Lucian, Symposium, Henry Watson Fowler (Translator), Francis George Fowler (Translator), 6

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Lycinus

Why, I need not give you the whole list; what you want is the philosophers and men of letters. There was the old Stoic Zenothemis, and with him ‘Labyrinth’ Diphilus; Aristaenetus’s son Zeno is his pupil. The Peripatetics were represented by Cleodemus—the ready, argumentative person—you know him; ‘Sword,’ and ‘Cleaver,’ his disciples call him. And then diere was Hermon the Epicurean; directly he came in, there were queer looks and edgings away in the Stoic contingent; he might have been a parricide or an outlaw, by the way they treated him. These had been asked as Aristaenetus’s personal friends and intimates, under which head come also Histiaeus the literary man and Dionysodorus the rhetorician.

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

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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.)

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Συμπόσιον ἢ Λαπίθαι Perseus (Lucian, Vol. 1. Harmon, Austin Morris, editor. London: William Heinemann, Ltd.; Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1913.) — 6 focus

Λυκῖνος

τοὺς μὲν ἄλλους τί ἄν σοι λέγοιμι; οἱ δὲ ἀπὸ φιλοσοφίας καὶ λόγων, οὕσπερ ἐθέλεις, οἶμαι, ἀκοῦσαι μάλιστα, Ζηνόθεμις ἦν ὁ πρεσβύτης ὁ ἀπὸ τῆς στοᾶς καὶ ξὺν αὐτῷ Δίφιλος ὁ Λαβύρινθος ἐπίκλην, διδάσκαλος οὗτος ὢν τοῦ Ἀρισταινέτου υἱέος τοῦ Ζήνωνος· τῶν δὲ ἀπὸ τοῦ περιπάτου Κλεόδημος, οἶσθα τὸν στωμύλον, τὸν ἐλεγκτικόν, Ξίφος αὐτὸν οἱ μαθηταὶ καὶ Κοπίδα καλοῦσιν. ἀλλὰ καὶ ὁ Ἐπικούρειος Ἕρμων παρῆν, καὶ εἰσελθόντα γε αὐτὸν εὐθὺς ὑπεβλέποντο οἱ Στωϊκοὶ καὶ ἀπεστρέφοντο καὶ δῆλοι ἦσαν ὥς τινα πατραλοίαν καὶ ἐναγῆ μυσαττόμενοι. οὗτοι μὲν αὐτοῦ Ἀρισταινέτου φίλοι καὶ συνήθεις ὄντες παρεκέκληντο ἐπὶ δεῖπνον καὶ ξὺν αὐτοῖς ὁ γραμματικὸς Ἱστιαῖος καὶ ὁ ῥήτωρ Διονυσόδωρος.

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The Carousal, or the Lapiths Perseus (Lucian, Vol. 1. Harmon, Austin Morris, editor. London: William Heinemann, Ltd.; Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1913.) — 6 focus

LYCINUS

Why should I tell you all of them? The philosophers and literary men, whom, I suppose, you are most eager to hear about, were Zenothemis, the old man of the Porch, ¹ and along with him Diphilus, whom they call “Labyrinth,” tutor of Aristaenetus’ boy Zeno. From the Walk ² there was Cleodemus— you know him, the mouthy, argumentative fellow, whom his pupils call “Sword” and “Cleaver.” Hermon the Epicurean was there too, and as he came in the Stoics at once began to glower at him and turn their backs on him; it was clear that they loathed him as they would a parricide or a man under a curse. These men had been asked to dinner as Aristaenetus’ own friends and associates, and also the grammarian Histiaeus and the rhetorician Dionysodorus.

Lucian Symposium 6

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

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