Lucian, Juppiter Confutatus, ed. Austin Morris Harmon, 5

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Ζεύς

οὐκ οἶδʼ ὅ τι σοι ταυτὶ βούλεται τὰ ἐρωτήματα.

Κυνίσκος

ἐκεῖνο, ὦ Ζεῦ· καὶ πρὸς τῶν Μοιρῶν καὶ τῆς Εἱμαρμένης μὴ τραχέως μηδὲ πρὸς ὀργὴν ἀκούσῃς μου τἀληθῆ μετὰ παρρησίας λέγοντος. εἰ γὰρ οὕτως ἔχει ταῦτα καὶ πάντων αἱ Μοῖραι κρατοῦσι καὶ οὐδὲν ἂν ὑπʼ οὐδενὸς ἔτι ἀλλαγείη τῶν ἅπαξ δοξάντων αὐταῖς, τίνος ἕνεκα ὑμῖν οἱ ἄνθρωποι θύομεν καὶ ἑκατόμβας προσάγομεν εὐχόμενοι γενέσθαι ἡμῖν παρʼ ὑμῶν τἀγαθά; οὐχ ὁρῶ γὰρ ὅ τι ἂν ἀπολαύσαιμεν τῆς ἐπιμελείας ταύτης, εἰ μήτε τῶν φαύλων ἀποτροπὰς εὑρέσθαι δυνατὸν ἡμῖν ἐκ τῶν εὐχῶν μήτε ἀγαθοῦ τινος θεοσδότου ἐπιτυχεῖν.

Juppiter Confutatus. Lucian. ed. Austin Morris Harmon. Medford, MA. Perseus 4.0.

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Ζεὺς ἐλεγχόμενος (Greek) (Lucian, Vol. 2. Harmon, Austin Morris, editor. London: William Heinemann, Ltd.; Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1915.)

Translations (2)

Zeus Catechized Perseus (Lucian, Vol. 2. Harmon, Austin Morris, editor. London: William Heinemann, Ltd.; Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1915.) — 5 focus

ZEUS

I don’t know what you are driving at with these questions.

CYNISCUS

This, Zeus—and I beg you by the Fates and by Destiny not to hear me with exasperation or anger when I speak the truth boldly. If all this is so, and the Fates rule everything, and nobody can ever change anything that they have once decreed, why do we men sacrifice to you gods and make you great offerings of cattle, praying to receive blessings from you? I really don’t see what benefit we can derive from this precaution, if it is impossible for us through our prayers either to get what is bad averted or to secure any blessing whatever by the gift of the gods.

Zeus Cross-examined Perseus (The Works of Lucian of Samosata, Vol. 3. Fowler, Henry Watson and Fowler, Francis George, translators. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1905.) — 5 focus

Zeus

I do not catch the drift of your questions.

Cyniscus

Come, I will speak my_mind; and in the name of Destiny and the Fates take not my candour amiss. If the case stands thus, if the Fates are mistresses of all, and their decisions unalterable, then why do men sacrifice to you, and bring hecatombs, and pray for good at your hands? If our prayers can neither save us from evil nor procure us any boon from Heaven, I fail to see what we get for our trouble.

Lucian Juppiter Confutatus 5

ed. Austin Morris Harmon

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ZEUS

I don’t know what you are driving at with these questions.

Zeus

I do not catch the drift of your questions.

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Ζεύς οὐκ οἶδʼ ὅ τι σοι ταυτὶ βούλεται τὰ ἐρωτήματα.

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ZEUS I don’t know what you are driving at with these questions.

Zeus I do not catch the drift of your questions.

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Ζεύς

οὐκ οἶδʼ ὅ τι σοι ταυτὶ βούλεται τὰ ἐρωτήματα.

ZEUS

I don’t know what you are driving at with these questions.

Zeus

I do not catch the drift of your questions.