Lucian, Piscator, Henry Watson Fowler (Translator), Francis George Fowler (Translator), 39

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Philosophy

congratulate you, Parrhesiades; you are unanimously acquitted, and are henceforth one of us.

Parrhesiades

Your humble servant. Or no, I must find more tragic words to fit the solemnity of the occasion:

Victorious might

My life’s path light,

And ever strew with garlands bright!

Virtue

Well, now we come to our second course; let us have in the other people and try them for their insults. Parrhesiades shall accuse them each in turn.

Parrhesiades

Well said, Virtue. Syllogism, my boy, put your head out over the city and summon the philosophers.

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

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

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Ἀναβιοῦντες ἢ Ἁλιεύς Perseus (Lucian, Vol. 3. Harmon, Austin Morris, editor. London: William Heinemann, Ltd.; Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1921.) — 39 focus

Φιλοσοφία

εὖ ἔχει· πρόσιθι Παρρησιάδη· ἀφίεμέν σε τῆς αἰτίας, καὶ ἁπάσαις κρατεῖς, καὶ τὸ λοιπὸν ἴσθι ἡμέτερος ὤν.

Παρρησιάδης

προσεκύνησα τήν γε πρώτην·¹ μᾶλλον δέ, τραγικώτερον αὐτὸ ποιήσειν μοι δοκῶ· σεμνότερον γάρ·

ὦ μέγα σεμνὴ Νίκη, τὸν ἐμὸν

βίοτον κατέχοις

καὶ μὴ λήγοις στεφανοῦσα.

Ἀρετή

οὐκοῦν δευτέρου κρατῆρος ἤδη καταρχώμεθα· προσκαλῶμεν κἀκείνους, ὡς δίκην ὑπόσχωσιν ἀνθʼ ὧν εἰς ἡμᾶς ὑβρίζουσι· κατηγορήσει δὲ Παρρησιάδης ἑκάστου.

Φιλοσοφία

ὀρθῶς, ὦ Ἀρετή, ἔλεξας. ὥστε σύ, παῖ Συλλογισμέ, κατακύψας εἰς τὸ ἄστυ προσκήρυττε τοὺς φιλοσόφους.

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The Dead Come to Life, or the Fisherman Perseus (Lucian, Vol. 3. Harmon, Austin Morris, editor. London: William Heinemann, Ltd.; Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1921.) — 39 focus

PHILOSOPHY

Good! Come, Frankness. We acquit you of the charge; you have an unanimous verdict in your favour, and from now on you may count yourself one of my household.

FRANKNESS

I pay my homage at once. (He kisses his hand.) But no! I think I shall do it more as they do in a play, for that will be more reverential:

O Victory, goddess so greatly revered,

Take my life in thy care

And cease not to crown me with garlands.

Euripides, close of Phoenissac, Orestes, Iphigenia om Tauris.

VIRTUE

Well, then, let us now initiate our second bowl of wine. Let us summon up those others to be punished for the insults they are inflicting upon us. Frankness shall accuse each of them.

Lucian Piscator 39

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

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Philosophy

congratulate you, Parrhesiades; you are unanimously acquitted, and are henceforth one of us.

Parrhesiades

Your humble servant. Or no, I must find more tragic words to fit the solemnity of the occasion:

Victorious might

My life’s path light,

And ever strew with garlands bright!

Virtue

Well, now we come to our second course; let us have in the other people and try them for their insults. Parrhesiades shall accuse them each in turn.

Parrhesiades

Well said, Virtue. Syllogism, my boy, put your head out over the city and summon the philosophers.

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Φιλοσοφία

εὖ ἔχει· πρόσιθι Παρρησιάδη· ἀφίεμέν σε τῆς αἰτίας, καὶ ἁπάσαις κρατεῖς, καὶ τὸ λοιπὸν ἴσθι ἡμέτερος ὤν.

Φιλοσοφία

ὀρθῶς, ὦ Ἀρετή, ἔλεξας. ὥστε σύ, παῖ Συλλογισμέ, κατακύψας εἰς τὸ ἄστυ προσκήρυττε τοὺς φιλοσόφους.

PHILOSOPHY

Good! Come, Frankness. We acquit you of the charge; you have an unanimous verdict in your favour, and from now on you may count yourself one of my household.

VIRTUE

Well, then, let us now initiate our second bowl of wine. Let us summon up those others to be punished for the insults they are inflicting upon us. Frankness shall accuse each of them.

PHILOSOPHY

Quite right, Virtue; so slip down into the town, Syllogism, my lad, and summon the philosophers.

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Philosophy congratulate you, Parrhesiades; you are unanimously acquitted, and are henceforth one of us.

Parrhesiades Your humble servant. Or no, I must find more tragic words to fit the solemnity of the occasion: Victorious might My life’s path light, And ever strew with garlands bright!

Virtue Well, now we come to our second course; let us have in the other people and try them for their insults. Parrhesiades shall accuse them each in turn.

Parrhesiades Well said, Virtue. Syllogism, my boy, put your head out over the city and summon the philosophers.

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Φιλοσοφία εὖ ἔχει· πρόσιθι Παρρησιάδη· ἀφίεμέν σε τῆς αἰτίας, καὶ ἁπάσαις κρατεῖς, καὶ τὸ λοιπὸν ἴσθι ἡμέτερος ὤν.

Φιλοσοφία ὀρθῶς, ὦ Ἀρετή, ἔλεξας. ὥστε σύ, παῖ Συλλογισμέ, κατακύψας εἰς τὸ ἄστυ προσκήρυττε τοὺς φιλοσόφους.

PHILOSOPHY Good! Come, Frankness. We acquit you of the charge; you have an unanimous verdict in your favour, and from now on you may count yourself one of my household.

VIRTUE Well, then, let us now initiate our second bowl of wine. Let us summon up those others to be punished for the insults they are inflicting upon us. Frankness shall accuse each of them.

PHILOSOPHY Quite right, Virtue; so slip down into the town, Syllogism, my lad, and summon the philosophers.

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Philosophy

congratulate you, Parrhesiades; you are unanimously acquitted, and are henceforth one of us.

Parrhesiades

Your humble servant. Or no, I must find more tragic words to fit the solemnity of the occasion:

Victorious might

My life’s path light,

And ever strew with garlands bright!

Virtue

Well, now we come to our second course; let us have in the other people and try them for their insults. Parrhesiades shall accuse them each in turn.

Parrhesiades

Well said, Virtue. Syllogism, my boy, put your head out over the city and summon the philosophers.

Φιλοσοφία

εὖ ἔχει· πρόσιθι Παρρησιάδη· ἀφίεμέν σε τῆς αἰτίας, καὶ ἁπάσαις κρατεῖς, καὶ τὸ λοιπὸν ἴσθι ἡμέτερος ὤν.

Φιλοσοφία

ὀρθῶς, ὦ Ἀρετή, ἔλεξας. ὥστε σύ, παῖ Συλλογισμέ, κατακύψας εἰς τὸ ἄστυ προσκήρυττε τοὺς φιλοσόφους.

PHILOSOPHY

Good! Come, Frankness. We acquit you of the charge; you have an unanimous verdict in your favour, and from now on you may count yourself one of my household.

VIRTUE

Well, then, let us now initiate our second bowl of wine. Let us summon up those others to be punished for the insults they are inflicting upon us. Frankness shall accuse each of them.

PHILOSOPHY

Quite right, Virtue; so slip down into the town, Syllogism, my lad, and summon the philosophers.