Lucian, Symposium, Henry Watson Fowler (Translator), Francis George Fowler (Translator), 25

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Lycinus

If you think it is the dinner I care about, reflect upon the story of Oeneus; you will observe that, when he omitted Artemis alone from the Gods to whom he offered sacrifice, she resented it. Homer’s account of it states that he

Forgot or ne’er bethought bim—woeful blindness!

Euripides’s begins,

This land of Calydon, across the gulf

From Pelops land, with all its fertile plains—;

and Sophocles’s,

Upon the tilth of Oeneus Leto’s child,

Far-darting Goddess, loosed a monstrous boar.

Symposium. Lucian. Henry Watson Fowler (Translator), Francis George Fowler (Translator). Medford, MA, USA. 2023-08-01.

Current edition Perseus

A Feast of Lapithae (English) (The Works of Lucian of Samosata, Vol. 4. Fowler, Henry Watson and Fowler, Francis George, translators. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1905.)

Editions (1)

Συμπόσιον ἢ Λαπίθαι Perseus (Lucian, Vol. 1. Harmon, Austin Morris, editor. London: William Heinemann, Ltd.; Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1913.) — 25 focus

Λυκῖνος

εἰ δὲ δείπνου ἕνεκα ὀργίζεσθαί σοι δοκῶ, τὸ κατὰ τὸν Οἰνέα ἐννόησον· ὄψει γὰρ καὶ τὴν Ἄρτεμιν ἀγανακτοῦσαν, ὅτι μόνην αὐτὴν οὐ παρέλαβεν ἐκεῖνος ἐπὶ τὴν θυσίαν τοὺς ἄλλους θεοὺς ἑστιῶν. φησὶ δὲ περὶ αὐτῶν Ὅμηρος ὧδέ πως·
ἢ λάθετʼ ἢ οὐκ ἐνόησεν, ἀάσατο δὲ μέγα θυμῷ·
καὶ Εὐριπίδης·

Καλυδὼν μὲν ἥδε γαῖα, Πελοπίας χθονὸς

ἐν ἀντιπόρθμοις, πεδίʼ ἔχουσʼ εὐδαίμονα.

καὶ Σοφοκλῆς·
συὸς μέγιστον χρῆμʼ ἐπʼ Οἰνέως γύαις

ἀνῆκε Λητοῦς παῖς ἑκηβόλος θεά.

Translations (1)

The Carousal, or the Lapiths Perseus (Lucian, Vol. 1. Harmon, Austin Morris, editor. London: William Heinemann, Ltd.; Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1913.) — 25 focus

LYCINUS

But if you think that I am angry over a mere dinner, call to mind the story of Oeneus and you will see that Artemis herself was angry because she was the only one whom he had not asked to the sacrifice when he entertained all the rest-of the gods. Homer puts it something like this: Whether he forgot or would not, greatly was his soul at fault.¹ Euripides says:

This land is Calydon, lying over seas

From Pelops’ isle; a land of fertile plains.

From the lost Meleager of Euripides. ² And Sophocles:

A boar, a monstrous thing, on Oeneus’ fields

Turned loose Latona’s lass, who kills afar.

From the lost Meleager of Sophocles.

Lucian Symposium 25

Henry Watson Fowler (Translator), Francis George Fowler (Translator)

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