Lucian, Macrobii, ed. Austin Morris Harmon, 1

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[1] ὄναρ τι τοῦτο, λαμπρότατε Κυίντιλλε, κελευσθεὶς προσφέρω σοι δῶρον τοὺς μακροβίους, πάλαι μὲν τὸ ὄναρ ἰδὼν καὶ ἱστορήσας τοῖς φίλοις, ὅτε ἐτίθεσο τῷ δευτέρῳ σου παιδὶ τοὔνομα· συμβαλεῖν δὲ οὐκ ἔχων τίνας ὁ θεὸς κελεύει μοι προσφέρειν σοι τοὺς μακροβίους, τότε μὲν εὐξάμην τοῖς θεοῖς ἐπὶ μήκιστον ὑμᾶς βιῶναι σέ τε αὐτὸν καὶ παῖδας τοὺς σούς, τοῦτο συμφέρειν νομίζων καὶ σύμπαντι μὲν τῷ τῶν ἀνθρώπων γένει, πρὸ δὲ τῶν ἁπάντων αὐτῷ τε ἐμοὶ καὶ πᾶσι τοῖς ἐμοῖς· καὶ γὰρ κἀμοί τι ἀγαθὸν ἐδόκει προσημαίνειν ὁ θεός.

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Μακρόβιοι (Greek) (Lucian, Vol. 1. Harmon, Austin Morris, editor. London: William Heinemann, Ltd.; Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1913.)

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Octogenerians Perseus (Lucian, Vol. 1. Harmon, Austin Morris, editor. London: William Heinemann, Ltd.; Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1913.) — 1 focus

[1] At the behest of a dream, illustrious Quintillus, I make you a present of the “Octogenarians.” I had the dream and told my friends of it long since, when you were christening your second child. At the time, however, not being able to understand what the god meant by commanding me to “present you the octogenarians,” I merely offered a prayer that you and your children might live very long, thinking that this would benefit not only the whole human race but, more than anyone else, me in person and all my kin; for I too, it seemed, had a blessing predicted for me by the god.

Lucian Macrobii 1

ed. Austin Morris Harmon

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