Lucian, Timon, ed. Austin Morris Harmon, 26

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Ἑρμῆς

ἔτι δή μοι καὶ τοῦτο ἀπόκριναι, πῶς τυφλὸς ὤν — εἰρήσεται γάρ — καὶ προσέτι ὠχρὸς καὶ βαρὺς ἐκ τοῖν σκελοῖν τοσούτους ἐραστὰς ἔχεις, ὥστε πάντας ἀποβλέπειν εἰς σέ, καὶ τυχόντας μὲν εὐδαιμονεῖν οἴεσθαι, εἰ δὲ ἀποτύχοιεν οὐκ ἀνέχεσθαι ζῶντας; οἶδα γοῦν τινας οὐκ ὀλίγους αὐτῶν οὕτως σου δυσέρωτας ὄντας ὥστε καὶ ἐς βαθυκήτεα πόντον φέροντες ἔρριψαν αὑτοὺς καὶ πετρῶν κατʼ ἠλιβάτων, ὑπερορᾶσθαι νομίζοντες ὑπὸ σοῦ ὅτεπερ¹ οὐδὲ τὴν ἀρχὴν ἑώρας αὐτούς. πλὴν ἀλλὰ καὶ σὺ ἂν εὖ οἶδα ὅτι ὁμολογήσειας, εἴ τι συνίης σαυτοῦ, κορυβαντιᾶν αὐτοὺς ἐρωμένῳ τοιούτῳ ἐπιμεμηνότας.

Timon. Lucian. ed. Austin Morris Harmon. Medford, MA. Perseus 4.0.

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

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Timon, or the Misanthrope Perseus (Lucian, Vol. 2. Harmon, Austin Morris, editor. London: William Heinemann, Ltd.; Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1915.) — 26 focus

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HERMES

Now just answer me this one more question. How is it that although you are blind (pardon my frankness), and not only that but pale and heavy-footed, you have lovers in such number that all men regard you with adimiration and count themselves lucky if they win you, but cannot bear to live if they fail? In fact, I know a good many of them who were so desperately in love with you that they went and flung themselves “into the deep-bosomed sea” and “over the beetling crags”¹ because they thought you were cutting them when as a matter of fact you could not see them at all. But you yourself will admit, I am sure, if you know yourself, that they are crazy to lose their heads over such a beloved.

Timon the Misanthrope Perseus (The Works of Lucian of Samosata, Vol. 1. Fowler, Henry Watson and Fowler, Francis George, translators. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1905.) — 26 focus

Hermes

Yet another question. You are not only blind (excuse my frankness), but pallid and decrepit; how comes it, then, that you have so many lovers? All men’s looks are for you; if they get possession of you, they count themselves happy men; if they miss you, life is not worth living. Why, I have known not a few so sick for love of you that they have scaled some skypointing crag, and thence hurled themselves to unplumbed ocean depths,¹ when they thought they were scorned by you, because you would not acknowledge their first salute. I am sure you know yourself well enough to confess that they must be lunatics, to rave about such charms as yours.

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Τίμων

1. ὄτεπερ du Soul: ὅτιπερ MSS.

Lucian Timon 26

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