Pseudo-Lucian, Cynicus, ed. Karl Jacobitz, 12

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Κυνικός

χἄπειτα εἰ θηρίου βίον βραχέων δεόμενος καὶ ὀλίγοις χρώμενος δοκῶ σοι ζῆν, κινδυνεύουσιν οἱ θεοὶ καὶ τῶν θηρίων εἶναι χείρονες κατά γε τὸν σὸν λόγον· οὐδενὸς γὰρ δέονται. ἵνα δὲ καταμάθῃς ἀκριβέστερον τό 546 τε ὀλίγων καὶ τὸ πολλῶν δεῖσθαι ποῖον τι ἑκάτερόν ἐστιν, ἐννόησον ὅτι δέονται πλειόνων οὗ μὲν παῖδες τῶν τελείων. αἱ δὲ γυναῖκες τῶν ἀνδρῶν, οἱ δὲ νοσοῦντες τῶν ὑγιαινόντων, καθόλου δὲ πανταχοῦ τὸ χεῖρον τοῦ κρείτ τονος πλειόνων δεῖται. διὰ τοῦτο θεοὶ μὲν οὐδενός, οἱ δὲ ἔγγιστα θεοῖς ἐλαχίστων δέονται.

Cynicus. Pseudo-Lucian. ed. Karl Jacobitz. Leipzig. 1913.

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

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The Cynic 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.) — 12 focus

[12] Moreover, if you think that because I need and use but few things I live the life of a beast, that argument lands you in the conclusion that the Gods are yet lower than the beasts; for they have no needs at all. But to clear your ideas on the comparative merits of great and small needs, you have only to reflect that children have more needs than adults, women than men, the sick than the well, and generally the inferior than the superior. Accordingly, the Gods have no needs, and those men the fewest who are nearest Gods.

Pseudo-Lucian Cynicus 12

ed. Karl Jacobitz

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