Lucian, III [130] 9780674991446, 0674991443

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THE LOEB CLASSICAL LIBRARY FOUNDED BY JAMES LOEB,

IX.D.

EDITED BY t T. E.

fE. CAPPS, L. A.

POST,

PH.D.,

L.H.D.

PAGE, LL.D.

C.H., LITT.D.

tW.H. D. ROUSE, LITT.D. E. H. WARMINGTON, M.A., F.R.HIST.SOO.

I.UCIAN

m

LUCIAN WITH AN ENGLISH TRANSLATION BY A.

M.

HARMON

OF YALE UNIVERSITY

IN EIGHT

VOLUMES

III

LONDON

WILLIAM HEINEMANN LTD CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS

HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS MCMLX

First printed 1921 Reprinted 1947, 1960

PRINTED

IN

GREAT BRITAIN

CONTENTS PAGE LIST OF LUCIAN'S

WORKS

DEAD

TO

THE

COME

vi

OB

LIFE,

THE

FISHERMAN 1

{Bevivescentes sive Picator)

THE DOUBLE INDICTMENT, OR TRIALS BY JURY {Bis 83

Accusatus sive Trihunalia)

ON SACRIFICES {De

Sacrificus)

153

.

THE IGNORANT BOOK-COLLECTOR {Adversus Indoctum et libros

THE

173

mnltos emeniem)

DREAM,

OR LUCIAN's CAREER

{Somnium

sivB

213

Vita Luciani)

THE PARASITE, PARASITIC AN ART [De Parasito Ariem esse Parasiticam) »

THE LOVER OF

LIES,

sive

235

OR THE DOUBTER {PhUopseudes

sive Incredulus)

THE JUDGEMENT OF THE GODDESSES {Deariim ludiciuvt [Deorum Dialogi ZZ])

319

383

ON SALARIED POSTS IN GREAT HOUSES {De Mercede conductis potentium familiaribus)

INDEX

411

483

WOEKS

LIST OF LUCIAN'S

SHOWING THEIR DIVISION INTO VOLUMES IN THIS EDITION VOLTJME I Hippias or the Bath Dionysus Heracles Amber The Swans The Fly Nigrinus Demonax The Hall My Native Land Octogenarians A True Story I and 11 Slander The Consonants at Law The Carousal or The Lapiths. Phalaris I and II

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VOLUMB

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II

Downward Joiu-ney or The Tyrant— Zeus Catechized—Zeus Rants —The Dream or The Cock — Prometheus — Icaromenippus or The Sky-man —The Timon or The Misanthroi)e— Charon or the Inspector—Philosophies for Sale.

Volume

III

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The Dead Come to Life or The Fisherman The Double Indictment or Trials by Jury On Sacrifices The Ignorant Book Collector The Dream or Lucian's Career The Parasite The Lover of Lies The Judgement of the Goddesses On Salaried Posts in Great Houses.

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Volume IV

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

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Volume V

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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.

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Volume VI

—Dipsades—Saturnalia—Herodotus—Zeuxis—Pro Lapsu— Apologia— Harmonides— Hesiodus— Scytha — Hermotimus — Promethus Es— Navigium. Historia

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Volume VII

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Dialogues of the Dead Dialogues of the Sea Gods Dialogues of the Gods (exc. Deorum Judicium cf. Vol. Ill) Dialogues of the Courtesans.

Volume VIII

—Lucius or the Ass— Amores — —Halcyon——Demosthenes— — Podagra— Ocypus— Cyniscus Philopatris Charidemus Nero. Soloecista

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THE WORKS OF LUCIAN THE DEAD COME TO LIFE, OR THE FISHERMAN This is Lucian's reply to the storm of angry protest which he had evoked from the schoolmen with his Philosophies for Sale (II. 450 ff.)> wherein, to their mind, he had unwarrantably and outrageously ridiculed the ancient philosophers and their doctrines. ^_ The scene is in Athens. The dead who have come to life bent are the ancient philosophers, upon wreaking vengeance on Frankness, which is Lucian's alias here. a formal trial before Philosophy, he conceded Eventually is acquitted on the plea that his ridicule had not been aimed at the ancient worthies but at their unworthy successors of As these impostors cannot be induced to his own time. stand trial, Frankness is empowered to go about and brand them, so that people can tell them from the genuine philosoBefore departing on his mission, he fishes up, with a phers. bait of figs and gold, typical representatives of the chief schools for the inspection of their founders. Lucian's plea is specious, for in Philosophies for Sale he had certainly sliown scant regard for those whom he now But it is not meant professes to hold in such high esteem. to be taken seriously ; it is put forward with a wink at the for the sake of the tables on his critics. audience turning

His new-found deference, moreover, is well seasoned with irony, and quite offset by the pose of urbane and patronizing superiority which he assumes in feigned unconsciousness. The piece is almost all persiflage, and maddeningly unanswerable for that reason.

The dialogue

is strikingly like an Aristophanic comedy in construction, especially in the fact that it has a clearly marked second part, somewhat loosely attached to the first, which develops a series of incidents after the plot has been

its

worked

out. Because of this similarity, and for many other reasons too, none of Lucian's writings better serves to introduce and illustrate the Double Indictment, Avhich follows it.

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