Lucian, Icaromenippus, ed. Austin Morris Harmon, 28

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Μένιππος

ἄλλοι μέν ῥα θεοί τε καὶ ἀνέρες ἱπποκορυσταὶ

εὗδον παννύχιοι, ἐμὲ δʼ οὐκ ἔχε νήδυμος ὕπνος·

ἀνελογιζόμην γὰρ πολλὰ μὲν καὶ ἄλλα, μάλιστα δὲ ἐκεῖνα, πῶς ἐν τοσούτῳ χρόνῳ ὁ Ἀπόλλων οὐ φύσειε πώγωνα ἢ πῶς γίνοιτο¹ νὺξ ἐν οὐρανῷ τοῦ ἡλίου παρόντος ἀεὶ καὶ συνευωχουμένου.

τότε μὲν οὖν μικρόν τι κατέδαρθον. ἕωθεν δὲ διαναστὰς ὁ Ζεὺς προσέταττε κηρύττειν ἐκκλησίαν.

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Current edition Perseus

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

Translations (2)

Icaromenippus, or the Sky-man Perseus (Lucian, Vol. 2. Harmon, Austin Morris, editor. London: William Heinemann, Ltd.; Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1915.) — 28 focus

MENIPPUS

All the others, the gods and the warriors chariot-owning,

Slept until morning, pus I was unbound by the fetters of slumber,

Iliad2, 1-2. for I was thinking about many things, above all how Apollo had not grown a beard in all this while, and how it gets to be night in Heaven with Helius always there and sharing the feast. Well, as I say, I slept but little that night, and in the early morning Zeus got up and ordered procla-: mation for an assembly to be made.

Icaromenippus, an Aerial Expedition Perseus (The Works of Lucian of Samosata, Vol. 3. Fowler, Henry Watson and Fowler, Francis George, translators. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1905.) — 28 focus

Menippus

Slept all the Gods, and men with plumed helms,

That livelong night; but me kind sleep forsook;

for I had much upon my mind; most of all, how came it that Apollo, in all that time, had never grown a beard? and how was night possible in Heaven, with the sun always there taking his share of the good cheer? So I had but a short nap of it. And in the morning Zeus arose, and bade summon an assembly.

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Ἰκαρομένιππος ἢ Ὑπερνέφελος

1. γίνοιτο Harmon: ἐγίνετο, ἐγένετο MSS.; γίνετα. vulg.

Lucian Icaromenippus 28

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