Pseudo-Lucian, Demosthenis encomium, ed. Karl Jacobitz, 2

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[2] πολὺ μέντοι πρότερον, ἔφη, προσειπεῖν τουτονὶ δεόμενος ἥκω - τῇ χειρὶ τὸν Ὅμηρον ἐπιδείξας· 492 ἴστε δή που τὸν ἐν δεξιᾷ τοῦ τῶν Πτολεμαίων νεώ, τὸν καθειμένον τὰς κόμας - προσερῶν τε οὖν αὐτὸν ἀφικόμην, ἔφη, καὶ προσευξόμενος ἀφθόνων διδόναι τῶν ἐπῶν. Εἰ γάρ, ἔφην, ἐν εὐχαῖς τὰ πράγματα εἴη· πάλαι γάρ τοι καὶ αὐτὸς ἐνοχλεῖν μοι δοκῶ τὸν Δημοσθένην ἐπικουρῆσαί τι πρὸς τὴν αὐτοῦ γενέθλιον. εἰ οὖν ἡμῖν ἐπαρκέσοι τὸ εὔχεσθαι, συμβουλοίμην ἄν σοι· κοινὸν γὰρ ἡμῖν τὸ ἕρμαιον. Ἐγὼ μέν, ἔφη, καὶ τῶν νύκτωρ τε καὶ τήμερον πεποιημένων δοκῶ μοι τῆς εὐροίας τὸν Ὅμηρον ἐπιγράψασθαι· θείως γάρ πως καὶ μαντικῶς εἰς τὴν ποίησιν ἐξεβακχεύθην. κρινεῖς δ’ αὐτός· ἐπίτηδες γάρ τοι τουτὶ τὸ γραμματεῖον περιηγόμην, εἰ ἄρα τῷ σχολὴν ἄγοντι τῶν ἑταίρων περιτύχοιμι. δοκεῖς οὖν ἐν καλῷ μοι σὺ τῆς σχολῆς εἶναι.

Demosthenis encomium. Pseudo-Lucian. ed. Karl Jacobitz. Leipzig. 1913.

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Δημοσθένους Ἐγκώμιον (Greek) (Lucian (Pseudo). Luciani Samosatensis Opera, Vol. 3. Jacobitz, Karl, editor. Leipzig: Teuber, 1913.)

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Demosthenes: an Encomium Perseus (The Works of Lucian of Samosata; complete, with exceptions specified in the preface, Vol. 4. Fowler, H. W. and Fowler, F.G., translators. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1905.) — 2 focus

[2] ‘However, I wanted something else much more—an interview with this gentleman’ (and he pointed to the Homer; you know the one on the right of the Ptolemies’ shrine, with the hair hanging loose); ‘I came to greet him, and to pray for a good flow of verse.’ ‘Ah,’ I sighed, ‘if prayers would do it! in that case I should have given Demosthenes a worrying for assistance against his birthday. If prayers availed, I would join my wishes to yours; for the boons we desire are the same.
‘Well, I put down to Homer,’ he replied, ‘my facility of this night and morning; ardours divine and mystic have possessed me. But you shall judge. Here are my tablets, which I have brought with designs upon any idle friend I might light upon; and you, I rejoice to see, are idle.’

Pseudo-Lucian Demosthenis encomium 2

ed. Karl Jacobitz

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