Pseudo-Lucian, Cynicus, ed. Karl Jacobitz, 15

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Κυνικός

εὔχομαι δέ μοι τοὺς μὲν πόδας ὁπλῶν ἱππείων οὐδὲν διαφέρειν, ὥσπερ φασὶ τοὺς Χείρωνος, αὐτὸς δὲ μὴ δεῖσθαι στρωμάτων ὥσπερ οἱ λέοντες, οὐδὲ τροφῆς δεῖσθαι πολυτελοῦς μᾶλλον ἢ οἱ κύνες· εἴη δέ μοι γῆν μὲν ἅπασαν εὐνὴν αὐτάρκη ἔχειν, οἶκον δὲ τὸν κόσμον νομίζειν, τροφὴν δὲ αἱρεῖσθαι τὴν ῥᾴστην ποοισθῆναι. χρυσοῦ δὲ καὶ ἀργύρου μὴ δεηθείην μήτ’ οὖν ἐγὼ μήτε τῶν ἐμῶν φίλων μηδείς· πάντα γὰρ τὰ κακὰ τοῖς ἀνθρώποις ἐκ τῆς τούτων ἐπιθυμίας φύονται, καὶ στάσεις καὶ πόλεμοι καὶ ἐπιβουλαὶ καὶ σφαγαί. ταυτὶ πάντα πηγὴν ἔχει τὴν ἐπιθυμίαν τοῦ πλείονος: ἀλλ’ ἡμῶν αὕτη ἀπείη, καὶ 548 πλεονεξίας μήποτε ὀρεχθείην, μειονεκτῶν δ’ ἀνέχεσθαι δυναίμην.

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.)

Translations (1)

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.) — 15 focus

[15] My prayer would be that my feet might be just hoofs, like Chiron’s in the story, that I might need bedclothes no more than the lion, and costly food no more than the dog. Let my sufficient bed be the whole earth, my house this universe, and the food of my choice the easiest procurable. May I have no need, I nor any that I call friend, of gold and silver. For all human evils spring from the desire of these, seditions and wars, conspiracies and murders, The fountain of them all is the desire of more. Never be that-desire mine; let me never wish for more than my share, but be content with less.

Pseudo-Lucian Cynicus 15

ed. Karl Jacobitz

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