Lucian, Judicium vocalium, ed. Austin Morris Harmon, 7

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[7] ὅθεν δὲ καὶ ἀπὸ τίνων ἀρξάμενον, ὥρα λέγειν. ἐπεδήμουν ποτὲ Κυβέλῳ, — τὸ δέ ἐστι πολίχνιον οὐκ ἀηδές, ἄποικον, ὡς ἔχει λόγος, Ἀθηναίων — ἐπηγόμην δὲ καὶ τὸ κράτιστον Ῥῶ, γειτόνων τὸ βέλτιστον· κατηγόμην δὲ παρὰ κωμῳδιῶν τινι ποιητῇ· Λυσίμαχος ἐκαλεῖτο, Βοιώτιος μέν, ὡς ἐφαίνετο, τὸ γένος ἀνέκαθεν, ἀπὸ μέσης δὲ ἀξιῶν λέγεσθαι τῆς Ἀττικῆς· παρὰ τούτῳ δὴ τῷ ξένῳ τὴν τοῦ Ταῦ τούτου πλεονεξίαν ἐφώρασα· μέχρι μὲν γὰρ ὀλίγοις ἐπεχείρει, τέτταρα κατατολμῶν καὶ¹ τετταράκοντα λέγειν, ἔτι δὲ τήμερον καὶ τὰ ὅμοια ἐπισπώμενον ἴδια ταυτὶ λέγειν, ἀποστεροῦν με τῶν συγγεγενημένων καὶ συντεθραμμένων γραμμάτων, συνήθειαν ᾤμην² καὶ οἰστὸν ἦν μοι τὸ ἄκουσμα καὶ οὐ πάνυ τι ἐδακνόμην ἐπʼ αὐτοῖς.

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

Translations (2)

The Consonants at Law Sigma Vs. Tau, in the Court of the Seven Vowels Perseus (Lucian, Vol. 1. Harmon, Austin Morris, editor. London: William Heinemann, Ltd.; Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1913.) — 7 focus

[7] But this Tau here (I cannot call him by a worse name than his own), who, as Heaven is my witness, could not have made himself heard unless two of your number, Alpha and Upsilon, stout fellows and good to look on, had come to his aid—this Tau, I say, has had the audacity to injure me beyond all precedent in acts of violence, not only ousting me from my hereditary nouns and verbs, but banishing me likewise from conjunctions and prepositions all at once, so that I cannot stand his monstrous greed any longer. Where and how he began it, you shall now hear.

Trial in the Court of Vowels Perseus (The Works of Lucian of Samosata, Vol. 1. Fowler, Henry Watson and Fowler, Francis George, translators. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1905.) — 7 focus

[7] I was once staying at Cybelus, a pleasant little town, said to be an Athenian colony; my travelling companion was the excellent Rho, best of neighbours. My host was a writer of comedies, called Lysimachus; he seems to have been a Boeotian by descent, though he represented himself as coming from the interior of Attica. It was while with him that I first detected Tau’s depredations. For some earlier occasional attempts (as when he took to τετταράκοντα for τεσσαράκοντα, τήμερον for σήμερον, with little pilferings of that sort) I had explained as a trick and peculiarity of pronunciation; I had tolerated the sound without letting it annoy me seriously.

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Δίκη Συμφώνων

1. τέτταρα κατατολμῶν καὶ A.M.H, following Halm (τέτταρα καὶ) and the scholia: not in MSS.

2. τετταράκοντα λέγειν, ἔτι δὲ τήμερον καὶ τὰ ὅμοια ἐπισπώμενον ἴδια ταυτὶ λέγειν, ἀποστεροῦν με τῶν συγγεγενημένων καὶ συντεθραμμένοων γραμμάτων, συνήθειαν ᾤμην Word order (and καὶ for μοι after συγγεγενημένων) Harmon: τετταράκοντα λέγειν, ἀποστεροῦν με τῶν συγγεγενη ἡμένων μοι, σονήθειαν ᾤμην συντεθρααμένων γραμμάτων, ἔτι . . . λέγειν, καὶ οἰστὸν κ.τ.λ. MSS.

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