn as many as they can into the same course so that they may not be the only ones who are swindled, but that a multitude of others in the same state as themselves may be a consolation to them. They realise moreover this, that if they speak the truth they will no longer be revered above the many as now, nor receive the same honour. No, they would not be ready to speak the truth, knowing as they do the heights from which they will fall to the state of ordinary mortals. You will certainly find very few brave enough to admit that they have been deceived and to turn away others from a similar attempt. If, then, you meet such a one, call him a lover of truth, honest, and just, and, if you like, a philosopher; for to him alone I would not begrudge the name. As for the rest, either they have no knowledge of the truth, though they think they have, or they know it and hide it from cowardice and shame and the wish to be highly honoured. However, in Athena's name let us forget all that
;

have said and

let it drop, let it pass into oblivion

like all history before Euclid's archonship.^ assume that this philosophy of the Stoics

other is right, and see whether it is possible, or if those who desire it labour in vain.

Let us and no attainable and

For I hear that it makes wonderful promises of the happiness in store for those who attain its height, for they alone will take and possess every true good. You may know the answer to the next question better ^ The year 403-402 b.c. when the democracy was reestablished in Athens and an amnesty went into eflfect.
401

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jjLTJre

Se

OTTOLOV )(p'r] Tov Kavova elvai Koi yvoijxova rod Kara rrjv aperrjv ^lov o yap KOL Kara puKporarov iv^eojv dreXijs, kolv iravra TrXeLO) exj] t Se rovro o?5;^t, ovheiroj evhaipujov.

KpeiTTOvi Koi GVvoXoj? evSaLfjLOVL.

ttXovtov

opyiCeadaL, (f)d6vov Kal

EPMOTIMOE
77

OuSeVa tolovtov

clSov.

Eu
8'

ye,

cS ^EipixoTLfjie,

ATKINOE on ov

ipevbrj eKOiv.

els ri

ovv aTTO^XiiTCDV (f)iXo(TO<f)els y orav opag fji-qre rov hihdaKoXov rov gov [xrJTe rov Klvov fJLrjrc rov irpo avTOV /xr^S* dv tV SeKayovlav dvaydyrjs pL-qhiva avTCJV ao(j)6v dKpi^ios koi Sta rovro cvhalpiova yyvrjp,evov ; ovhe yap dv Klvo 6p9u)S elrrois ws
diToxpy]

xdv

ttXtjolov
6p,OLOJS

yevrj

rrjg

evSatp^ovLas , inel

ovSev o^cAo?'

yap

e^o)

rov 68ov iartv

/cat

v rd) VTraiBptp d re irapd rj]v dvpav e^co iard)? Kal 6 TToppcj' hiaXXdrroLev 8* dv, on p,dXXov ovros dvidcrerai opdjv iyyvdev olcov iareprjrai. elra Iva
ttXtjglov yevT)
rrjs

evhaipLovias (Sdxjo)

gol)

roGavra

iroveis

yap rovro Kararpv^^v Geavrov, Kal

TrapaheSpdfJirjKe

g d jStos' o roGovros iv dKr^Sta Kal Kapidrcp Kal dypvnviaLS /caret) vevevKora' Kal eloavdis TTOvriGeis, d)s (f>TJs, oAAa clkoglv errj
Iva

rovXd^i'Orov y

6ySo7]Kovrovrr]g

yevopuevo?

(et

ns
402

iyyvrjr'qs .Gri gol

on

^lajGrj

rooavra) opiws

HERMOTIMUS
^have you ever met a Stoic, one of the top men, of a type that feels no pain, one who is not dragged down by pleasure, who is never angry, but rises above envy, despises wealth, and is perfectly happy ? Our canon and measure of the virtuous life must be like that for if he fall short in the least thing he is imperfect, even if he has more of everything and if he is not like that, he is not yet happy.

than

HERMOTIMUS
I

have never seen such a man.


LYCINUS

Good

for

you, Hermotimus

You do

not

tell

deliberate

lies.

philosopher, his teacher nor his predecessor even back to the tenth generation truly wise and therefore happy ? For it would not be right for you to say that it is enough if you come near to happiness that is of no use a man standing by the door is as much outside the threshold and in the open as one a long way off, the difference being that the former will be more annoyed because he has a near view of what he cannot have. Then just to get near happiness (this I will grant you) you take all that trouble, wearing yourself out, and so much of

Then what have you in view as a when you see neither your teacher nor

your life has slipped away in torpor and weariness, slumped in sleeplessness; and you will labour on, as you say, for at least another twenty years, so that

when you
so long
?)

are eighty (have you a guarantee of living you may be one of those who are not yet
:

^ TotovTO) Htco'Ckw tcov aKpoiv Fritzsche (or Kal) TO) aKpat (or to dnpov) MSS.

STtolVa) toiovto) is

THE WORKS OF LUCIAN


^S"

TOLS [JLrjSeTTW evSaLfJiOVOVGLV L firj fJLOVOg rev^ecrdai tovtov Kal alp-qaeiv Slwkcov o irpo GOV jLtaAa TToXkoi Kal dyadol Kal WKvrepoL irapa TToXv Sicx) Kovreg ov KareXa^ov.
oi-'et

78

*AAAa Kal KardXape, et 8o/cet, Kal ex^ oXov ovXXa^iov TO jJLev 817 Trpcorov ovx opco 6 tl ttot' dv Lr] rdyadoVy at? avrd^Lov Soklv tcov ttovojv tcov rOGOVTCOV. 7TLTa ? TTOGOV TL TOV XoLTTOV XROVOV dTToXavaeLS avrov yipojv tJSt] Kal iravros rjheog
e^ojpos d)V Kal Tov erepov 7708a (fyaorlv iv rfj Gopo) xo}v ; el jxij tl is dXXov, d> yevvale, j8tov Trpoyvp,vd^eis eavTOVy (hs is iKelvov iXOdiv dp,ivov

hiaydyoiSy elhcjs ovriva rpoirov XPV P^ovv ojjlolov COS" et TLS is TooovTov GKevd^OL T Kal evrpeTTL^oL
d)s

SeLTTV-jjawv

dfietvov

dxpL dv Xd9r] vrro At/xou


7TOJ

SLa(f)dapLs.

79

'AAAa
d)S
17

jjLTjv

ovS^ iKLv6

KaravevoTjKas of/xat

fJiiv

dpcTT] iv epyoLs hiqTTOV iarlv, oTov iv rat

SiKaia TTpdrreiv Kal aocfyd Kal dvSpela, vpuels 8 (to 8e vixels OTav ecTTCO, tovs aKpovs rcov ^lAocro(f)OVVTOJV (t>''^lJ^i) d<f)evTes raura (^T^reti' Kal TTOieZv prijidTia hvGTTjva ^eAcrare Kal ovXXoyiGjjLOVs Kal diropias Kal to ttXclgtov tov ^lov inl tovtols
8iaTptj8eT, Acat os dv KpaTjj iv avTols KaXXtvLKos
VfjLiv

8oKL.

d<j)'

(x>v

of/xat

Kal

TOV

hihdGKaXo\>

otl tovs dvSpa, 9avpidCT yipovTa TTpoGOfjuXovvTas is dTTopiav KaOlGTrjGiV Kal otSev ws XPV pG9aL Kal GO(f)iGaGdaL Kal Travovpyrjoai Kal is d(f)VKTa ipi^aXelv, Kal tov Kapirov dTexv^S ovTOS Se rjv nepl ra epya nepl tov d(f)VTs

TOVTOvl

(fyXoLov

doxoXeiGde

ret <f)vXXa

KaTax^ovTcs dXX'^Xcov

404

HERMOTIMUS
happy unless you think that you alone will reach and grasp in your pursuit that w^hieh very many good and far swifter men have pursued before you and failed to catch. Well, catch it then, if you wish grasp and hold all of it but in the first place I do not see what good could ever be supposed to compensate for all these efforts. Then what time will you have left to enjoy it, old man as you will be, too far gone for pleasure, and
:
;

with one foot in the grave, as they say? Unless, my noble friend, you are putting in training for a
future
life,

so that

you can

live it better

when you

get there, knowing how to live like a man preparing and training himself for a better dinner for such a
long time that before he knows it he is dead of hunger. Moreover, you have never realised, I suppose, that
virtue lies in action, in acting justly and wisely and " " I mean the bravely. While all of you (by you these at the philosophers top) neglect things, and

are studying

how

to find

and compose your wretched

texts and syllogisms and problems. You spend most of your lives on this, and whoever wins in this race is

your Conquering Hero. That, I fancy, is why you admire this teacher of yours, the old man, because he reduces his pupils to perplexity and knows how to question and quibble and cheat and throw into inextricable confusion. So you just throw away the fruit which has to do with works and busy yourselves with the husk, in your discussions throwing

405

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v rats' ofjuXlaLS.
^FjpjJLOTLiJie,
7}

yap dXXa iarlv d TrpdrTcre


;

c5

TTOLvres eojdev els ioirlpav

EPMOTIMOi:
OvK, dAAa ravra.

ATKINOS
oSv OVxl Kol OpBcJS TLS <f)aL7) TTJV GKIOLV VfJids Orjpeveiv idaavras to CTcojLta ^ rod 6(f}OJ? to orv(f>ap fxdXXov he to ofxoLov d/xeArjoravra? tov oXkov;
TTOielv Ui07Tp t Tt? 6? oXfJLOV vhojp K-)(iaS V7TpCp

*H

OlSrjpO)

7TTLTTOL ^

7TpdTTLV

dvayKOLOV

Tt

KOL

TTpovpyov ol6pLvos OVK ctScus" OTL dv drro^dXr] ^aol TOVS OiflOVS TTTLTTOJVy^ vBojp OfJLOiCOS TO vSwp

80

Kat iJLOi S69 ivTavda tJSt] ipeadai ere dv e^io TOJV Xoywv to. dXXa eoiKevai

el

tw

edeXocg 8iSa-

OKoXcp, ovTOJ jiev opylXos, ovtco Se fiiKpoXoyos, ovTCD Sc ^iXoveiKos d)v Koi <f)iXrihovos vrj At", t
/cat fiTj
TtjLte;

Tols TToXXoZs 8o/ct.


deXeis
Sti^yi^cro/Ltat

Tt

CTtycts',^

CO

*E/3/xd-

(f>LXoGO(j)ia9

TJKovoa virep TLVog XeyovTos dvhpos Trdvv yeyripaKoTrpcorjv

TOS, U) TrdjLtTToAAot TCOV vlcOV 77t GO(f)La TrXr^GLd^ovOLv ; diraiTCiyv yap Tvapd tlvos tcjv pLadrjTOJV tov

TjyavdKTei, Xeywv virepr^piepov elvai Kal eKTTpodeafiov tov o^AT^/xaros', ov cSet 7Tp6 eKKalSeKa Kal vea' ovtoj yap rjfjLepcov eKreTLKevai Tjj evrj
pLiadov

81

ovvdeadai. Kat enel raura rjyavdKTet, vapeaTajg 6 Oelog tov veavLGKov, dypoiKos dvdpcoTTOs Kal tStcori]? co? TTpos Ta vjjieTepa, UeTravao, etTTev, at OavpLaGLe, tol
^

TTTLTTOL
. .

TTtItTWV

C,

TTTl^rTOt

TTJlfrTCOV

'.

ttXtjttoi

TrX-qrrcov

N.

406

HERMOTIMUS
the leaves over each other.
do,
Isn't that
till

what you

all

Hermotimus, from dawn

dusk ?

HERMOTIMUS
Yes, just that.
LYCINUS

Then wouldn't it be right to say that you forget the substance and hunt the shadow, or ignore the crawling serpent and hunt the slough? Yes, and that you are like a man pouring water into a mortar and braying it with an iron pestle who thinks that he is doing essential and productive work, not knowing that although you bray your arms off, as they say, water is still water? Now here let me ask you if, leaving aside his talk, you would care to be like your teacher. Would you care to be so irritable, so mean, so quarrelsome, yes, and so fond of pleasure, even if people don't think it ? Why don't you speak, Hermotimus ? Shall I tell you what I heard the other day from a very old man who spoke in defence of some philosophy or other? Quite a number of young men keep him company to learn his wisdom, and he was in a temper as he demanded payment from one of his pupils, saying that it was overdue and that the day had gone by the debt ought to have been paid sixteen days before on the last day of the month, according to the agree:

ment.
this show of temper, the young man's came up to him. He was a countryman a " mere layman to you philosophers. Good heavens

During

uncle

Stop saying you've been cheated of a fortune because


2

Tt

aiyag Graevius

rt at

ye

MSS.
407

THE WORKS OF LUCIAN


l^eyiar
r]hLKr\o6ai
[jL-qheTTCo

Xeycjv,

el

p-qiidria

uapa gov
Kairoi

TTpidiievoL

iKTeriKayiev hid^opov.

^X^^^ ^'"'' '^^^ avros koL ovhkv eXarrov yiyovi ooi rcJov jxadrjijudrajv. ret S* aAAa wv ef dp^ijs iTTiOvficov Gvvearrjcrd aoi rov
[xev
rjijuv

TreirpaKas,

veavLGKoVy 6 8* ovhkv dpieiviov yeyeviqrai 8ta ere, OS" TOVfJLOv yeirovos ^EtX^Kpdrovs Tr]v Bvyaripa cruvapTrdaas napdevov ovaav SLe(f)6Lpv Koi oXiyov
^

Slktjv <f)vye
udfjLTjv

jStatcov',

{jlt)

iycj

raXdvrov

<hvrj~

TO

irXrifjbp.eX'qfxa

*E;!^e/cparois".

rrjv

irapd Trevrjrog dvSpog rov [jLTjrepa 8e 7rpa)7]v ippdiTLcrev,


vtto

OTL avTov iXdpero

KdhoVy (hs xoL cruix^oXdg


IJbV

koXttov KKopiLi,ovTOS rov rd otfjuai Karadelvai.

yap is opyrjv /cat dvpLov /cat di^ato^urrtav /cat is roXfiav /cat i/jevSos jJLaKpat tlvl dp,Lvov t)^ irepVGLV 7] vvv. KalroL i^ovX6pi7]v dv avTov is ravra
ilxjieXrjodai

vtto

aov

fJidXXov

rjirep

c/ceti^a

et8eVat,

iKd(JTr]v 'qpLepav irpos ripids ovhkv heopiivovs iirl TO heliTvov Sie^ipxeraL, cos KpoKoSciXos TJpirade
TTaihiov, /cat VTTeax'f]'TO.L dirohojaeiv auro, dv diroKplvTjraL 6 TTarrjp ovk olS* 6 rt, ?) ws dvayKoZov

a Kad*

ioTLv
/cat

rjixipas

ovarjs

Kepara

r^pXv 6

vuKra cfvat. ivlore he fir) yewaZos dva^vei ovk ot8* ottojs

TTepLTrXiKOJV

rov

TOVTOLs,
/xeAera

/cat

Xoyov. rjfjiels 8e yeXdjjxev iirl fidXtara orav iinBvGdfjLevos rd cSra

rrpos

avrov e^ecs nvds


/cat
/cat

/cat

crp^eoets-

/cat

roiavra iroXXd KaraX'qipeis <f)avTaaLas ovofjiaTa hie^iajv. dKovofxev 8e avrov Xiyovros ojs /cat o deos OVK iv ovpavco ianv dXXd 8ta Trdvrojv
7T(f)OLrr]KVj olov ^vXojv /cat XidcjDV /cat ^c^ujv dxpi/cat rwv drip,ordrojv . /cat rrjs yc fxrjrpos ipo-

fiivTjs

avrov rt ravra

X-qpel,

KarayeXdaas

avrrjs,

408

HERMOTIMUS
we bought some pretty talk from you and haven't paid you the balance yet. In any case you still have what you sold to us your capital of knowledge is not reduced. And what about my hopes in sending the young man to you in the first place ? You've made him no better he carried off my neighbour Echecrates' daughter, a virgin, and raped her. He only just missed a summons for assault, but I paid a talent to Echecrates, who is a poor man, in recompense for his crime. The other day he thrashed his mother because she caught him carrying off the wine jar under his coat his contribution, I suppose, to the As for passion and anger and shamelesswine-feast. ness and recklessness and lying, he was far better last
:

year than he is now. Yet I would have liked him to be helped by you in this sort of thing, rather than have all that knowledge which every day at dinner he parades at us, though we've no need of it how a crocodile carried off a young lad, and promised to give him back if his father answered some question or other; or how when it's day it can't be night. Sometimes our fine gentleman even makes horns grow out of our heads, he t^dsts our words so.^ We laugh at all this, especially when he stops up his ears and does his practice and says over to himself his states
: *
'

conditions and and comprehensions images,' and a string of other names like these. hear him say that God is not in heaven but pervades everything sticks and stones and beasts And when his mother right down to the meanest. asks him why he talks such nonsense, he laughs at
'

and

'

'

'

We

"

equivalent of the ancient


^

Have you stopped beating your wife ? " is the modern " Have you lost your horns ? "
(f>vy

Reitz

<j>vyov

MSS.
409

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*AAAa rjv Tov Xrjpov tovtov, (f)rj, iKfxddaj d/<"/o tjSois", ovSev KcoXvGei fie fJLovov ttXovolov jjlovov jSaatAea
clvac,

TOV9 Se aXXovg avSpdrroSa

/cat

Kaddpjxara

vofjLLC^aOai (Ls TTpos ifxe,

82

Toiavra rov dvSpos


otav
diTOKpiGiv
TTpeaPvTLKTjv'
<f>r]

elTTOvro?, 6 (j)LX6oo<f>os
(L
'EpjLtdrtjLte,

opa
cLs

dTTKpivaTOy

ydp,
otct

'AAA'

iTTXrjorla^ev ovros,

ovk

ye (jltj ijJLol fiaKpco X^^P^ ^^ avrov

el

Kal vrj Ata taco? rev SrjpLLa) TTapahehooOaL ; ws vvv ye ;)(aAti'or riva ep.pepX7]KV auTo) 7) <f)LXoGo<f)La Kal r) npos ravrrjv atSat?, Kal 8ta rovro pLerpicvrepos eanv vpXv Kal (f)opr)r6 en. <f)epei ydp riva alaxvvrjv auroi, el dvd^Los ^atVotro TOV ox'^lP'O.TOs Kal rod ovo/xaroj, a hrj irapaKoXovdovvra TTaihayojyel avrov. wcrre St/catos" dv etrjv, el Kal jJiTj (Lv peXrlcx) dTrecfyrjva, jxiadov Trap* vpucov Xa^elvy oAA' ovv eKeivcjv ye a /jlt] heSpaKev eirel /cat at rirdai roidhe alSovfievos <f)LXoGO(j)iav

e^epydaaadai

XeyovGL TTepl rcov Traihiajv, (hs dTTLrrjreov ? 8i8acr/caAoi>* /cat ydp dv pnqherro} fiadelv

avrols

dyadov

hvvojvrai, oAA' ovv <j>avXov ovhev TTOirjOOVGiv eKel pievovres. iyd) fxev ovv rd dXXa ndvra dTTOTrXrJGaL /xot 8o/coj, /cat ovnva dv edeXrjg ru)V

rd rjpierepa, rjKe pLOi es" avpiov TrapaAajScov re ottojs epcora Kal ttcjs dTTOKpiverai Kal ocra lxep,dOrjKev Kal ocra tJSt] dveyvcoKe j3tj3Ata irepl
elSorojv
oijjei

TTepl

d^iOjpLdrojv, TTepl GvXXoyiGpidjv, irepl KaraXijifjecos , KaOrjKovrojv Kal dXXa TTOiKiXa. el he ri rrjv
7}

pLTjrepa ervTrrev

TTpos efie

ov ydp TTatSayajyov

Trapdevov? GwqpTTal^e, ri ravra pie eTTeGTiqGare avrco.

83

Totaura yepojv dvdpcjTTog vrrep (jyiXoGocfyiag eXeye. Gv he Kal avros dv <f)aLrjSi to 'Ep)LtoTt/xe, uKavov
410

HERMOTIMUS
her and says If I learn this nonsense properly, there will be nothing to stop me being the only rich man, the only king, and the rest slaves and scum " compared with me.' This is what the man said. Now hear the philosopher's reply, Hermotimus, the answer of experi" ence If he had not come to me, don't you think he would have done much worse, and even perhaps have faced the public executioner? As it is, philosophy and his regard for philosophy have put a bit in his
: :
*

"

"

mouth, and so he is more moderate and still tolerable. For it brings some shame on him if he shows himself unworthy of that dress and name, things which accompany him and serve as a tutor. So I deserve my pay from you, if not for any improvement I have
at any rate for what out of respect for philosophy he has not done. Nurses too say as much, that little children must go to school if they are still too young to learn anything good, at any rate they will be out of mischief while they are there. No, in general I think I have done what I had to do. Come tomorrow and bring along anyone you like who knows our teaching, and you Avill see how he asks questions and gives answers, how much he has learnt and how many books he has read already on axioms, syllogisms,

made,

comprehensions, properties, and all sorts of things. If he has beaten his mother or carried off girls, what is that to me ? You didn't make me his

chaperon." This was the defence of philosophy that the old man gave. Would you too agree, Hermotimus, that
411

THE WORKS OF LUCIAN


elvat CO? 8ta

rovro

(j)LXoGO(f>OLr]^ev ,
ctt'

cog fjLTjSev tojv

oAAatS" iXTrioLv i^ ^ (fyavXorepojv OLpx'rjs <f)LXoGO(f)LV r)^LOviJLv, ovx <^S rwv Ihicorcov
ttparrot fiev ;

KOGfJLLCVrepOL
oLTTOKplvrj

L7][JLV

7TpLVOarOVVrS

ri OVV

OVK

Kal rovro;

EPMOTIMOE
Tt 8e aAAo t) on /cat haKpvaai oXiyov 8eco; c? roaovro jjiov KadcKcro 6 Xoyog dXrjdrjs <x>v, Kal
fjLLdOovs

oSvpofiai, oaov adXios ;)(/)ovov dvdXojKa /cat TTpoaen OVK oXlyovg reXojv dvrl ru)v ttovidv. wvl

yap

(x)G7Tp

jjiedrjg

dvavrj^ojv opoj ota p,ev eariv

<Lv rjpojv, OTTooa Se Trenovda 8td

ravra.

ATKINOS
84

haKpvwv, cL XRV^"^^ i '^^ Y^P "^^u eKCLvo irdw crvverov, olp,ai, ov Algcottos SltjfJLvdov yeiro' yap dvBpwTTOv riva ivl rfj rjXovL (f)r)

Kat

Tt

8t

KaOeCoficvov inl rrjv KVfxarcjyrjv dpiOixelv rd KVfxaray o^aXevra hk Kal axOeodai Kal dvtaa^at, dxpi' 8t^ rrjv /cepSco napaGrdGav etVetP* avrw, Tt, cS yevvale, dvta rcbv TrapeXOovrwv eVc/ca, hiov rd ivrevdev dp^dfjLvov dpidfieLV dp,eXrjGavra eKecvajv ; Kat GV rOLWVy TTL7Tp OVrCO GOL So/CCt, ? TO XoiTTOV dv dfxeLvov TTOirJGaLs ^iov re kolvov diTaGL pLovv d^LciJv Kal GVfiTToXLrevGrj rols ttoXXols ovhev dXXoKorov Kal rrv(j)Cx)pbevov iXTTL^ojVy Kal ovk aLGxvvfjy rjvTTep v cfypovfj?, el yepojv dvdpcoTTOS fxeraixadTJorr) Kal /LtTa;^6op7jcret? npos ro ^eXriov. 85 ravra vavra, cS ^iXoriqs, oiroGa elirov, fjurj fie

Kard rrjs ^rods TrapeoKevaGfievov iq rivd ex^poiv e^aiperov rrpds STCot/cou? eTravrjp-qpievojjLLGrjs

412

HERMOTIMUS
enough that we study philosophy in order to keep Or was it with other hopes that we thought it worth while to study philosophy in the first place, not so that in our goings and comings we
it is

out of mischief ?

should present a fairer face than the layman do you not answer this as well ?

Why

HERMOTIMUS

Only because I could almost weep. Your argument is true, and I'm driven to this I'm in anguish at the time I've wasted like a fool, and at all the money I've paid for my labours, too. I was drunk and now I am sober and am seeing just what it was that I loved and what I have gone through for it.
:

LYCINUS

When

There's a deal of sense, tears, honest friend ? think, in that fable of Aesop's where a man sits on the shore by the water's edge to count the waves.

Why

he fails he is hurt and takes it badly, until " the Fox comes up to him and says Why are you worrying about those that have gone, my noble sir ? Let them go and begin your count from here." And so with you since that is your view, you will do better in the future to make up your mind to join in the common life. Share in the city life of everyday, and give up your hopes of the strange and pufFedup. You will not be ashamed, if you are wise, to learn afresh in your old age and make a change for the better. In all that I have said, my dear friend, do not think that I have directed my argument against the Stoa, or that I have some special hatred for the Stoics. No, it applied to all alike. I should
:

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vov Lpr]KvaL, aAAa kolvos inl Trdvras 6 Aoyos". TO, yap avra npog ae eiTTOV dv, et rd HXdrcxJvog iq ApLcrroreXovs -^prjcro rwv dXXcov aKpircov ipT^jju-qv Karayvovg. vvv Se errel rd YaToj'Ckcjjv TTpoeriyiiqGas, irpos T7]v Sroav drrorerdGOai. 6 Aoyos" eho^ev ovSev i^alperov Trpos avrrjv ex^iv.

EPMOTIMOE
86
d7TLp,L yovv p,TapaXoLfJir]v /cat avro hrj

Eu

Acycts"

ctt*

avro rovro, wg
6ipL

to

oxrjfJLa.

yovv

ovK

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Trepian^croixai

414

HERMOTIMUS
have said the same to you if you had chosen the school of Plato or Aristotle and condemned the rest without a trial. As it is, you have given pride of place to the Stoics, and so the argument has seemed to be directed against the Stoa, although it had no
particular

grudge against

it.

HERMOTIMUS

see me without this big, shaggy beard. I shall not punish my daily life, but all will be liberty and freedom. Perhaps I shall even put on purple, to show everybody that I've no part in that nonsense now. Could I but spew out all that I have heard from them! I can tell you that I would not flinch from drinking hellebore, for the opposite reason to Chrysippus to remember their doctrines no more. So it is no small favour that I owe you, Lycinus you came and pulled me out when I was being carried to it away by a rough, turbid torrent, giving myself " and going with the stream. You were a God from the machine," as in the play. I think I might well shave my head like free men who are saved from shipwreck, to give thanks for salvation today now that I have had so heavy a mist shaken off my eyes. If in the future I ever meet a philosopher while I am walking on the road, even by chance, I will turn round and get out of his way as if he were a mad dog.

You are right. I am going away to do just that to make a change of dress as well. You will soon

d^wv N;

d.^iv

r.
:

oScD Fritzsche

ev 68a>

MSS.

415

TO ONE WHO SAID, "YOU'RE A PROMETHEUS


IN
A
a

WORDS"

short piece on the blending of dialogue and comedy into genre, with a hint of pride at Lucian's achievement iu effecting the marriage.

new

VOL. VI.

nPOZ TON EinONTA, nPOMHGEYZ EI EN AOrOIZ


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Fritzsche.

418

TO ONE WHO SAID YOU'RE A PROMETHEUS IN WORDS"


*'

So you say
friend,

am

a Prometheus

If

by

this,

works like his are of clay, I accept the comparison and agree that I am like him. I don't object to being called a clay-worker, even if my mud is rather dirty stuff from a roadjunction, little better than filth. But if you are over-

you mean that

my

my

praising

wrought and graciously assigning the name of the wisest of the Titans to them, you may find that people will detect irony and an Attic sniff in your In what way is my work well wrought? praise. What superlative wisdom and Promethean foresight
is

my

words, implying that they are well

there in my writings ? I am quite content if you thought them not too earthy, not quite worthy of the Caucasus. Yet how much more just would it be to compare to Prometheus all you people who win fame What you do by fighting real battles in the courts is truly alive and breathing and, yes, its heat is that of fire.^ This too is from Prometheus with the sole difference that what you fashion is not clay but in
!

many

cases your fictions are golden.


^

Prometheus

stole fire

and gave

it

to mortals.

2
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MSS.

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Reitz.

419

THE WORKS OF LUCIAN


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Ac'yciy

Schaefer

Ac'yoty

MSS.

420

YOU'RE A PROMETHEUS IN WORDS


however who come before a crowd and

'

We

offer

our lectures, such as they are, show you a few figurines, and our modelhng is entirely in mud as I said just now, like that of doll-makers. In general there is no movement in them that corresponds to life nor any indication of breathing. No, the whole
business
is

occurring to

metheus.
**

me Prometheus as the comic poet called Cleon He says of him, you remember,
Cleon's a Prometheus after the event."

empty enjoyment and play. So it's me to wonder whether you are calling
Pro-

to call potters and oven" workers and all workers in clay Prometheuses," in burn jest at the clay or even perhaps the way they " If your their products in the furnace. Prome" theus means that, you have hit the mark well with an Attic pungency of wit, since our works too are as throw a little stone and you fragile as their pots

The very Athenians used

would smash the lot. Yet someone might console me by saying "It was not in these respects that he compared you to Prometheus. No, he was praising your originality in following no exemplar, just as Prometheus at a time when no men existed fashioned them from his imagination, when he gave shape and form to such living creatures that they might move easily and be He was the master-craftsman, graceful to see. though Athena helped by breathing into the mud and
Se add. Dindorf.
: : kol TrqXov etvat rj TnjXov elvai * av irdvra Jacobs : aTravra MSS.

'

fcai

Lehmann.

eiKoad a Dindorf

eiKoiaai

MSS.
421

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MSS.

422

'

YOU'RE A PROMETHEUS IN WORDS


live."

'

making the models

That is what he might say,

putting at least a gracious interpretation on your words, and perhaps that was what you meant. Yet I am not at all satisfied to be thought an innovator with no older model to father this work of mine. No, if it were not thought graceful as well, I should certainly be ashamed of it, believe me, and trample it

under foot and destroy it. The originality would be no help, as far as I am concerned, to prevent the ugly
If I didn't think this, I thing's being obliterated. should consider it right to have sixteen vultures tear

me

for not

understanding

things which suffer this novelty.

how much uglier are the when they are combined with

Ptolemy the son of Lagus two novelties to brought Egypt a completely black Bactrian camel and a man of two colours, half jetblack and half dazzlingly white, the colours equally He assembled the Egyptians in the theatre, divided. where he put on a lot of other shows for them and lastly this, the black camel and the half-white man, thinking to amaze them by the spectacle. The spectators however took fright at the camel and all but jumped up and ran away and that though the camel was adorned all over with gold and draped in sea-purple and the bridle was set with gems, the treasure of some Darius or Cambyses or Cyrus himAs for the man, most of them laughed, but self. some were disgusted as at a monstrosity. So when Ptolemy realised that he got no credit in their eyes and the Egyptians did not admire the novelty but

Take an example.

2
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avro Marcilius.

So Seager

ow MSS.
423

THE WORKS OF LUCIAN


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eralpovs exXeva^e <f>povrLards 424

/cat

YOU'RE A PROMETHEUS IN WORDS

'

set more store on beauty of form and line, he sent them away and esteemed them no longer as before. The camel died through neglect, and the half-and-

half

man he presented to Thespis the pipe-player for playing prettily at a carousal. I am afraid that my work too is a camel in Egypt

and people admire its bridle and its sea-purple, since even the combination of those two very fine creations, dialogue and comedy, is not enough for beauty of form if the blending lacks harmony and symmetry. The synthesis of two fine things can be a freak the hippocentaur is an obvious example you would not

call

this creature

charming, rather a monstrosity,

go by the paintings of their drunken orgies and murders. Well then, can nothing beautiful come from the synthesis of two things of high quaUty, as the mixture of wine and honey is exceedingly pleasant? Yes, certainly. But I cannot maintain that this is the case \vith my two: I'm afraid that the beauty of each has been lost in the blending. Dialogue and comedy were not entirely friendly and compatible from the beginning. Dialogue used to sit at home by himself and indeed spend his time in the public walks with a few companions Comedy gave herself to Dionysus and joined him in the theatre, had fun with him, jested and joked, sometimes stepping in time to the pipe and generally riding on anapaests. Dialogue's companions she
to
;

^
~

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top-

dvdpatnov

seel.

Lehmann.

'

Marcilius : davfid^ovm 8e add. Bekker.

MSS.

THE WORKS OF LUCIAN


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'

some MSS.
:

Kal

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T.

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TnTvoKd^irras

MSS.

426

YOU'RE A PROMETHEUS IN WORDS


as

'

mocked

"

''

suchlike.

Heavy-thinkers ", She had one delight

High-talkers to deride them and


",

and

drown them in Dionysiac liberties. She showed them now walking on air and mixing with the clouds, now measuring sandals for fleas ^ her notion of

heavenly subtleties, I suppose! Dialogue however took his conversations very seriously, philosophising about nature and virtue. So, in musical terms, there were two octaves between them, from highest to lowest. Nevertheless I have dared to combine them as they are into a harmony, though they are not in the least docile and do not easily tolerate partnership.

Well,

am

afraid that I in

my

turn

may seem
;

to

have acted something like your Prometheus in mixing female with male and may be charged with that or rather that I may seem a Prometheus in another
respect

in deceiving my listeners perhaps by giving


!

them bones covered


sophic solemnity.

in fat,^ comic jests under philoFor as to theft (he is the god of

this alone you could theft), away Avith that charge not say was in my works. Whom could I steal from ? Unless someone has invented such fish-horses and

goat-stags independently without my knowing. But what could I do ? I must abide by what I chose

once and for all. To change one's plan of Epimetheus, not Prometheus.^
^

is

the work

'

In the Clouds of Aristophanes. See Hesiod, Theogony 537 fiF. I.e., Afterthought, not Forethought.

427

THE

SHIP

OR THE WISHES

A satire on the folly of human wishes. As in Plato's Republic, a visit to Piraeus leads to general discussion, with on the Lycinus, unlike Socrates, confining himself to an attack " " views of his companions. For a discussion on the Isis and her trip see L. Casson's article in Transactions of the American
Philological Association, vol. 81 (1950), and B. S. J. Isserlin's note, T.A.P.A., vol. 86 (1955), with Casson's reply, ibid. 87 (1956).

nAOION H EYXAI
ATKINOE
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/cat

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re

/cat

aAAo

Tt i^

acneos

t]Klv

Sa/xtTTTrov tovtovl, jxtj /car ro ttXolov. iq oi/jofjuevovs

ATKINOS
^AScLfxavrog 6 MvppLvovatos ^iTrero fied* rjfjLwv, dAA' ovk ofS' ottou rui^ c/cctrds" corrti/ dTTOTrXavqdelg v rep TrArj^et rcDv dearcov. d-xpt'
Nt] Ata,
/cat
fjLev

ydp

rrJ9

vewg a/xa

-qXOofJiev

/cat

avtoi^re?

sr

awTT^i^,

8e d

jxev, olfMaL, SajLttTTTTC, TTporjeLg, /xera or 'ASei/xai^os" "^^i^, ctr' cyco /xcr' Keivov ixop^evos

au

diro^ddpas oX-qs x^Lpaywycov VTTohe.hep.ivov dvvnoh'qros avTOS coi', TO diTO rovTov he ovKin avrov elhov ovre evhov ovre iirel KareX7]Xv9apev.
TTapeTrcpufje

avrov

dfi(f)OTepaL9 , /cat fxe 8ta rrjs

430

THE
Didn't
I

SHIP

OR THE WISHES
LYCINUS

say that it was easier for vultures to miss a stinking corpse in the open than for Timolaus to miss an odd sight, even if he had to run off to Corinth You are so fond for it without a pause for breath ? of shows, and so determined in such matters.

TIMOLAUS

have done, then, Lycinus, having nothing to do, and hearing that such a huge boat, exceptionally large, had put into Piraeus, one of the Egyptian grain ships on its way to Italy ? I fancy that you two, you and Samippus here, have come from Athens for exactly the same reason, to see the
should
I

What

ship.

LYCINUS
^ came is so, and Adimantus of Myrrinous he is now he where know with I don't but us, along has wandered off in the crowd of spectators. Until we reached the ship and went aboard, you, I think, Samippus, were in front, and then came Adimantus, and next I myself, holding on to him with both hands; he led me by the hand all the way up the gangway I had shoes on, he was barefoot but then I didn't see him again either on board or when we came back to the shore.

That

A deme

in Attica.

THE WORKS OF LUCIAN


HAMinnoi:
2

Olada

ovu,

cS

Avklv,

ottov

rjfjLds

dTreXnrev ;

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to

tt]v

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s

TO ttXolov TTapeGTTjKe raxvhajcpvs yap 6 dvrjp

rd ipojTLKd.

ATKINOE
pLTjv ov Trdvv KaXos, co ^diJLLinre, 6 jXipaKlGKOS cSo^C piOL, (1)S dv KOI ^ASetpLavTOV iKTrXyj^ai, lo togovtol ^Ad-qvrjGt kolXoI eTTOvrai, TTdvTS iXevdepoL, GrcopLvXoL TO (f)9eyp,ay TraXaiGrpa^ drTOTTveovres , 0I9 Kal TrapaSaKpvGai ovk dyewes, ovTos Se TTpos TO) pLeXdyxpovg elvat Kal TTpox^iXos iGTL Kal AcTTTos" dyav toIv GKeXolv, Kal (j>9iyyTO 7nGGVppLVOV TL Kol GVVX9 Kal 7rtTpo;(OV, *KXXrjviGTl /xcV, ? TO Trdrpiov 8e rco tpocfxp kol rep rijs (fxjovrjs rovtp, r) Kopbrj 8c Kal is rovTTLGO) 6 ^ TrXoKapLog GweGireipapLevog ovk iXevOepov cj^riGLv avTov Lvai.

Kat

TIMOAAOS
3

ToUTO

p,V
^

AlyvTTTLOLS

VyVLa?, 60 AVKIV, Grjp,L6v GTLV aTTavTCs yap avrrjv ol iXevder) KopLT).

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etvat,

Kopidv rovs yepovras dvaSovpbdvovs Kpoj^vXov

VTTO TCTTtyt

XP^^^

dveiXrjppLevov.

432

THE SHIP OR THE WISHES


SAMIPPUS
at what point he left us, Lycinus ? I was when that pretty lad came out of the hold, the one in pure white linen, with his hair tied back over both sides of his forehead. If I know Adimantus, I think that when he saw that dainty sight he bade a long farewell to the Egyptian shipwright who was showing us round the ship, and just stood there, weeping as usual. He's quick at tears

Do you know
it

think

when Cupid's

about.

LYCINUS
Well, Samippus, the young lad didn't seem to me very pretty, not enough to excite Adimantus at any He has a crowd of beauties following him in rate. Athens, all of them free-born, full of chatter, and breathing wrestling-schools; it wouldn't be ignoble even to weep in their presence. This fellow is not only dark-skinned, but thick-lipped and too thin in the leg. He spoke in a slovenly manner, one long, continuous prattle he spoke Greek, but his accent and intonation pointed to his native-land. His hair coiled in a plait behind shows he is not freeborn.
;

TIMOLAUS
This is a sign of high birth in Egypt, Lycinus. All the free-born boys plait it until they come of age it's just the opposite to our ancestors, who thought it comely for old men to fasten up their hair in a knot, vnth a golden cicada-brooch to hold it.
;

^ 2

iXevOepov Solanus iX^vdipiov MSS. AlyxnTTioLS O. AlyviTTias FN.


: :

433

THE WORKS OF LUCIAN


Eu
ye,
CO TijjLoXae,

sAMinnoL on rjjjids

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GvyypaiJLfjidrajv,

a iv

dvafJuixv^aKeis rojv rco TrpooLfMLO)

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ATKINOL
4

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d7TXL(f)dr)

vvv dvp,vriad7)v , ottoOcv 'ASet/xavTOS", ore irapd rov larov

7TL

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/cat
/cciAcuv,

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.

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8'

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Kat /xoAa
5 TTaXaiarpav
SoKely
rjv

ttojs

KaraXd^ajfiev.

dvewyvZav en ttjv dXXd fxera^v Xoycov,

434

THE SHIP OR THE WISHES


SAMIPPUS

Good, Timolaus you remind me of Thucydides, where he writes in the introduction to his work about
;

our ancient luxury among the lonians, when the people of that time went away to found colonies
together.^

LYCINUS

remember where Adimantus left us, Oh, now Samippus when we stood a long time by the mast, looking up and counting the layers of hide, and marvelling at the sailor going up among the shrouds and then running quite safely along the yardarm up there holding on to the ropes.
I
:

SAMIPPUS

Good! Then what must we do now? Wait for him here ? Or would you like me to go back again
to the ship
?

TIMOLAUS

He has probably already Oh, go passed us, rushing off to the city, when he couldn't find us again. In any case Adimantus knows the road, and there is no danger of his going astray if we desert him. LYCINUS
no, let us
on.
Isn't it rather churlish to

go

off

But

let us

walk on

all

the same,

if

and leave a friend ? Samippus agrees.

SAMIPPUS
Certainly Incidentally,
;

we may
^

find the

gymnasium

still

what a huge

ship!
I, vi.

open.

hundred and
435

Thucydides

THE WORKS OF LUCIAN


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e^ovGa

/cat

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/cat

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at

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togovtov dyecv gZtov,


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yipcov

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TrrjSdXca irepLGTpicjxjjv iSelxdr] yap puoL dva(f)aXavrias TLSt ovXos, "Hpcov, of/xat, Tovvopta.

TIMOAAOE
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ol

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ATKINOE
Ou/c,
oratjLtCl'.

CO

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dXXd vvv

rjSiojs

dv

a/coi;-

436

THE SHIP OR THE WISHES


twenty cubits long, the ship-wright said, and well over a quarter as wide, and from deck to bottom, where it is deepest, in the bilge, twenty-nine. Then, what a tall mast, what a yard to carry What a fore!

How gently the poop curves up, stay to hold it up with a little golden goose below And correspondingly at the opposite end, the prow juts right out in
!

front, with figures of the goddess, Isis, after the ship is named, on either side. And the other
like fire, anchors in front of

whom

and the topsail blazing them, and capstans, and windlasses, and the cabins on the poop all very wonderful to me. You could put the number of She was said to carry sailors at an army of soldiers.
decorations, the paintings

corn enough to feed all Attica for a year. And all this a little old man, a wee fellow, has kept from harm

by turning the huge rudders with a tiny tiller. He was


pointed out to

me a man

with receding curly hair.

Heron was

his

name,

I believe.

TIMOLAUS

wonderful at his job, those aboard said: wiser than Proteus at things to do with the sea. Did you hear how he brought the ship here, what

He was

happened to those on board, and how they were saved by a star ?


LYCINUS

No, Timolaus, but I'd very


^

much
ixera

like to.

Kara Seager

MSS.

437

THE WORKS OF LUCIAN


TIMOAAOS
Sirjyelro fjuoi, XPV^'^^^ dvrjp Kal TrpoaofJuXrjdaL he^Los. (f)rj 8e 0,770 rrjg Oapou aTTapavras ov ttolvu jStatoj TTvevp^ari i^hofjualovs ISelv Tov 'A/ca/Ltavra, etra i^e^vpov avrnrvevacivros drrevexO'rjvaL nXaylovg dxpi StSajvos', CKeldev he

'0 vavKXrjpos avros

fieydXo) TrepiTTeoovras SeKarrj iirl XcAtSoveas Sid rod AuAcovos" iXdelv, evda St) irapd 8 fJLLKpov VTTO^pvx^ovs hvvai aTTavras. otha 8e ttotc TTaparrXevoas Kal avros XeAtSovea? rjXlKov iv rep roTTCp dviararai ro Kvp,a, Kal /xaAtara irepl rov At)3a, OTTorav 7nXd^r] Kal rov vorov Kar eKelvo yap Srj Gvp,^aLVL puepi^eadai rd X{api,(j>vXiov 0,77-0 T-^? AvKiaK-r\ daXdTT7]Sy Kal 6 kXvSojv are dno
XeifJLWVL

pev/Jidrajv dTTO^vpoi Se eloL

TToXXcjv

irepl rep dKpcorripicp axi'^dpievos

vat

Tcp

KXv(jp,aTi

d^etat 7Tapadr]ydp,irerpai Kal (f)o^pajrdTr)v ttjv


rroiel

Kal

rd Kvpua KvpLarcjyrjV 9 TToXXaKLs avrcp iGopiiyedes rep GKoneXw. roiavra KoX G<f)ds KaraXapeXv ecjyaoKev d vavKXripos en Kal vvKrdg ovg7]s Kal t,d<l>ov aKpi^ovs. dXXd TTpds rrjv olpcoyrjv avrcov eTTiKXaadevras rovs deovs rrvp
Kal
rjxov

rov

pueyav,

koI

re dvaSei^ai dnd rrjg AvKtas, (hs yvwpiaai rov rdrrov eKelvov, Kal riva Xapurpdv darepa Alogkovpcov rdv erepov eiriKadioai rep /capp^i^ctoj Kal Karevdvvai rrjV vavv eirl rd Aata es rd rreXayog rovvrevBev Se rep Kpr]p,vcp irpooejiepopLevriv TJSrj aTTof Tr]s dpdrjs eKireoovras hid rod Alyaiov
.

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43^

THE SHIP OR THE WISHES


TIMOLAUS
a good man, and told me good company. When they left Pharos, he said, the wind was not very strong, and they sighted Acamas Then it blew against them from the in seven days. west, and they were driven abeam to Sidon. After Sidon a severe storm broke and carried them through Aulon to reach the Chelidonenses on the tenth day. There they were all nearly drowned. I myself have sailed by the Chelidonenses, and I know the size of the waves there, especially in a sou 'westerly

The captain himself

gale with a touch of south this, you see, happens to be where the Pamphylian and Lycian seas divide.
;

The

driven by numerous currents and is split the rocks are knife-edged, razorsharp at the sea's edge. So the breakers are terrifying and make a great din, and the wave is often as
swell
is

on the headland

high as the cliff itself. This is what the captain said they found when it was still night and pitch dark. But the gods were moved by their lamentations, and showed fire from Lycia, so that they knew the place. One of the Dioscuri ^ put a bright star ^ on the masthead, and guided the ship in a turn to port into the open sea, just as it was driving on to the cliff. Then, having now lost their course, they sailed across the Aegean beating up with the trade winds against

them, and yesterday, seventy days after leaving Egypt, they anchored in Piraeus, after being driven
^

Castor and Pollux, guides to mariners.


St.

Elmo's Fire.

43^

THE WORKS OF LUCIAN


Karw, ovs
^

TTjv

MoAeav TrXevaavras

eSet rrjv Kpnjrrjv Se^iav Xa^ovras virep etvai iv 'IroAta. 17817

N17

Ata,
rj

AYKINOS davfidaLov nva (fyrjs


rov
NT^pecos"

"Hpcova
10

d7Ta(l)dXr] ttjs oSov. fJUaVTOS Klv6s CCTTt;

KVpepm^rrjv rov 6s roaovrov aXXd ri rovro ; ovk 'ASetrjXiKLcvrrjv,

TIMOAAOS
Yidw
ovv.
fjiV

ovv, 'ASei/xavTos" avros.


ere
<;^i7/xt

iixPo-qawfJiev

*A8et/xavT,

rov MvppLvovaiov rov

TiTpOfM^LXOV.

ATKINOi;
AvLV
ecrrt.

ddrepovy
rjSr]

KKKa)(f)a)TaL.

Haw

hvcrxcpalvei KaO* rjfjiwv 'ASet/xavTO? ydp, ovk aAAos"


ri

7)
rt's"

cra^o)? opcD, /cat OolfxdrLov

avrov

Kal TO ^dhiajjba Klvov, /cat ev X/^4^ V f<ovpd. 7TLriV(xjp,v 8e oficDS rov TT^piirarov y ojs /caraAajScu11 piV avrov. rov Ipuarlov Xa^opievoL G r^v jjut)
7narpei/jcjoixv,
<L

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/cat

ovx

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TjpXv

^oaxjLv, avvvoLa<s nvos

dXXd
ov

(f)povrL^ovri

eoiKas

iirl

TTpdypLa, COS 80/cet?,

puiKpov ovhk dvaKVKXcov.

evKara<j)p6vrirov

AAEIMANTOS
AvKive, x^^'^ov, dXXd p, Kvri ris evvoia /xera^u ^aSu^ovra vrreXOovoa TrapaKovaai vpicov TToirjoev dreves irpos avrrjv drravrL rw Xo-

OvSeVy

CO

yiopiO) dno^XeTTOvra.
^

Trjv
*

Reitz

rov

MSS.
:

VTTaKovai Jacobitz

vrraKOvaeis

MSS.

449

THE SHIP OR THE WISHES


so far

downwind.

starboard, and sailed


Italy

They should have kept Crete beyond Malea so as to be


LYCINUS

to
in

by now.
that's an amazing pilot you speak Heron, as old as Nereus,^ who went so far

Upon my word,
of, this

astray.

But what's

this

Is that

not Adimantus

TIMOLAUS

Adimantus himself. Let's give him a You Of Myrrinous Stromshout, Adimantus


So
it is
;
!
!

bichus's son

LYCINUS

Well, either he's annoyed with us or he's gone deaf. It's certainly Adimantus and no other. I see

him now quite

We

plainly his cloak, his walk, his closeLet's put on speed, anyhow, and catch him up. crop. shall have to pull you back by your cloak, Adi-

mantus you take no notice when we shout. You seem thoughtful, as though you're turning over something serious and important in your mind.
;

ADIMANTUS

Nothing bothersome, Lycinus an empty notion came into my head as I was walking along and made me deaf to your shouting, I was so wrapped up in my
;

thoughts.
^

The

old

man

of the sea.

441

THE WORKS OF LUCIAN


ATKINOS
Tls avTTj
idTt,
;

fir)

yap
^

OKvrfarjS

etVeti^,

el

firj

tLs

rwv

TTOivv

aTTOpprjTOjv.

KairoL

ireXecrdrnjiev,

d)S olada, /cat

aiydv

/xe/xa^rj/ca/Acy.

AAEIMANTOE
'AAA'
ovTOJ

alaxvvopLaL

eycuye

ctVetv

TTpos

vpudg,

yap ficLpaKLwBes vpZv Sdfet to

<f>p6vrLoyLa.

ATKINOE
Moiv ipojTLKov TL OTLV ; ovhk yap ovhe rovro dfjLvqTOLs rjfjblv ^ayopeva eis dAAa vtto XapLirpa ttj
SoBl
/cat

avTOLS rereXcGfjuevoLS.

AAEIMANTOS
OifSev, CO davp,daiy tolovtov,
ijjiavTcp

oAAa rtva ttXovtov

TToAAot

dv7rXaTr6ixr)v , t^v Kcvrjv jjuaKaplav ot KaXovcjLVy /cttt fiOL v aKfjufj T^? TTepLovoLas

/cat Tpv<l>r\s 7TGrr]r.

ATKIN02
12

OvKovv TO TTpox^iporarov rovro, koivos


(f)aGL,

'Ep/xcty

/cat es"

fxeaov /carart^et

(j)epojv

rov irXovrov.

d^LOV yap diroXavaai ro fiepos 'ASeLfidvrov rpv<fyfjs.

<f)iXovs

ovras

ty\s

AAEIMANTOE
vjjlojv evOvg iv rfj npcorr) ? vavv iTn^dcrei, CTret ae, (L Avklvc, Karearrjoa c? TO dorcfyaXes. Trepifxerpovvros ydp fxov rijs dyKvpa? ro Trdxos ovk ot8* ottou zJ/xct? dTrearrjre. 13 'I8ct>v 8c ofjLcos rd TTavra rjpopLrjv nvd rcov vavrijjv, OTToarjv diroi^epei rj vavs rep SeoTTOTry cl>s"

*AnXL<l)drjv

jxev

r7)v

aiyav Solanus

ad y'dv

MSS.

44

THE SHIP OR THE WISHES


LYCINUS

What was it ?
forbidden to
tell

Don't be shy, unless it's completely We've been initiated, as you it.

know, and learnt to hold our tongues.


ADIMANTUS
I'm ashamed to
childish idea.
tell

you.

You

will

think

it

such a

LYCINUS

Nothing to do with love, is it? You certainly won't be telling it to the unenlightened too have been initiated, under a torch which was blazing
!

We

ADIMANTUS

was just Nothing of that kind, my dear fellow. It " a dream of wealth what everybody calls empty bliss ", and you caught me at the height of my fortune and luxury.

LYCINUS

Well, that's very simple. Share your luck, as they say; bring your wealth and pool it. His friends should enjoy their part of Adimantus's luxury.

ADIMANTUS
as soon as we were on board, Lycinus, after bringing you there safely. I was measuring the width of the anchors when you went off somewhere. All the same I looked at everything and then asked one of the sailors what
I

was separated from you

TToAAoi

TNO

naXaiol other

MSS.
443

THE WORKS OF LUCIAN


7tI

to ttoXv Kar
fxoiy

eros eKaarov ttjv ixio6o(f)opiav.

AcoSeAca, ^17, 'Arrt/ca raAavra, el rrpo? TOvXdxi'CFTOv Tis Xoyl^oiTO. rovvrevdev ovv iiravLcbv iXoycCofxrjv, el rig decjv rr]v olov dv, ojs elvai,

6 Se

vavv
Kal

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ev

ttoicjv

tovs

<f>LXovs

iTTiTrXecov
iKTrefjUTTCJV.

ivLore

fjuev

auros",

ivlore

8e

OLKeras

ctra K
TJSrj

Twv ScoSeKa
TTjV

eKeivojv raXavrcov olKiav re

coKoSoixT]GdiJirjv iv iiriKaipcp

yuKpov vnep

ttjv

TTapd Tov ^IXlggov Keiv7)V Tr)V Trarpayav d(f)is, Kal OLKeras (hvovfxrjv /cat iodrjrag Kal C^vyr] Kal Ittttovs. wvl he iqS-q Kal errXeov V(f>*
UoLKiX'qv,
diravTUiv evhaipLoviI^opievos

twv ein^arwv

<f)o^ep6s

rots vavrais Kal ptovovovxl ^acriXevs vofiL^ofxevog. en he jxol rd /caret ttjv vavv evderll^ovrL Kal eg
Xifxeva TToppwdev aTTO^XeirovrL eTTiordg, o) AvKlve^

Karehvaas rov ttXovtov Kal dverpeijjas ev TO oKd<f>os ovpLO) T^s" ev)(7Js TTvevpuarL.

<f)ep6p,evov

ATKINOi:
14

OvKovv, CO yevvale, Xa^ofievos /xou dnaye Trpds rov orparriydv ws riva TreLparrjv iq KaraTTOvrLanjv, o rrjXiKovrov vavdyiov ctpyacr/xat, /cat ravra ev rd dorv. dXXd opa yfj Kara rr]v e/c WeipaLcas es OTTWS TTapajJLvdrjGOfJLai gov rd 7Tralop,a' Trevre yap, el jSouAet, KaXXiU) Kal fiel^oj rov Alyvrrrlov ttXoLov Kal rd fjueyiarov ovhe KaraSvvai Svvdpieva, 'qhrj e)(e, Kal rdxcL ool irevraKis e^ Alyvnrov Kar eros
eKacrrov OLraycDyeiroioav aLraycoylav,
.

el

Kal,

vavKXiqpojv dpiare, hrjXos el dcfydprjrog rjfjuv rore o? ydp en evds rrXoiov rovrovl yevr]o6fjievog
SecTTTorrjs cov

napi^Koves ^ocjvrojv,

el rrevre

Kr'^aaio

444

THE SHIP OR THE WISHES


income the ship brought "
year.
in to its

owner

in

of twelve Attic talents," he Then I went back on shore and mused on replied. what a happy life I should have had if of a sudden some god had made the ship mine I would have
:

A minimum

an average

and sailed in her myself sometimes, and sometimes sent my servants. Then with some of the twelve talents I had already built myself a house in a good spot just above the Painted Arcade,^ giving up the family house by the Ilissus and I was buying servants and clothes and carriages and horses. Just now I was at sea, the envy of the passengers and the terror of the crew they thought me almost a king. I was still settling her affairs and gazing at the harbour in the distance when you turned up, Lycinus. You sank my wealth and capsized my bark just when she was sailing well before the fair wind of my wish.
helped

my

friends,

LYCINUS

Well, my noble sir, arrest me and take me off to the general as a pirate or a rogue who tipped you overboard and made such a wreck of her and that on shore on the road from Piraeus to town. But look, I'll make amends for my mistake take here and now, if you will, five ships better and bigger than the Egyptian and, best of all, unsinkable. Let them bring perhaps five times the cargo of corn from Egypt every year, even if, most glorious of shipovniers, you then become unbearable to us, as you clearly will. When you still owned this one ship you couldn't hear our shouts, and if you get five more, all three-masters

In Athens.

445

THE WORKS OF LUCIAN


TT-pos"

oi/jeL

hr]Xahr)

TovTcp rpidpixeva Trdvra Kal dvcoXedpa, ovSe rovs (J)lXovs. gv /xev ovv euT^Adet, c5

^ peXriare, rjfJLels 8e iv HeipaLel Kadehovpieda rovs cf AlyvTrrov t] 'IraAta? KaraTrXeovras dvaKpivovTs, t 7TOV ro /xcya ^ASeipAvrov ttXolov T7]v ^Iglv

AAEIMANTOE
15
Sta rovro wkvovv eLTretv d ivcvoovv, *0/)a?; elSojs on v yeXojTL /cat GKwfjLfiart, TroL-qaeode jiov
TTjv

evx^lV'

o}or CTncrra? puLKpov, Gt


,

dv

vp^els

7rpox(^pT]cr7]T

dTTOTrXevoovpiai ttoXlv iirl rijs v(x)S.


ri

TToXv
vpLOJV

yap

dpLLvov Tols vavrais irpooXaXelv

v(f>

KarayeXdadaL.

ATKIN02
MrjSapLcvs,
77t

GvvepLPrjGopLedd

aoi

Kal

avrol

TnardvTs.^

AAEIMANTOi:
'AAAct
V(j)aipri(TOJ Tr]v

diro^dBpav TTpoeiaeXdojv.

ATKINOi:
OvKovv r)pLLS ye rrpoGmj^op^eOa vpuv. pirj yap otov Gol p>V clvai paSiov TqXLKavra rrXola KraGdai Se pLTJre vavir-qyir^GapLeva) , rfpLCis fjLTjTC TTpiapLevcp
ovK alrrjGopiev irapd tcjv deojv ttI ttoXXovs Gra^ /cat hiovs dKpLrJTCS hvvaGOaL velv ; Kairoi TTpip-qv iv iirl ? Atytvav rrjv rijg ^KvoSlas reXerrjv, oluda,
rfXiKO)
GKa(j)LSlci) navreg a/xa ol (f)iXoi rerrdpcuv eKaGTos opoXdJv SieTrXevGapiev, /cat ovSev iSvGX^'

paives r)p,ds GvpuTrXeovras, vvv 8c dyava/crct?, 1 So Dindorf koX rovs MSS. * viroaravrts MSS. iTTiaravres Guyet * rrpwrov MSS. TTpwTjv Jacobs and Lobeck
: : :

et

446

THE SHIP OR THE WISHES


and indestructible too, you'll obviously not even see your friends. A good voyage to you, good friend We shall sit in Piraeus and ask new arrivals from Egypt or Italy if anyone has seen Adimantus's big
I

ship the

"

Isis

"

anywhere.

ADIMANTUS

why I hesitated to tell you what I was thinking. I knew that you would laugh and make fun of my wish. So I'll stay with you a little until you go on, and then sail away again on

You

see?

That's

my

ship.

It's

much

better to talk to sailors than be

laughed at by you.
LYCINUS

Don't do that. with you.

We'll stay too and go on board

ADIMANTUS

Then

I shall

go on board
LYCINUS

first

and

pull

up the

gangway.
Well,

we

shall

swim

to you.

Surely you don't

imagine that it's easy for you to get ships of that size without buying or building them, while we will not ask the gods to grant us the power to swim many miles without getting tired ? Besides, two days ago

we sailed over to Aegina to the rites of Our Lady of the Crossroads ,1 you know, in a little boat, all friends
together at four obols each. You didn't object at all to our sailing with you. But now do you resent our going on board with you, and are you embarking
^

Enodia, Hecate.

447

THE WORKS OF LUCIAN


cruvejjupTjGoiJLedd gol,

Kal tt^v airo^ddpav TrpocLaeXc5

dwv
is

d(f>aLpLS

virepyia^as yap,
TTTveis,

*A8et)LtavT, /cat
<jl)V

Tov koXttov ov

ovSe oloda ooris

vavKXrjpels. ovrcog iTrrjpe ere rj OLKLa iu kolXo) ttjs TToXeujs OLKobofjLrjdeLaa Kal tojv aKoXovdcov to
TrXrjOos.

oAA' (Lyadiy irpos rrjs "IcrtSos" Kav ra ravra rapix^ ra Xeirrd /xe/xi^cro 7]pX,v dyeiv an AlyvTrrov rj jjivpov dno rod KavcoTrou rj

NetAoia

LpLV K Me/Lt^tSos", el Se

rj

vavs iSvvaro,

/cat

Ta)V

TTvpafMcSajv iilav.

TIMOAAOE
16

AvKLve. opag, wg ipvdpidv 'ASet/xayrov inoirjGas ttoXXo) tco yeXiori 7nKXvaa9 TO ttXoIov, a>? virepavrXov elvai /cat [jl7]Ktl

"AXis

TTtttSta?,

CO

dvTCXetV TTpOS TO 7TLppOV;

Kat

7TL7rp Tt TToXv rjfJUV

TO

AotTTOl^ eOTtl^ TTpOS

SieXofJievoL rerpax'^ tt^v oSov Kara rovs ^ araSiovs alrcj/jiev dnep 7n^dXXovTas eKdaro) dv SoKTJ Trapd rojv Oecov. ovtoj yap dv rjfjids 6 t /ca/xaTO? XdOoL /cat a/xa v<j)pavovpLeda ayoirep rfhiarcp oveipari KovcrLcp TrepLTreaovre?, i<f)* doov

TO duTU,

^ovXopLeOa, V TTOLrjaovri rjpLas' Trap' avrcp yap iKdarcx) earoj ^ to fjuerpov tt}? V)(7JSy /cat ot ^eot irdvra VTroKeiaOojaav Trapd^ovreg, et /cat rfj c/iVGeL diridava eorai. ro 8e fxeyiorov, evriSet^ts' earat

TO TrpdypLa ootls dv dpiGTa ;)^y07^o'atTO to/ ttAouto) Kat TY] evxfj, B7]Xa)GL yap olos dv /cat TrXovTiJGas
iyevcTo
^
.

eKaoTui Fritzsche confirmed

by F tVaorto

(sic)

Kaaros

other MSS.

448

THE SHIP OR THE WISHES


full

and taking the gangplank away? You're too of beans, Adimantus, and you don't spit in your bosom,^ and you don't remember who you are, you
first

shipowner. You're so elated with your house, well situated as regards the city, and your crowd of
retainers.

remember
from
carry

But, good friend, in the name of Isis to bring us those delicate pickled Nile fish Egypt, perfume from Canopus, or an ibis from

my

Memphis, and one of the Pyramids


it.

if

the ship can

TIMOLAUS

made Adimantus
can't

That's enough joking, Lycinus. Look how you've blush and overwhelmed his ship in a flood of laughter so that she's waterlogged and

keep the sea out any more. we've still some way to go to the city, so let us divide the journey into four, and each of us in his allotted furlongs ask the gods for whatever he wants. In this way we shan't notice the journey and at the same time we shall enjoy ourselves with a pleasant

Now

dream of our own choosing to bless us as long as we desire. Each one may decide the measure of his
wish, and the gods may be supposed to grant even if it is in essence improbable. Best of all
it all,

it

will
it

show who would use his wealth and wish best, for will show what sort of a man he would have been he had been rich.
^

if

Against bad hick.


earco add. Fritzsche.

449
VOL. VI.

THE WORKS OF LUCIAN


EAMinnoE
17

KaXcbs,

o)

TtjLtdAae, /cat TreidofjuaL aoi Kal

orav

o Kaipo? KoXij, v^ofiai direp dv et fxev yap Soktj. ^ KheijjiavTos povXeraL, ovSe ipojrdv oi)aat, 6s ye ^^ '^^^ hrj v rfj vrjt rov erepov noSa
^1.

XPV

AVKLVO) 8oKLV.

ATKINOE
AAAa
TrXovrcjiiev,
rats'
ct

tovto

dixeivov,

llt)

Kal

paoKaiveiv v

KOLvaLs

UTi';^tats"

ookco.

AAEIMANTOE
Tls yovv TTptoTOs apteral ;

ATKINOE
'ASet/xarrc, cira /Ltcra ak ovtogI 2actra TtjLtoAaos", eyd) he oXiyov oaov TjIXLaraOLov to irpo rod AlttvXov iTnX-qtJ/ofjLaL rfj cvxfj, Kal TOVTO COS" olov T TTapaSpapLcov.

2u,

cS

/xtTTTTo?,

AAEIMANTOL
18

OvKovv iyoj iJLev ovSe vvv aTToarijaoiiaL Trjg VecOS, dXX\ 7TL7Tp ^OTLV, 7TLlieTpT]aa) TT] VV7}.
o o
EjpfjLTjs

yap TO

ttXoIov Kal

o Kcpocpos eiTivevoaTO) airaGLv. ecrra) ra iv avTW iravTa /xa Kal 6

<f>6pTos ol fjLTTopoL at yvvaLKcs ol P'ai'Tat xrat ct TL "i^hiaTov KTripLaraiv diravTajv.

aAAo

LAMinnos
AeXrjdas Geavrov excov iv
tjj mrft.

AAEIMANTOE
lov
TratSa
(^t^s",

a>

]Sa/xt777r6,

rov
8e

Kopu'^Tr^v.

KaKCLVOS

OVV

eOTW

[Jl6s.

OTTOaOS

TTVpOS

450

THE SHIP OR THE WISHES


SAMIPPUS

Good, Timolaus. I agree. When the time comes I don't think we need I shall wish for what I want. even ask Adimantus if he is willing he has one foot in the ship as it is. But Lycinus must agree.

LYCINUS
Well, if it's better so let us be rich. I'm not going to be envious amid your universal good-fortune.

ADIMANTUS
Well, who'll be
first?

LYCINUS
then, after you, Samippus here ; then Timolaus. I'll take about the last half-furlong before the Dipylon for my wish, even though I run

You, Adimantus

through

it

as quickly as I can.

ADIMANTUS

Indeed shan't desert my ship even now. Well, I'll add to my prayer since I'm allowed. May Hermes Lord of Profit give his consent to all May the ship and all in her be mine cargo, merchants, women, sailors, and every sweetest treasure in the
I

world

SAMIPPUS

You've forgotten something that you have on


board.

ADIMANTUS

You mean
hair.

May

the boy, Samippus, the one with long he be mine too! And let her cargo of
451

THE WORKS OF LUCIAN


evSov
iariv,
7TcarjiJiov

ovros 6 dpLOjxos aTras" ycvecrdojy tooovtoi SapeiKol.

^^/avatov

ATKINOE
19

Tt TOVTO, CO A^eifJuavTC ; KaraSvaeral aoi to nXoLOVy ov yap laov pdpos irvpov Koi rov laaplOfMov
Xpvaiov.

AAEIMANTOE
M17
oXr)v
<f)d6vL,
7)

(L

AVKLVC,

oAA'

eTTCihaV

19

TTapiXOrj

el deXcig, evx^jt Trfv Ildpvrjda KLvr]v,

xp^^^

TTOL'qaas ex^,

Kaycb onjjTrriaopiaL ooi.

ATKINOL
'AAA*
vTrkp

aa^aAcia? tovto
fjirj

7roLr](7dp,r]v,

(Ls

ycoy ttJ? orfjs aTToXiadai diravras pier a rov

XPVCTLOV.

Kal

TCL pLV

8e

TO

(hpalov

VpLTpa pLrpLa, TO pLCLpdKLOV dTTOTTVLy-qoerai ddXiov velv ovk

7r LcrrdpLevov .

TIMOAAOE
ol 8X(f>LVg yap avro vttoSdppL, Svvres i^oLOOVGLV iirl Tr)v yrjv. rj vopii^eis Kidapo)Sov p,iv TLva GwOijvaL Trap* avraJv Kal aTToXa^elv Tov fJLLcrdov dvTL rrjg coSrj^ Kal vcKpov tl aXXo inl hX(f)LV09 op^oLCug TTaihCov ? rov ^ladjiov ^ rov TTpooKopnodrjvai, rov 8e Kheipidvrov oiKerrjv
J)

AvKLve.

vecjvrjTOV aTToprjoeiv SeX<f>Lvog epayriKov

AAEIMANTOS
Kat
petS"

ydpy Tt/xoAac, /xt/xg AvkZvov Kal ctti/xctra)v GKcop^pbdrajv, Kal ravra clarjyrjrrj? avros
OX)

yevofievo? ;

452

THE SHIP OR THE WISHES


wheat be changed
darics.

entirely

to

minted gold,

all

LYCINUS

Adimantus? Your ship will sink. The weight of wheat and an equivalent volume of
What's
is

this,

gold

not the same.

ADIMANTUS
Don't grudge it, Lycinus. When you come to your wish, make Parnes there, if you want, all of gold and have it so. I shan't say a word.
LYCINUS

was thinking of your own safety, to avoid the loss of all hands with the gold. Indeed your prayer is moderate, but your pretty boy, poor wretch, will drown, not knowing how to swim.
I

TIMOLAUS

Cheer up, Lycinus. The dolphins will swim up under him and carry him to shore. A lyre-player ^ was saved by them and received the reward of his ^ song, and the body of another boy was taken in the same way to the Isthmus on a dolphin's back, so do you think Adimantus 's newly-bought servant will be
in -want of a loving dolphin
?

ADIMANTUS
You're copying Lycinus, Timolaus. You're piling up the quips. It was your idea, you know.
^

Arion.

Melicertes.

453

THE WORKS OF LUCIAN


TIMOAAOE
20
"Afieivov yap rjv TnOavwrepov avro TTOieZv /cat Tiva 9r](javp6v vtto rfj kXlvtj dvevpetv, cos" fJirj TTpdyp^ara exois K rod ttXolov /xeraTi^ets" XP^^^^^
S TO doTV.
Et; XeyeiSi

AAEIMANTOS

kol dvopojpvxdco d-qoavpog vtto tov TOV 6s idTLV rjfjuv v TTJ avXfj, XlOlvov, 'EpjLt'jJv evdvs ovv /caret /xeSt/xi^ot ;)(tAtot 7norjpLOV xp^^^ov. TOV *]\GiohoV oIkOS to TTpCJTOV, (hs dv 77107] [XOTaTa rrdvTa wvr^GdfxrjV OLKOL-qv, /cat ra Trepl to daTV
rjSr]

ttXtjv

doa

dvjJLOV /cat XlOol,^

/cat

iv 'EAcutrtvt

oora 7tI daXaTTT) /cat Trepl tov ^ladfiov oXiya tcov dyojvcjv VKa, et ttot hrj ra "laOfXia TTLBr]iJ,'q~
crat/xt,

/cat

to Hlkvcovlov
t)

ttcSlov, /cat oAcos" t ttov

VKapTTOV V Tjj Tj 'EAAaSt, TrdvTa iv oXiycp 'ASet/xavrou ecrrat. o Xpvaos Se kolXos rjfjuv c/x^ayctv, ra 8e c/CTTcu/xara ov Kov(f)a (1)9 TO, 'E;^e/cparous", oAAd SiTdXavTOv
TL
Tj

GVVT]p(f)S

wSpOV

l/cacrroy ttjv oXktJv.

ATKINOS

21

Efra

TTcos
t)

/C77CU/xa;

6 olvoxoos dpe^et TrXrjpeg ovtco ^apv gv Se^rj Trap* avTov dfjioy-qrl ov gkv;

^oVy oAAa YiLGV(j)i6v Tt pdpos dvahiSovTos

AAEIMANTOS
"AvdpojTre,

Kat Tas
/cAtVa?

dvdiXve ttjv evx^^v- iyd) Se /cat ras' TpaTTeL,as oXag xP'^^ds TroirjGOfjLaL
[IT]
jJiOL

p^puaa?,

et

8e

/xt^

GLCoTnJGr),

/cat

rou?

Sta/coi'ous' aiJrous'.
^ * 3

So
/xoi

om.

dvfxov
:

oaa

ladfiol /cai vvOoi ACl.

Fritzsche /xe ras add. Halm.

MSS.

454

THE SHIP OR THE WISHES


TIMOLAUS
Better make it more credible and find some treasure under your bed. Then you won't have trouble in transferring the gold from the ship to Athens.

ADIMANTUS
You're quite right. Let treasure be dug up under the stone Hermes that's in my court, a thousand bushels of minted gold. Then immediately a house, as Hesiod says,^ first, that I may be housed most I have splendidly. already bought up all the land round the Acropolis, except for the thyme and stones, and the sea-front at Eleusis, and a few acres round
the Isthmtis for the games, in case I want to see them In short every there, and the plain of Sicyon.
well-watered, or fruitful spot in soon belong to Adimantus. Let us have gold plate to eat from, and goblets not light-weight pieces like those of Echecrates, but two talents each
thickly-shaded,

Greece

will

in weight.

LYCINUS

the cup-bearer serve a full goblet as heavy as that? And how will you take it from him without an effort ? It won't be a cup he offers, but a weight as heavy as Sisyphus 's rock ^
will
!

Then how

ADIMANTUS
don't pick my wish to pieces. I'll make my tables of solid gold too and my couches of gold and, if you don't keep quiet, my servants as well.

Man,

^
2

Works and Days, 405. Sisyphus was condemned to


from where
it

roll

a rock up to the top of a

hill,

eternally rolls

back again.

455

THE WORKS OF LUCIAN


ATKINOi;
flOVOV [MTj (x)G7Tp Tip MtSot /Cttt O apTOS OOL Kol TO TTOTOV ;^pucros" yevqraL /cat ttXovtwv ddXiog OLTToXr) Xljjlo) hLa(j)dapels TToXvreXeZ.

"Opa

AAEIMANTOE
22
To.

aa

oXiyov,

pvOp^ielg Tndavcorepov, lo Af/ctv, jLter' 7ret8av avrog alrfjs. eadrj^ iirl tovtols

aXovpyls Koi 6 ^ios olos a^poraros , vttvos i(f)* oaov T^Storros", <f>iXa)v irpooohoL /cat ScTJcct? /cat to dnavras VTroTTTrjoroetv /cat TrpoaKwelv, /cat ot /acv eojOev irpos rais dvpais dvco /cat Kara) TrepiTTar'qGovaiv, iv avTols Se /cat KAeatVcTOS" /cat At^jjLOKpLTOS ol Trdw, /cat TTpoGeXdovcnv ye avrol^ /cdt 77/30 tcSj' dXXcDV elaSexd'TJvaL d^touat dvpwpol irTrd (j>Gr<jjTes", evfxeyedeLs pdp^apoi, TTpooapa^drcxJcrav ig ro pLerwTTOV vdv TTjv dvpav, Ota vvv avrol ttolovglv. iyd) Se, OTTOTav So^rj, TrpoKviJjag wanep 6 'qXios ^ KLV(i)v pikv ouS' cTTtjSAe^o/xat viovs, t Se TtS"
iyd) rrpo rod B7]oavpov, <j)iXo"^v TOVTOV /cat Xovcrdfievov TJKeiv KcXevaw ol 8e dTTOTTviyriaovrai ot rrjv ojpav eirl ro helTTVov. TrAouotot opcovres o^^/xaTa, lttttovs koL iralhas (vpalovg OGOV 8lgx(^Xlov9, i^ dTrdarjg lyAt/cta? o Tt 23 Trep ro dvOrjporarov. etra SetTTva inl "x^pvoov , rdpLXOS evreXrjs yap 6 dpyvpos /cat ov Kar ip^e
rrevrjs,

olos

<f)povri(JoiJiai

p,V

i^ ^ip-qpias, olvos Se i^ 'iToAtas", eXatov he e^ ^l^ripias /cat rovro, p^eXi 8e rqp^erepov ro dTTVpov,
/cat

Kol oipa iravraxpOev


TTrrjvd, opvLS
/c

oves
/cat

/cat

Xayd)S kol 60a


'IvSta? /cat

OaotSo?

raws e^

dXeKrpvd)v 6 No/xaSt/cds" ot Se aKevdl^ovres eKaora


ao(j)LGrai rives rrepl 7Tep,para /cat p^u/xou? e^ovres.

456

THE SHIP OR THE WISHES


LYCINUS

Take care you don't become a Midas and have your bread and drink turned to gold, and wretched in your riches perish, destroyed by a famine of superabundance.

ADIMANTUS

more convincingly, requests in a moment. To go on, my dress will be of purple and my life the height of luxury, my sleep the sweetest possible. Friends will come and ask for favours and they'll all bow down and grovel. Some of them will be walking up and down by my doors from dawn, among them Cleaenetus and Democritus, those great men, and,
You'll

arrange your

affairs

Lycinus,

when you make your

when they come and demand to be let in first, seven porters will stand there, tall barbarians, who will slam the door right in their faces, as they now do themselves. When I think fit I shall look out, like the rising Some of them I shall not even look at, but if sun. there is a poor man there, as I was before my treasure, I shall show him favour and bid him bathe and come back to dinner at the right time. But the others, the rich, will choke with envy when they see my carriages and horses and pretty slave-boys, two thousand of them, the flower of every age. Then dinners on gold silver is cheap and unworthy of me

a pickled fish from Spain, wine from Italy, oil from Spain, as well, our own fresh Attic honey, meat from all parts boar, and hare, and a variety of game-birds a pheasant from Phasis, a peacock from India, and a guinea cock and my several cooks will be experts in sweetmeats and sauces. If I demand a cup or a bowl

CTTijSAti/rofiai

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26

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THE SHIP OR THE WISHES


and pledge a guest, let him drink and take the cup away with him. The rich men of today are clearly all Dionicus will never again Iruses ^ compared to me. show his little silver platter or cup in the procession, especially when he sees that my servants use so much
For the city this would be my allocation: by way of doles, a hundred drachmas to every citizen per month, half of this to a resident alien and for the general public theatres and baths to beautify the city; the sea brought up to the Dipylon and a harbour in that region with water brought up by a deep canal, so that my ship may anchor near by in
silver.
;

For you, my friends, I'd full view of the Ceramicus. have told the steward to make an allotment of minted
gold: twenty bushels for Samippus, five quarts for Timolaus, and one quart for Lycinus levelled off with a strickle at that, because he's a babbler and makes fun of my prayer. This is the life I wish to live, extravagant in wealth and luxury, enjoying every pleasure in fullest measure. I have spoken, and

may Hermes

bring

it

to fulfilment

LYCINUS

Do you know, Adimantus, by what


thin thread
all this

exceedingly
If
it

wealth

is

hanging ?
will

snaps,

then

all is

gone and your treasure


ADIMANTUS

be ashes. ^

What do you mean, Lycinus?


^

Irus, the beggar in the Odyssey. Proverbial.

MSS:

xP^ato

Warmington
:

8i7/.ioaia

oaa Fritzsche

(v. ch. 23, init.). Brj^ioaia es KaXXos

(om. oaa)

MSS.

459

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THE SHIP OR THE WISHES


LYCINUS

you

you don't know how long with your wealth. Who knows that when your golden table is beside you, before you can put out your hand and sample the peacock or your guinea cock, you will not breathe out your little bit of soul and be gone, leaving all that for vultures and ravens ? Would you like me to run through for you those who died at once before they had a chance to
That,

my

fine friend,

will live

who even though they on were robbed of what they had by some spirit malignant in such matters? You have heard, I suppose, of Croesus and Polycrates who became much richer than you and lost all their good things in a moment. But, to let them go, do you think that you will have sure and certain good health ? Don't you see
enjoy their wealth, or some
lived
lives through some unable even to walk, some blind, some with internal trouble ? You would not accept twice the wealth if the effeminacy of the wealthy Phanomachus went with it, I'm sure, even if you deny it. I say nothing of the plots and robberies and envy and hatred by the mob that go with riches. Do you see how much trouble your treasure causes ?

that

many

affliction

some

rich

men live unhappy

ADIMANTUS
You're always against me, Lycinus. Very well, you won't get even a quart, as you've abused my wish to the end.
*
3

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MSS.

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THE SHIP OR THE WISHES


LYCINUS

There you are. Just like most out and calling off your promises.
wish, Samippus.

rich

Now give

men, backing
us your

SAMIPPUS

I'm from the mainland, an Arcadian from Mantinea you know, so I shan't ask for a ship. I could not show it oiF to my fellow-citizens, and I shan't be niggardly with the gods and ask for treasure and measured gold. The gods can do anything, even what seems to be quite stupendous, and the rule of wish which Timolaus laid down was not to hesitate to ask for anything, on the assumption that they will not say no. Well, I ask to be made a king, but not
as

a king like Alexander, Philip's son, or Ptolemy or Mithridates or any of those who inherited their kinga father. No, let me begin as a brigand with about thirty sworn companions, men absolutely trustworthy and full of spirit. Then let them growby degrees to three hundred, a thousand, and soon ten thousand, until the total is some fifty thousand heavy I shall be infantry and about five thousand horse. elected chief by all, because they think me the most able leader and administrator. This very fact is sweet to be greater than other kings, because I've been elected commander by the army on merit, and not inherited the kingdom after someone else has

dom from

done the work


2

that

would be
:

like

Adimantus's
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THE SHIP OR THE WISHES


treasure and not so gratifying as when you see that you have won power by your own effort.

LYCINUS

This is no small demand. Goodness, Samippus You've asked for the essence of every good there is, to have fifty thousand men choose you as most able to command a force like that. What a wonderful king and general Mantinea had bred and didn't know
!

it!

Never mind! Be king and lead your soldiers and muster your cavalry and your heroic shieldbearers. I want to know where you are going with an army of that size from Arcadia and who will be
your
first

unhappy

victims.

SAMIPPUS
Listen, Lycinus, or better
like.
I'll

make you

still come with us if you a cavalry oflicer in the fifty

thousand.
LYCINUS
I

Well, I'm grateful for the honour, your majesty. bow my head in Persian style and do obeisance

sweeping my hands behind me, honouring your upright turban and your diadem. But make one of these mighty men your cavalry officer. I'm dreadfully bad at horses and never sat on a horse in my life before. I'm afraid that when the trumpet blows for action I'll fall off and be trampled on by all those hooves in the throng or the horse may be spirited
;

and take the

bit

between

its

teeth and carry


avrov

me right

avrov Reitz

MSS.

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MSS.

466

THE SHIP OR THE WISHES


among
saddle
if

the enemy or I shall have to be tied to the I'm going to stay up and hold the reins.
;

ADIMANTUS
lead your cavalry, Samippus. Let Lycinus have the right wing. I deserve the best from you in return for all those bushels of minted gold I gave
I'll

you.

SAMIPPUS

Let us ask the cavalry personally, Adimantus, if they will have you as commander. Gentlemen of
the cavalry, those in favour of Adimantus as cavalry officer, raise your hands.

ADIMANTUS

They've voted unanimously, you see, Samippus.


SAMIPPUS
Well, you command the cavalry and let Lycinus have the right. Timolaus here shall take the left. I shall be in the centre as the law lays down for Persian kings when they are with their troops. Let us now advance to Corinth over the hills after a prayer and when we have conquered all of to Royal Zeus Greece we shall have no opposition to our enormous

numbers and have an easy victory we shall embark on triremes, putting the cavalry on horse-transports enough corn and sufficient boats and everything else is ready at Cenchreae let us cross the Aegean to

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Dindorf and Bekker

SiaAajSto/xev

MSS.
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468

THE SHIP OR THE WISHES


Ionia.

There

let us sacrifice to

the

cities easily

capture they are unwalledleave governors

Artemis and

behind, and press on to Syria through Caria first, then Lycia, Pamphylia, Pisidia, Cilicia (both coast and hill areas), until we reach the Euphrates.

LYCINUS

behind as satrap couldn't bear to go You seem to be far away from things at home. pushing on to the Armenians and Parthians, warlike nations, good shots with the bow. So give the right wing to someone else and leave me in Greece like an Antipater.i I don't want anyone to stick me with an arrow hitting some exposed part of my poor body when I'm leading your phalanx near Susa or Bactra.
Please, your Majesty, leave of Greece. I'm a coward and
I

me

SAMIPPUS

You're deserting the levy, Lycinus, you coward. the law to cut the head off anyone seen leaving the ranks. But now that we a:re at the Euphrates, the river has been bridged and all is safe in the rear and I've put prefects over each tribe to keep control of everything. Others meanwhile will go off for us to win over Phoenicia and Palestine and afterwards Egypt too. You cross first, Lycinus, with the right wing, then I, and Timolaus after me; last of all, Adimantus, bring the cavalry. Throughout Mesopotamia not an enemy has met us. They surrendered themselves and their strongholds quite voluntarily.
It's
^

Alexander

left

him
dxpts
:

in

Macedon.

dxpt Jacobitz
dvdpuiiTOL

MSS.
dvdpwnoi MSS.

Fritzsche

469

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Eu
470
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MSS.

THE SHIP OR THE WISHES We came


came
ready
against Babylon unexpectedly and entered the walls and held the city. The King was busy at Ctesiphon when he heard of our approach. Then he
to Seleucia,
all

and

is

summoning and making

the cavalry he can and bowmen and slingers. The scouts report about a million already mustered under arms, including two hundred thousand mounted archers. Yet the Armenians are not yet here nor those

from the Caspian Sea nor the men from Bactra, only those from near at hand and the suburbs of the empire. See how easily he mustered all those thousands. Now it's time for us to consider what to do next.
ADIMANTUS
I say you infantry must be off on the road to Ctesiphon while we cavalry stay here to guard Babylon.

SAMIPPUS

you're

Are you playing the coward too, Adimantus, now What do you think, close to danger?
?

Timolaus

TIMOLAUS

March against the enemy with your

entire

army

and don't wait until the arrival of allies from all around makes them better prepared. No, let us attack the enemy while they are still on the march.
SAMIPPUS

Good

What's your opinion, Lycinus ?


471

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MSS.

472

THE SHIP OR THE WISHES


LYCINUS
are tired with our hard travelyou. Piraeus this morning, and now we have already done thirty stades I suppose, and the sun is hot it's about midday. Let's go over to the olives and sit on that overturned stone there and have a breather. Then when we're recovered we complete the rest of the way to the city.
I will tell

We

ling to

SAMIPPUS
Bless

you

Do you

think you are

still

at

Athens ?

You're stationed on the plain near Babylon outside the walls, one of a mighty army, in a council of war.
LYCINUS

Thanks for the reminder. I thought I was sober and that the idea I was expressing was wideawake.
SAMIPPUS
if you don't mind. Be good danger and don't betray our native spirit The enemy are coining on now, I fancy. So let ^ When the trumpeter Enyalius be our watchword

We'll go on then,

soldiers in

gives the signal, raise the battle-cry, crash your spears against your shields, charge and get to grips with 'em Get under their arrows Don't let them shoot us down at long range Now we're at
!
! !

close quarters and Timolaus and the left have routed those against them Medes they are. There's no

The God of War.

^ ^

So Bekker
avfifil^ai

v ye add. Dindorf. : Kal ov Trapa to <f)aviadai

MSS.
473

Jacobitz

avfiixi^ai

MSS.

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MSS.

474

THE SHIP OR THE WISHES


decision yet in my sector they're Persians here and the king's with them. All the barbarian horse are charging our right. So show your quality, Lycinus, and encourage your men to receive the charge
!

LYCINUS

Oh, what luck! against me, and they've thought


attacking.
shall desert

All the cavalry

me

are charging alone worth


I

Well,

if

they press

me

hard,

fancy I

and run away to the gymnasium and leave you behind still fighting your war.
SAMIPPUS

Don't do that

You
as

on your

side.

Now,

the king in single combat. He is challenging me, and to refuse would be absolutely disgraceful.
LYCINUS

you

are already mastering them see, I am going to fight

Yes, and
It's

you'll be wounded by him in a moment. a royal privilege to be wounded fighting for your

empire.

SAMIPPUS
Still, it's only a sUght wound and not in an exposed place, so the scar won't disfigure me afterwards. But did you see how I charged him and ran him through and his horse too with one throw of my spear, and then cut off his head and stripped him of his diadem and now I am the Great King with everyone doing obeisance? Let the barbarians do obeisance You I'll rule in Greek manner under the

You

are right.

'

vficov

Solanus

17/Mtv

MSS.
475

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476

THE SHIP OR THE WISHES


title

of sole commander.
I

Then think how many

cities I shall

solent to my empire! Of all men I'll punish that rich Cydias in particular: he used to be neigh-

many

found and name after myself, and how shall storm and destroy that have been in-

my

he encroached on my property and drove me from my land.


bour
;

little

by

little

LYCINUS
That's enough, Samippus. Now you've won your big fight it's time for your victory-feast in Babylon I think your empire is six stades long. It is the turn of Timolaus now to wish for whatever he wants.

SAMIPPUS
Well, but, Lycinus, what do you think of
LYCINUS

my wish }

Much more

laborious

and

violent,

Majesty, than Adimantus's. He lived in luxury and bestowed on his fellow-drinkers golden cups of two
talents weight each. You were wounded in single combat and were afraid and anxious night and day you had not only your enemies to fear, but thousands
:

most glorious

of plots and envy from those around you and hatred and flattery not one true friend did you have, but all feigned goodwill for fear or hope. You had not even a phantom enjoyment of your pleasures, only the appearance, purple embroidered with gold, a white ribbon on your brow, and bodyguards to go before you, but otherwise intolerable hardship and
'
TrpoTrivctiv

Gesner and Cobet

nporctvoaevos (or npoTeivcov)

MSS.
477

THE WORKS OF LUCIAN


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478

THE SHIP OR THE WISHES


unpleasantness. Then you must do business with missions from your enemies or pass judgments some tribe or send instructions to your subjects has revolted or some foreign state is invading. You

much

must
one

fear
will

and suspect everything, and in

fine everyself.

count you happy except your own

Besides, it is humiliating that sickness will come to you as to ordinary folk and fever will not set you Death has no fear of your bodyapart as a king guard, but comes when he will and takes you moan:

ing with no respect for your diadem. From what a height you will fall when, jerked from your royal throne, you depart by the same road as the common crowd, all equal as you are driven in the herd of the dead. Above ground you will leave behind a high mound and a lofty tombstone or a pyramid with inscribed corners, honours too late for you to see. Those statues and temples which cities erect to

you, and your great name, all will soon disappear unnoticed and be gone, neglected. But if all remains as long as may be, what enjoyment will now come to one who is beyond feeling? Do you see what further troubles you will have in life from fear, anxiety, and labour, and what will remain with
flatter

you after you depart ? But now it's your turn to make your request, Timolaus, See that you outdo them as we expect from an intelligent man of the world.

TIMOLAUS
Well, Lycinus, see if my wish will be open to censure or possible correction. Gold, treasures and
^

va>

Guyet

vccjs

MSS.

479

THE WORKS OF LUCIAN


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THE SHIP OR THE WISHES


you have rightly censured
bushels of coin, kingdoms, wars and fears for empire I shall not ask for them.

They

than pleasure.

are insecure, full of plots and give more grief I want Hermes to meet me and give
:

me

a set of rings with certain powers

one

is

to

keep

the body always strong and healthy, invulnerable and free from disease, another to make the wearer invisible like the ring of Gyges,^ a third to make me stronger

than thousands of

men and

able easily to carry

by

myself a weight that thousands together could hardly move, and another to lift me flying far above the earth let me have a ring for this as well. Then a

to sleep and open every approach, releasing bolts and bars let one ring do both. But in particular let me have one

ring to put anyone I

want

door as

more, the most delightful of

all, one that when I wear it will make the pretty boys and women and whole peoples fall in love with me no one will fail to love me and think me desirable I shall be on every

tongue.
blessed

Many women \vill hang themselves in despair, boys will be mad for me and think themselves
but glance at one of them, and pine away them. Just let me be better than or Hyacinthus Hylas or Phaon the Chian.^ All these let me have and not for a short time for I shall not Uve the measure of human life but for a thousand
if I
:

for grief if I ignore

years, renewing

my youth and always casting off The story is told in Plato, Republic II, 359d f. Handsome young men of ancient myth.
^

a eiKOTws MSS.

a del. Bekker.

481

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OV aTTaVTCOV S KOpOV. Kal 7761 ypVlJj VTTOTTTCpOV diqpiov 7] (f)olvL^ opveov iv ^IvSols ddearov rols aAAots", iyd) /cat rovro icopcjv dv, Kal rds TTTiyds Se ra? NetAou p,6vos dv rjTnardpLTjv Kal daov ^rqs yrj docKrjroVy Kal et nves dvTLTToSeg Tjpuv OLKOVOL TO VOTLOV TTJS yfj^ T^pLLTOpiOV -)(OVTeS Tt he Kal doTepcov <f)vcnv Kal aeX'qvrjs Kal avTov rjXCov paStcos" eyvojv dv dTraSr^s cov tu) irvpi, Kal TO TrdvTOJV rjStGTOv, avdrjpLepov dyyelXai is BajSuAcuva, TtV ivLKrjaev *0Xvp,7Ti,a, Kal dpiOTriGavTa, el TV^oi,^ ev 2)u/>ta henrvrjoai ev *lTaAta. el Se rts" e-)(Bp6s etrj, dpLvvaaOai, Kal tovtov k tov d(f)avovs
.

TreTpov epL^aXovTa

ttj

KecfyaXfj, cvs 7nTeTpX<f>9aL

to

KpavLov, TOV9 T av (f>L\ov9 ev TTOieiv eTn^eavTa KOLpLwpievoLs avrols to )(pv(Jiov. Kal pbrjv ei Tt?
Lrj TVpOWOS TtXoVGLOS V^pLOTT^S, t) dpdpuevos avTOV daov eirl UTahiovs eiKoaiv d(f)7JKa toIs TraihiKolg Se <j)epeGd ai /cara tCjv Kp-qpLvcov. dv e^rjv ^ elcriovTa dOeaTOV opLiXetv dKcoXvTcos KoipbiaavTa diravTas dvev eKeivcjv puovaiv. olov he

VTTepOTTTTjS

^eXov9

tov9 TToXepLovvTas emoKOTreiv e^co rjv, Kal el ho^eie /xot, vnepaLcopovpevov ; dv toZs TTpoadepievos rjTTTjpievoLS Koipblaas tovs KpaTOvvras viKav Trapelxov toZs <f)evyovoLV dvaKdKelvo

482

THE SHIP OR THE WISHES


old age about every seventeen years, as a snake

sloughs its skin. While I have all this I shall want for nothing: all that others own would be mine as long as I could open doors, put watchmen to sleep, and pass in myself unseen. Whatever remarkable sight there were in India or beyond the North Wind,

whatever precious possession, whatever dainty morsel or pleasant drink, I should not send for them, but fly there myself and enjoy them all to satiety. That winged beast the griffin or the Phoenix bird in India may be unseen by othei*s, but I should see it I alone would know the source of the Nile and how much of the earth is uninhabited and if people live head-downwards in the southern half of the world. Again I should know the nature of the stars and the moon and the sun itself without trouble, being insensitive to fire; sweetest pleasure of all, on the self-same day I should give Babylon the name of the
:

Olympic

victor,

and

after

breakfast

perhaps

in

had an enemy I could pay him out by dropping a stone on his head unseen and cracking his skull my friends I could help by pouring gold on them as they slept. Then if there was a haughty person or a rich and bullying tyrant, I could pick him up and throw him down the cHfFs twenty I could meet my darlings without furlongs off. let or hindrance I'd go in unseen and put everyone
Syria dine in Italy.
:

If I

to sleep but
aloft

them

alone.

What

a wonderful thing,

and out of arrow-shot, to spy on embattled

armies and, if I wished, to support the vanquished and send the victors to sleep and to give victory to
^
2

rvxoi av i^TJv

ND

TvxoLfiL
:

other

MSS.
:

Guyet

dv4^(,v

dv l^eiv

dv

e^ij

AH. 483

THE WORKS OF LUCIAN


arpiijjaoLV
iTTOLOVfJLTJV OLV TOV ijjLa rfv /cat deos

aKpa

koI to oAov, TratStav TCOV avOpCJTTCOV ^toV KoL TTOLVra iSoKovv rolg aAAots". rovro rj evhaiybovia iarl /XT^re CLTToXeadaL ixi^rc imttjs rpoTiijs.

amo

^ povXevdrjvaL SwafjievT], Kal /xaAtcrra jxeO* vyiCLas 45 iv jxaKpo) ro) picp. ri dv alrLdaaio, cS AvKlvy ttjs

evxfjs

AYKINOE
Ovhivy TLOvodai
ttXtjv

ovSe yap dor^aAe? ivavKal virep puvpiovs rrjv lox^v, dAAd KLvo cpijaop.ai ae, el riva aXXov cfSe?
(L

TtjLtdAae.

a.vhpL Trnqvcp

V TooovTOis edveoiv, oaa VTrcpeTrrr]^, yepovra avhpa ovroj TrapaKeKti^Kora rrjv yvayfjurjv^

rjhrj

enl

SaKTuXloV fXLKpOV 6xOVfJLVOVy Opt] oAtt KIVLV OLKpCp rep SaKTvXcp Svvdpevov, iirepaorov Tracrt, Kal ravra ^aXaKpov ovra Kal rrjv piva aip^ov ; drdp ctTre /xot Kal roSe, ri hrj nore ovx ls SaKTuXios diravra ravra Svvarat crot, dAAd roaovrovs TTepirjjjL'
fxivos

paSifj

rrjv

dpiarepdv

7T<f>opriGpLivos

Kara

SaKrvXov eva;

fxaXXov Se VTrepTraUi 6 dpiOp^os, Kal ScT^cjet Kal rrjv Seftdv ovveTTtXa^eLV Kalroi ivos rod dvayKaiordrov TTpoaSel, os ^ nepiOcpicvov G 7TavoL fjuopalvovra rrjv ttoXXt^v ravrrjv Kopv^av
.

diTO^Tjaas,
TTOLTJoai

tj

rovro

fxev

Kal 6 iXXe^opos cKavos

^coporepos TToOeis ;

46

7]hrj

avros ^v^Xl '^^ dv p,ddajp.v ola alrrjoeis dveTrLX-qTrra Kal dveyKXrjra 6 avKo<j)avrcov rovg dXXovs.
rravrcDS,
TTore, d)s
^

*AAAd

TIMOAAOE w AvkIve, Kal

vyieias Jacobitz

vycias

MSS,

THE SHIP OR THE WISHES


fugitives turned
I

back from their


Hfe

flight.

In a word
all

should

make human
I

my

plaything,

things

would be mine and

would be thought by all others a god. This is the supreme bliss which cannot be destroyed or schemed against, being particularly
accompanied by health in a long can you find in my wish, Lycinus ?
LYCINUS
life.

What

fault

man
you

None, Timolaus. It isn't safe to oppose a winged stronger than ten thousand. But I will ask
:

this did you see in all those tribes you flew over any other old man so out of his mind, carried by a little ring and able to move whole mountains with his finger-tip, loved by everyone, even though

he was bald and snub-nosed ? But tell me this why cannot just one ring do all this for you ? Why must you go about weighed down by such a load of rings on one finger of your left hand? There are too many, and your right hand must take its share. Yet there is one more ring you most certainly need to put on, one which will stop your fooling and wipe away all this drivel. Or perhaps a stronger dose of hellebore than usual will be adequate ?
:

TIMOLAUS

Well now it's your turn to wish, Lycinus. Let us see what you who cavil against everybody else can find to ask that no one can censure or pull to pieces.
'

irpoaSei os edd.

rrpos Slos

MSS.
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ATKINOS
'AAA' ov Seo/xat VX'rJ9 iyo). TJKOfjiev yap hrj irpos ro AIttvXov, Kal 6 ^eXnoTOS ovrool TidfjumTog

BapvXcova /xovo ju,a;)^a>y, /cat ov, w Tt/xdAae, dpiGTCJV fxev v SujOta, henrvcbv he iv 'IraAta Kal TOLS iyiol iTTL^aXXovGL araStot? Kare^p-qGaade KoXcos 7TOiovvTS. dXXcos T ovK dv he^aipiriv TrXovT'qGas 7r' oXlyov VTTiqvep^Lov riva ttXovtov
dfjicj)!

dvidadai pier oXiyov iJjlXtjv ttjv pdl^av iodicjDV, ola vp,L9 TTelaeade /xer' oAtyov, 7rt8ay tj ei)8at/xovta
IJiv

vos, avTol 8e /carajSavrc?

vpZv Kal 6 TToXvs ttXovtos olx^Tai dnoTTTdpLedno rcjv Orjcravpajv re

StaSi^jLtarcuv woirep e^ r)SiaTov oveiparos dveypopevoi dvopioia rd eirl ttJs" olklcls evpiaKr^re ojGTTep ol Tov? ^aGiXeZs VTroKpLVOfievoL rpaycoSol e^eXdovres diro rod dedrpov Xipuxyrrovres ol ttoXXol, ^ Kal ravra npo oXiyov Ayajxep^voves ovres '^ Kpeovres. XviT'qoeode ovv, ws to etfco?, Kal SvodpeoTOi eoeode rd eirl ttjs OLKtag, Kal pdXiora oVy (X) Tt/xoAae, oirorav Serj ae ro avro Tradeiv rep ^iKdpcp rijs TTrepcoaeojg SiaXvOeLor]? Karaireoovra K rov ovpavov ^ap^al ^ahil^eLv diroXeoavra rovs SaKrvXlovs eKeivovs diravras diroppvevras rdv 'haKrvXoiv. epol he Kal rovro iKavov dvrl TrdvrcDV 6r]oavpd)V Kal Ba^vXcvvos avrijs ro yeXdoat pudXa r)Se(i)s 0' ols v/xet? r^rrjoare roiovroig ovgl, Kal

Kal

ravra

<j)iXoGo^iav eTraivovvres .

486

THE SHIP OR THE WISHES


LYCINUS
don't need a wish. Look, we've reached the Dipylon, and our excellent Samippus is in single combat over Babylon, you, Timolaus, are breakI

fasting in Syria

and dining in

Italy,

and you have used


little

Besides while with dream-treasure, and then be cross when there was soon but plain barley-cake to eat. That's what you'll find soon when your happiness and your great wealth take wings and are gone and you have to come back from your treasures and your diadems just as you are, like sleepers awaking after a pleasant dream, and you find how different things are at home, like tragic actors who play the part of kings and for the most part starve when off the stage, although just now they were Agamemnons or Creons. So you'll be sorry, in all probability, and displeased with things at home, especially you, Timolaus, when you suffer the fate of Icarus and your wings dissolve, and falling from heaven you must walk on earth, having lost all those Instead of rings which have slipped off your fingers. all your treasures and Babylon itself I have what is enough for me a good laugh at the sort of thing that you have asked for, for all that you praise

up
I

my share of road, for which I'm grateful.

should not Uke to be rich for a

philosophy.

487

INDEX
Abdera, city in Thrace,
Abderite, 5
3,

Alexis, comic poet, 179 Amphipolis, city in Thrace, 53

Academy, grove on the


Athens, 243

outskirts of

Acanias, westernmost promontory of Cyprus, 439 Achaeans, the Greeks before Troy,

235
Achaeus, tragic poet, 179 Achaia, province of Greece, 21 Achilles, hero of the Iliad, 21 sq., 57, 175, 323; a page's name, 123 Acinaces, Persian sword, in a Scythian oath, 247 Acragas, city in Sicily, 145 Acropolis, of Athens, 455 Actaeon, who saw Artemis batliing, was turned into a stag and torn to pieces by his own dogs, 101 Adimautus, character in The Ship, 431 sqq. Adrasteia (Nemesis), 201 Aeacus, judge of the underworld, 193 Aegean Sea, 313, 439, 467 Aegina, island in the Saronic Gulf, 447 Aerope, mother of Agamemnon, 13 Aeschines, orator, 201 a7id note Aeschylus, dramatist, 223 note Aesop, teller of fables, 413 Aetion, painter, 145 sqq. Afranius Silo, centurion, 37 sq. Agamemnon, king of Mycenae, 13,
Ajax, fought in the Trojan War and committed suicide, 39 Alcaeus of Miletus, wrestler, 15 Alcamenes, sculptor, 65, 295 Alcibiades, Athenian general and statesman, 55, 255 Alexander (the Great), 19, 53, 55 sg., 181 S7., 267, 463, 469 note; his marriage to Roxana, 147 sq.
199, 487

Anacharsis, a Scythian, 241 sqq. Anaxiraenes, of Chios, sopliist, 145 Andromeda, Euripides' tragedy, 3 sq., 9 Antiochianus, petty historian, 45 Antiochus Soter, king of Syria, 49, 163 sqq, Antipater, general, later king of Macedonia, 181, 469 Antisthenes, founder of the Cynic
sect, 287,

289

Aornos,

mountain stronghold between the Swat and Indus rivers,

267 Aphrodite, goddess of love, 135, 395 Apollo, father of Asclepius and god of culture, 27 god of Delphi, 45, 289; ofthe Great Gifts, 109; ode by Dionysius, 177; angered by the Achaeans, 235 Arcadia, 465 Arcadian, 463
;

Archelaiis, actor, 3 Architeles, an Areopagite, 241

Archytas, mathematician and Pythagorean philosopher, 177 Areopagite, a member of the court of Areopagus, 241 Areopagus, court of, 379 Ares, god of war, 13 Argives, 65 Argos, city in the Peloponnese, 143, 205 Argus, many-eyed monster, guard of lo, 17 Ariadne, daughter of Minos, who helped Theseus escape from the labyrinth, 349 Arion, lyric poet, who was thrown overboard from a Corinthian ship and carried ashore by a dolphin, 453 note

489

INDEX
Ariphron, poet, 181 note

Athenian statesman Aristides, called "The Just", 255


Aristobulus,
military

technician

and

historian, 19

Aristodemus, actor, 199 Aristophanes, comic poet, 57 note, 427 note Aristotle, founder of Peripatetic
School, 289, 315, 325, 347, 351, 353, 415

Bactrians, 9 Bellerophon, falsely accused by Proteus' wife, was sent to the king of Lycia, who set him various tasks, which he accomplished successfully, 197 and note Boeotia, 217

Bosporus, 245 Brasidas, Spartan general, 63


Caesarea, seaport in Mauretania, 41 Calchas, prophet with the Achaeans before Troy, 229 Callimachus, poet and prose-writer, 69 Callimorphus, doctor and petty
historian, 27

Armenia, 5, 23, 37, 43, 45, 63 Armenians, 469, 471


Artaxerxes, king of Persia, 55 Artemis, goddess worshipped especially at Ephesus in Ionia, 469 Asclepieum, sanctuary of Asclepius, 331 Asclepius, god of medicine and health, 27, 185, 189; "sons of Asclepius ", i.e. doctors, 241
Asia, 247 Aster, archer, 53

Cambyses, king of Persia, 423 Canopus, city in Egypt, 449


Caria, district of south-western Asia Minor, 143, 469 Caspian Sea, 29, 471 Cassius, Avidius, Roman general, 47 Castalia, sacred spring at Delphi,

Athena, patron goddess of arts and crafts, 297, 421; judge in the Oresteia, 223 and note; goddess of wisdom, 401 Athenian, 23 note, 25, 53, 55, 65, 177, 241 sqq., 421 Athens, 143, 157, 159, 241 sqq., 431, 433, 455 Athos, Mt., headland of Chalcidice,
19 Atreus, father of Agamemnon, 13 Atropus, one of the Fates, 55 and note Atthis, chronological history of Attica, 47 Attic honey, 457; language, 25; orators, 255; people, 245; philosophy, 251; sniff, 419; talents, 445; thyme, 23; wit, 421 Attica, 431 note, 437 Atticist, 31 Augustus, first Roman emperor, 187

237
Castor, see Dioscuri.

Caucasus, Mts. where Prometheus was chained, 419 Ceian, 257 Celtic, 29 Celts, 9, 47, 211 Cenchreae, town near Corinth, 43, 467 Ceos, 145 Ceramicus, a quarter of Athens, 245,

459 Chaerephon, disciple of Socrates, 289 atid note Chaldean, of the Chaldeans, ancient wizards and astrologers, 271 Chaos, personified by Hesiod, 229 Charybdis, whirlpool, 7 note
Chelidonenses,
islands
off

Lycia,

Anion, strait between Cyprus, 439

Cilicia

and

Babylon, 311, 471, 473, 477, 483, 487 Bacchylides, lyric poet, 257 note
Bactra, capital of Bactria, 469, 471 Bactria, northern Afghanistan and part of Russian Turkestan, 311,

423

439 Chian, 481 Chimaera, a monster, part lion, part she-goat, part serpent, 395 Chios, 145 Chrysippus, Stoic philosopher, 289, 315-375 passim, 415 Cilicia, district of southern Asia Minor, 469 Cleaenetus, an Athenian, 457 Cleon, Athenian demagogue, 53, 421

490

INDEX
Cleopatra, queen of Egypt, 199 Clinias, father of Alcibiades, 255 Macedonian noble, who Clitus, saved Alexander the Great's life but was killed by him in a

Daucetas, a Scythian, Anacharsis, 245 Delphi, 289, 373

father

of

drunken quarrel, 53 Clotho, one of the Fates, 55 and


note, 107 Cnidian, 71 Cnidus, 55 note, 73 Coan, 261 Colossus of Rhodes, 35, 395 Conon, a little man, 49 and note Corcyrean, 23 and note Corinth, 27, 43, 143, 311, 313, 315, 345, 431, 467 Corinthian, 5, 43, 143 Cornel Hill, in Corinth, 5, 43, 73 Creon, king of Thebes, 199, 487 Crepereius Calpurnianus, petty historian, 23, 29 Crete, 441 Croesus, rich king of Lydia, defeated 461 by Cyrus of " Persia, 193, lawgiver of Cronus ", Cronosolon, 103 sqq. Cronus, father of Zeus and other Olympians, all of whom except Zeus, according to the myth, he swallowed (a stone was sub-

Delphic tripod, on which the priestess sat to prophesy, 237 Demetrius of Sagalessus, petty historian, 47 Democritus, an Athenian, 457

Demosthenes, Athenian general, 53, 63


Destiny, personified, 203 Dexiphanes, father of Sostrates of Cnidus, 73 Dimaenete, wife of Architeles the Areopagite, 241 sq. Diogenes, Cynic philosopher, 5, 287 Dion, of Heraclea, 277 Dionicus, an Athenian, 459 Dionysius II, tyrant of Syracuse, 177 Dionysodorus, scholar, 183 Dionysus, god of wine, 135, 331; his festival, 221, 363 and note; Dionysiac liberties, 427 Dioscuri, twin gods Castor and Pollux, 439 and note Dipsads, 77 sqq. Dipylon, gate of Athens, 243, 451,
459, 487 Dorian mode, in music, 217

by his mother Rhea); later he was forced to disgorge them and was ejected from his throne, 89 sqq.
stituted for Zeus

Croton city in Italy, 197 Ctesias, of Cnidus, 55 note Ctesiphon, city on the Tigris, 471 Cupid, god of love, 433; Loves, 147 sq.; slave-boys, 35 Cybele, see Great Mother. Cydias, an Athenian, 477 Cyllarabis, in Argos, 205 Cynic, follower of Antisthenes,
293 Cyprus, 393 Cyrus the Great, king of Persia, 423
Danaids, maidens who murdered their husbands and as a punishment in Hades were set to fill a leaky jar with water, 83, 375
Darius, king of Persia, father of Xerxes, 423 Darius, king of Persia, father of Cyrus and Artaxerxes, 35

Echecrates, mentioned in Hermotimus, 409; mentioned in The Ship, 455 Edessa, town in Osroene, 33, 37 Egypt, 25, 81, 209, 247, 423 sq., 433, 439, 445, 449, 469 Egyptian, 345, 423, 431 sq., 445 Eleans, 65 Eleusis, city of Attica, 455 Elis, in the Peloponnese, 337 Empedocles, philosopher, 175 note Enodia, see Hecate. Enyalius, god of havoc, 39, 473 Epicurean, 287, 291, 327 sq., 353,

387 Epicurus, philosopher, 179, 309353 passim Epigenes of Sicyon, tragic poet, 362
note

Epimetheus, brother of Prometheus, 427 and note Epipolae, flat ridge behind Syracuse, 53, 69

Epu-us. 183

491

INDEX
Ethiopia, 25, 319 Ethiopian, 317, 325 Euandridas, an Elean, 337 Euclid, Athenian archon, 401 and
note Eucrates, mentioned in Hermotimus, 281 Eumenes of Cardia, principal secretary and keeper of the Royal Journal to Alexander the Great, 181

Euphorion, poet and prose-writer, 69 Euphrates, B,., 35, 37 7iote Euripides, dramatist, 3, 175, 205

and note
Europus, city on the middle Eu-

Euthydemus,

phrates, 31, 35, 37 note, 41 Peripatetic philosopher, 281 sq.

Fate, Fates, 55 note, 107, 203, 271

Fortune, personified, 203 Fronto, tutor of M. Aurelius and L. Verus, 31


Galatians, Gallic invaders of Asia

Minor, 163

sqq.,

183
tribe,

Garamantes, Libyan

77 sqq.

Gelo, tyrant of Syracuse, 323 sq. Georgia, 63 note Getans, Thracian tribe, 9, 241 note Gibraltar (" Pillars of Hercules "),

Hephaestion, Macedonian noble and friend of Alexander the Great, 147 Hephaestus, god of fire and the smithy, 297 Hera, Queen of Heaven, 139 Heraclea, one of several Greek towns, 277 Heracles, demigod, 17, 35, 199, 273 "successor of Heracles", sq.; 15 and note " Bestower ", 109; of the Hermes, " Lord of underworld, 197; Profit", 451; figure of, 455 Hermocrates, Syracusan statesman and general, 53 Hermotimus, a Stoic, 261 sqq. Herodicus, trainer, 49 Herodotus, historian, 5, 29, 57, 67, 143 sq., 149 sq., 213 note, 241 note " Isis ", Heron, helmsman of the 437, 441 Hesiod, didactic poet, 33 note, 95, 229 sqq., 263, 265, 305, 427 note, 455 and note Hestia, goddess of the hearth, 325 Hippias, sophist, 145 Hippocentaur, mythical creature, half-horse, half-man, 157 sqq., 395 Hippoclides, Athenian who danced away his marriage, 213 and note Hippocrates, physician, 260 note

267 Glaucus, boxer, 151; son of Minos,

Homer,

235 note God of Havoc, see Enyalius. Gorgon (Medusa), monster, 29, 395 Graces, goddesses of charm, 21, 39, 135, 327, 395 Great King of Persia, see Persian King. Great Mother (Cybele), 107 Greece, 143, 145, 157, 241, 245-251, 393, 455, 467, 469 Gyges, king of Lydia, 481 and note Gylippus, Spartan general, 53

7, 13, 23, 33, 57, 61, 63, 69, 95, 97, 121, 131, 157, 167, 179, 197, 200, 203, 211, 231, 233, 253, 265, 283, 293 note, 313, 323, 377

Hyacinthus, beautiful boy, loved

by Apollo, accidentally killed by a discus, 481 a page's name, 123 Hydaspes R., tributary of the Indus,
;

19 Hylas, youth pulled into a spring by nymphs because of his beauty,

481

Hymenaeus, god of marriages, 147


Hyperboreans,
mythical people dwelling beyond the North Wind, 311, 483

Harmonides, pipe-player, 217 Heaven, see Uranus.


note

sqq.

Hecate, goddess of cross-roads, 447


Hector, Trojan hero, 23, 323 Helen of Troy, 195 Helius, sun-god, 121

lapetus, father of Prometheus, Epi-

metheus and others, 99 Iberia, modern Georgia, 43, 63, 457 Iccus, trainer, 49
Hissus R., near Athens, 445

492

INDEX
India, 47, 123, 267, 311, 393, 457,

483
47 Indian, Indus R., 47 Ionia, 21, 469 Ionian, 435; mode, in music, 217; Sea, 313 Ionic, dialect, 27, 29, 145 Irus, beggar in the Odyssey, 459 Isis, goddess and name of the vessel in The Ship, 437, 447, 449 Isodotus, father of Nicostratus, 15 Issus, town in Cilicia, where Alexander defeated the Persians, 181 Ister, the Lower Danube, 81 Isthmus of Corinth, 453, 455 Italic words, 25
9,

Malchion, a Syrian, 41 Malea, Cape on S, Eastern tip of Greece, 159, 441 Mantinea, city in Arcadia, 463, 465 Marathon, scene of Athenian victory over Persian army, 177 Margites, a fool, 293 Marsyas, satyr or silenus, beaten by Apollo in a musical contest, 219 Mauretania, area in N. Africa, 41 Mausacas, a Moor, 41
off by Jason and killed their children, 205, 397 Medes, 473 Media, 45, 63 Medusa, the Gorgon, 4 Melicertes, son of Athamas and Ino who leaped into the sea with him to prevent his murder at the hands of his father; mother and son became sea-deities, 453 Memphis, city in Egypt, 449 Menecrates, father of Hermotimus, 357 Menelaus, king of Sparta, 253 Mesopotamia, country between the Tigris and Euphrates, 35 sq., 45, 469 Micio, pupil of Zeuxis, 163 Midas, legendary Phrygian king, 193, 457; a servant's name, 281

Medea, carried

Italy, 55, 63, 147, 159, 441, 447, 457, 483, 487 Ixion, attached to a revolving wheel for attempting the chastity

of Hera, 69, 139


Jason, the Argonaut, 397

^jonios, for

"

Saturninus ",31
See also Sparti-

Lacedaemon, 143.
ates, Sparta.

Lagos, father of Ptolemy I Soter, 183 Latin, 25, 31, 185 Leotrophides, a little man, 49 Lerna, town near Argos, 43 Lethe, river of forgetfulness, 197 Leucanian, 177 Libya, 77 S7Q. Long Walls, from Athens to Piraeus, 25 Love, 229. See also Cupid, Lycia, district of S. Asia Minor, 439, 469 Lycian, 439 Lycinus, i.e. Lucian, 229 sqq., 261 SQQ., 431 sqq. Lydia, area in W. Asia Minor, 17 Lydian mode, in music, 217 Lynceus, Argonaut of exceptionally keen sight, 299 Lysimachus, king of Thrace, 3

sq.

Miletus, 23 Milo, a strong man, 49, 151 Minos, father of Glaucus, 235 and note Mithridates, king of Pontus, 463 Momus, fault-finding personified,

297 sq. Moorish, 41 Muses, 13, 21, 27, 57, 145, 229 sqq. Muziris, port on W. coast of India, 47
Myrrinous, deme in Attica, 431, 441 Mysians, tribe living on the Danube, 63 Mysteries, secret cult, 267
Narcissus, a page's name, 123 Nereus, old sea god, 441 Nestor, aged Greek chieftain

Myron, sculptor, 295

Macedonia, 149, 251, 469 note Macedonian, 167 Maenads, frenzied devotees Dionysus, 101

at

of

Troy, 283 Nicaea, a fictitious city, 45 Nicander, poet, 83 and note

493

INDEX
Nicias, Athenian general, 53, 177 Nicostratus, athlete, 15 and note Nile R., 81, 449, 483 Nisaean, of the plain in N. Media, famous for its horses, 55 Nisibis, city of Mesopotamia, 23 sq. Numidian, of Numidia, country in N. Africa, 457, 461

Parthian, 23, 27, 37, 43, 47, 469 Parthonicica, title of Demetrius's history, 47 Parysatis, wife of Darius Ochus, 35 Pausanias, traveller, 15 note Pelasgicum, space in Athens under the Acropolis, 25

Ocellus, of Lucania, Pythagorean,

177 Odysseus, hero of the Odyssey, 175, 371; his companions, 131

Oeta Mt., in S. Thessaly, 273, 275, 279 Olympia, in Elis, 145, 147, 151, 225, 337, 343 Olympiad, space of four years between successive Olympic Games, 267 Olympic Games. 145, 149; honour, 145; victor, 51, 483 Olympus, a bard, 219 Olynthus, city in Chalcidice, 53 Omphale, mythical Lydian queen

Peloponnesian War, 37, 177 note] great plague in, 241 Pentagram, Pythagorean symbol, 179 Pentheus, king of Thebes, torn to pieces by Maenads, 101 Perdiccas, Macedonian noble, 49 Pericles, Athenian statesman, 37, 255 Peripatetics, followers of Aristotle in philosophy, 281, 287, 291 Perseus, son of Danae, cut of Medusa's head and rescued Andromeda from a sea-monster*
3,

whom

Heracles served, 17

Persia, 43, 55 note Persian, 29, 63, 145, 321, 465, 467, 475; Persian king, 21, 25, 471, 475. See also s. Artaxerxes,

companion of Alexander the Great, 55 Orestes, son of Agamemnon, 223


Onesicritus,

Cambyses, Cyrus, Darius. Phanomachus, a rich effeminate,


461
Chios, in love of whos beauty Sappho is said to ha\ eaped off a rock, 481 Pharos, island near Alexanc famous for its lighthouse, 71, 43 Phasis, river in Colchis, 457 Phidias, Athenian sculptor, 6J 295, 361, 363 Philemon, comic poet, 181 Philip, of Macedon, father of Alex< ander, 5, 53, 463
Philippides, or Phidippides, Athen ian courier, 177 Philo, correspondent of Lucian,
J

note

Phaon of

Orpheus, famous singer of myth; he was killed and torn to pieces by Thracian Bacchantes; 101 Osroes, Parthian commander-inchief, 29, 33, 45 Our Lady of the Crossroads, see Hecate. Oxydraci, Indian people, 47 Oxyrhoes, i.e. Osroes, 29
Pactolus, river of Lydia famous for

193 Painted Arcade, in Athens, 445 Palestine, 469 Pamphylia, district of S. Asia Minor, 439, 469 two festivals at Panathenaea, Athens, the lesser celebrated the every greater annually, fourth year, 267 Paraetonia, rocky coast of Libya, 73 Parnes, mountain north of Athens, 453 Parthenius, elegiac poet, 69
its gold,

note, 3, 7, 33, 43

Philolaus, a Pythagorean, 179 Phineus, king of Salmydessus, l famous soothsayer, 229 Phoenicia, coastal district of Syria 469 Phoenix, mythical Indian bir< which lived for five hundred* years and then cremated itself, another bird arising from the ashes, 483 Phrontis, i.e. Fronto, 31

494

INDEX
Phrygian mode, in music, 217
Piraeus, port of Atliens, 243, 431, 439, 445, 447, 473 Pisa, town of Elis, situated near

Roman, 23
159

sq.,

29

sq.,

41, 45, 63,

Roxana, Bactrian princess, wife of Alexander the Great, 147 sq.


Sabinus, Lucian's correspondent, 193 Salaethus, of Croton, 197 Samippus, character in The Ship, 431 sqq. Samosata, town in Syria, Lucian's birthplace, 37 Saturnalia, feast of Cronos, 87 Roman P. Saturninus, Furius, general, 31 of 51 Thessaly, Scotussa, city Scythia, 241 sqq. Scythian, 241 sqq., 321 Seleucia, city on the Tigris, 471 Seleucus, companion of Alexander the Great and first King of Syria, 51, 183 Severianus, Roman commander at Elegeia, 33, 37 Sicily, 53 sq., 177, 323, 393 Sicyon, town west of Corinth, 455 Sidon, city of Plioenicia, 439 Sinope, port of Bithynia, birthplace of Diogenes the Cynic, 5 Sisyphus, son of Aeolus, 455 and
note Socrates, the Athenian, 289 note,

Olympia, 151
Pisidia, district of S. Asia Minor,

469
Plato, the philosopher, 85, 177, 181, 287, 289, 309, 315, 319 sqq., 347, 351 sq., 375, 415, 481 note

Platonism, 325
Platonists, 291, 329, 353, 387 Pleiades, the constellation, 229 Pollux, see Dioscuri. Polus, tragic rhetorician, 145; actor, 199 Polycrates, rich tyrant of Samos, 461

Polydamas, Olympic victor, 51, 151 Polyidus, Corinthian seer, 229 Polynices, son of Oedipus, 175 Pompeiopolis, city of Bithynia or Cilicia, 23 Porus, Indian king, a man of gigantic stature, defeated by Alexander the Great, 19 Poseidon, god of the sea and earthquakes, 13, 297 Praxiteles, Athenian sculptor, 65 Priscus, Roman general, 31 Prodicus, soplust of Ceos, 145 who the Titan, Prometheus, fashioned man from clay and gave fire to mortals, 419 sqq. Proteus, a sea-god, 437 Proxenides, chief judge at Olympia, 147, 149
Ptolemy, son of Lagus, companion of Alexander the Great, and later King of Egypt, 183, 423; any successor of the above, 463
Pylos, place in Messenia, 63

353
Solon, Athenian sage

and

states-

man, 249

sqq.

Pyramids, in Egypt, 449 Pyrrhus, king of Epirus, 183

and Pytiiagoras, philosopher mystic, 177, 315, 321, 327, 347,


351 sq., 375 Pythagoreans, 287 Pythian, of Delphi, 177
Quaternion, the Pythagorean perfect number, 179 Quintilian, 15 note

Sostratus, architect of Cnidus, 73 Sparta, 223 Spartiates, 177 Sphacteria, island off Messenia, 177 Stesichorus, lyric poet, 195 note Stoa, porch in Athens where Zeno taught, 413 sq. of Zeno, Stoicism, philosophy Chrysippus, and their followers, 319 Stoics, 281 sqq., 315, 319, 325 sqq., 353, 365, 387, 401 sq., 413 sq. Strombichus, father of Adimantus, 441
Sulla,

Roman

general

and

dictator,

159
Siu-a,

town on the Euphrates, 43

Rhea, wife of Cronus q.v., 95 Rhodes, 165

Susa, capital of Persia, 469 Syracusans, 55

495

INDEX
Syracuse, city of Sicily, 69, 323
sq.

Syria, 43, 45, 483, 487 Syrian, 33, 41, 253 Syrtis, the Greater, part of the great

bay between Tunisia and Cyrenaica, 81

Tantalus, father of Pelops, eternally deprived of water and food, which are kept out of his reach,
69, 81 sq.

Timolaus, character in The Ship, 431 sqq. Timotheus, teacher of Harmonides, 217 sqq. Tirynthian, of Tiryns, town of Argos, birthplace of Heracles, 175 Titan, a pre-Olympian god, 35, 93, 419
Titanios, i.e. Titianus, 31 Titianus, general of Verus, 31

Tartarus, place of punishment in the lower world, 95 sq.

Titormus, a strong man, 49


Tityus,

condemned

Telemachus, son of Odysseus, 253


note

punishment
69

to eternal for assaulting Leto,

Telemus, a prophet, 229 Teucer, the Greek archer, 313 Thasian, of Thasos, island in the N. Aegean, 51 Theagenes, Olympic victor, 51

Toxaris, a Scythian, 241 sqq. Troy, 195, 235 Truth, personified, 55

Thebes 219 Theodotus, of Rhodes, 165 Theognis, elegiac poet, 205 Theon, trainer, 49 Theopompus, historian, 71 Theoxenus, writer, 251 Thersites, impudent, ugly Greek before Troy, 21 sq. Theseus, slayer of the Minotaur,
349
Thespis, a pipe- player, 425 Thessalian, 161 Thracians, 61, 101, 241 note

Uranus, i.e. Heaven, Cronus, 107, 229

father

of

Vologesus III, king of Parthia, 23,

29,45
Western Ocean,
211
i.e.

the Atlantic,

Xenophon,
Zamolxis,

historian, 5, 33, 55

Thucydides, historian, 5, 9, 23, 25, 29, 37, 53, 55, 57, 63 noU, 67, 69, 435 and note Thyestes, brother of Atreus, who
killed Thyestes's children and served them up to him, 97 Tigris R., 29, 45 Timarchus, opponent of Aeschines, 201 and note

Zalmoxis, a Thracian god, 241, 247 Zeno, founder of the Stoic school, 289, 315 Zeus, 13, 37, 61, 89, 91, 95, 97, 99,
123, 125, 129, 131, 137, 255, 265, 315, 337, 467; Giver of Wealth, God of Friendship, 149; 109; God of Strangers, 249; statue of,

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