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:nj f^,^<^ -3/ 41a. THE LOEB CLASSICAL LIBRARY rOUNDED BY JAMES LOEB, LL.D. EDITED BY fT. E. PAGE, C.H., LITT.D. + E. CAPPS, PH.D., LL.D. t W. H. D. ROUSE, litt.d. L. A. POST, l.h.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 1 959 Printed in Grrat Britain CONTENTS PAGE PRKFACE Vii LIST OF LUCIAN'S WORKS ix HOW TO WRITE HISTORY 1 THE DIPSADS 75 SATURNALIA 87 HERODOTUS OB AETION 141 ZEUXIS OR ANTIOCHUS 153 A SLIP OF THE TONGUE IN GREETING 171 APOLOGY FOR THE ' SALARIED POSTS IN GREAT HOUSES ' 191 HARMONIDES 215 A CONVERSATION WITH HESIOD 227 THE SCYTHIAN OR THE CONSUL 239 HERMOTIMUS OR CONCERNING THE SECTS .... 259 ' TO ONE WHO SAID, YOU'RE A PROMETHEUS IN WORDS* 417 THE SHIP OR THE WISHES 429 INDEX 489 PREFACE The new Teubner edition of these pieces has still not appeared and there is no adequate critical edition. In establishing a text I have had access to 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 I several of his and the work ; have used suggestions am grateful for his help and encouragement. vn LIST OF LUCIAN'S WORKS SHOWING THEIR DIVISION INTO VOLUMES IN THIS EDITION Volume I Phalaris I and II—Hippias or the Bath—Dionysus— Heracles—Amber or The Swans—The Fly—Nigrinus— Demonax—The Hall—My Native Land—Octogenarians—A True Story I and II—Slander—The Consonants at Law—The 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 III 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. 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 in Portraiture Defended—The Goddess of Surrye. ix LIST OF LUCIAN'S WORKS Volume V The Passing of Peregrinus—The Runaways—Toxaris or Friendship—The Dance—Lexiphanes—The Eunuch—Astro- logy—The Mistaken Critic—The Parliament of the Gods— The Tyrannicide—Disowned. Volume VI Historia—Dipsades—Saturnalia—Herodotus—Zeuxis—Pro Lapsu—Apologia—Harmonides—Hesiodus—Scytha—Hermo- timus—Prometheus Es—Navigium. Volume VII 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 Soloecista—Lucius or the Ass—Amores—Halcyon—Demos- thenes —Podagra — Ocypus— Cyniscus— Philopatris — Chari- demus—Nero. 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 the commander in 162, destroying the Roman legion ; Roman 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. 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These were its symptoms : at first 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 sweat- but their minds were left in a ridiculous state ; ing ; they all went mad with tragedy, shouting iambics and creating a din; and they mostly sang solos ^ from Euripides' "Andromeda," rendering Perseus' in the was full of these seventh- speech song ; city 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. 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HOW TO WRITE HISTORY " " the Andromeda kept haunting their memory, and his Perseus with Medusa's head still flitted round everyone's brain. To make as they say a comparison, that Abderite complaint has now taken hold of most of the literary world. 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 bar- barians, the disaster in Armenia and the run of victories— is every single person 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 I saw and heard all this, friend, I was reminded of the story of the man of Sinope. When 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 battle- ment and doing various other useful jobs. Diogenes saw as — this, and —he had nothing to do nobody made any use of him he belted up 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.