Lucian of Samosata, Piscator, Austin Morris Harmon (Translator), 49

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FRANKNESS

See! Here comes another fish that looks like a plate,¹ as if he were sliced lengthways, a sort of flatfish, opening his mouth for the hook. He has swallowed it; he is caught. Up with him! What is he?

INVESTIGATION

The kind that styles itself Platonic.

FRANKNESS

So you came to get the gold too, confound you? What do vou say, Plato? What are we to do with him?

Piscator. Lucian of Samosata. Austin Morris Harmon (Translator). United States. Perseus 5.0.

Funding provided by National Endowment for the Humanities.

Current edition Perseus

The Dead Come to Life, or the Fisherman (English) (Lucian, Vol. 3. Harmon, Austin Morris, editor. London: William Heinemann, Ltd.; Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1921.)

Editions (1)

Ἀναβιοῦντες ἢ Ἁλιεύς Perseus (Lucian, Vol. 3. Harmon, Austin Morris, editor. London: William Heinemann, Ltd.; Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1921.) — 49 focus

Παρρησιάδης

ἰδού τις ἄλλος ὑπόπλατος ὥσπερ ἡμίτομος ἰχθὺς πρόσεισιν, ψῆττά τις, κεχηνὼς εἰς τὸ ἄγκιστρον· κατέπιεν, ἔχεται, ἀνεσπάσθω. τίς ἐστιν;

Ἔλεγχος

ὁ Πλατωνικὸς εἶναι λέγων.

Παρρησιάδης

καὶ σύ, ὦ κατάρατε, ἥκεις ἐπὶ τὸ χρυσίον; τί φής, ὦ Πλάτων; τί ποιῶμεν αὐτόν;

Translations (1)

The Fisher Perseus (The Works of Lucian of Samosata, Vol. 1. Fowler, Henry Watson and Fowler, Francis George, translators. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1905.) — 49 focus

Parrhesiades

Look; what is this one? a sole? flat as a plate, thin as one of his own fillets; he gapes for the hook; down it goes; we have him; up he comes.

Lucian of Samosata Piscator 49

Austin Morris Harmon (Translator)

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FRANKNESS

See! Here comes another fish that looks like a plate,¹ as if he were sliced lengthways, a sort of flatfish, opening his mouth for the hook. He has swallowed it; he is caught. Up with him! What is he?

INVESTIGATION

The kind that styles itself Platonic.

FRANKNESS

So you came to get the gold too, confound you? What do vou say, Plato? What are we to do with him?

Current edition Perseus

Παρρησιάδης

ἰδού τις ἄλλος ὑπόπλατος ὥσπερ ἡμίτομος ἰχθὺς πρόσεισιν, ψῆττά τις, κεχηνὼς εἰς τὸ ἄγκιστρον· κατέπιεν, ἔχεται, ἀνεσπάσθω. τίς ἐστιν;

Ἔλεγχος

ὁ Πλατωνικὸς εἶναι λέγων.

Παρρησιάδης

καὶ σύ, ὦ κατάρατε, ἥκεις ἐπὶ τὸ χρυσίον; τί φής, ὦ Πλάτων; τί ποιῶμεν αὐτόν;

Parrhesiades

Look; what is this one? a sole? flat as a plate, thin as one of his own fillets; he gapes for the hook; down it goes; we have him; up he comes.

Diogenes

What is he?

Exposure

His plateship would be a Platonist.

Platonists

You too after the gold, villain?

Parrhesiades

Well, Plato? what shall we do with him?

Platonists

Off with him from the same rock.

Notes on the current edition

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FRANKNESS See! Here comes another fish that looks like a plate, 1 as if he were sliced lengthways, a sort of flatfish, opening his mouth for the hook. He has swallowed it; he is caught. Up with him! What is he?

INVESTIGATION The kind that styles itself Platonic.

FRANKNESS So you came to get the gold too, confound you? What do vou say, Plato? What are we to do with him?

Current edition Perseus

Παρρησιάδης ἰδού τις ἄλλος ὑπόπλατος ὥσπερ ἡμίτομος ἰχθὺς πρόσεισιν, ψῆττά τις, κεχηνὼς εἰς τὸ ἄγκιστρον· κατέπιεν, ἔχεται, ἀνεσπάσθω. τίς ἐστιν;

Ἔλεγχος ὁ Πλατωνικὸς εἶναι λέγων.

Παρρησιάδης καὶ σύ, ὦ κατάρατε, ἥκεις ἐπὶ τὸ χρυσίον; τί φής, ὦ Πλάτων; τί ποιῶμεν αὐτόν;

Parrhesiades Look; what is this one? a sole? flat as a plate, thin as one of his own fillets; he gapes for the hook; down it goes; we have him; up he comes.

Diogenes What is he?

Exposure His plateship would be a Platonist.

Platonists You too after the gold, villain?

Parrhesiades Well, Plato? what shall we do with him?

Platonists Off with him from the same rock.

Notes on the current edition

Stable identifiers

FRANKNESS

See! Here comes another fish that looks like a plate,¹ as if he were sliced lengthways, a sort of flatfish, opening his mouth for the hook. He has swallowed it; he is caught. Up with him! What is he?

INVESTIGATION

The kind that styles itself Platonic.

FRANKNESS

So you came to get the gold too, confound you? What do vou say, Plato? What are we to do with him?

Παρρησιάδης

ἰδού τις ἄλλος ὑπόπλατος ὥσπερ ἡμίτομος ἰχθὺς πρόσεισιν, ψῆττά τις, κεχηνὼς εἰς τὸ ἄγκιστρον· κατέπιεν, ἔχεται, ἀνεσπάσθω. τίς ἐστιν;

Ἔλεγχος

ὁ Πλατωνικὸς εἶναι λέγων.

Παρρησιάδης

καὶ σύ, ὦ κατάρατε, ἥκεις ἐπὶ τὸ χρυσίον; τί φής, ὦ Πλάτων; τί ποιῶμεν αὐτόν;

Parrhesiades

Look; what is this one? a sole? flat as a plate, thin as one of his own fillets; he gapes for the hook; down it goes; we have him; up he comes.

Diogenes

What is he?

Exposure

His plateship would be a Platonist.

Platonists

You too after the gold, villain?

Parrhesiades

Well, Plato? what shall we do with him?

Platonists

Off with him from the same rock.