Lucian, De parasito sive artem esse parasiticam, ed. Austin Morris Harmon, 15

Search the Perseus Catalog for:

← Previous Next →

Σίμων

καὶ μὴν ἐκεῖνά γε οὐδείς ἐστιν ὅστις οὐκ ἐπίσταται, ὅτι οἱ μὲν τὰς λοιπὰς τέχνας ἐργαζόμενοι τὸν μὲν ἄλλον χρόνον ταλαιπωροῦσι, μίαν δὲ ἢ δύο μόνας τοῦ μηνὸς ἡμέρας ἱερὰς ἄγουσι,¹ καὶ εὐφραίνεσθαι λέγονται τότε· ὁ δὲ παράσιτος τοῦ μηνὸς τὰς τριάκονθʼ ἡμέρας ἱερὰς ἄγει· πᾶσαι γὰρ αὐτῷ δοκοῦσιν εἶναι τῶν θεῶν.

De parasito sive artem esse parasiticam. Lucian. ed. Austin Morris Harmon. Medford, MA. Perseus 4.0.

Sponsored by Perseus Project, Tufts University.

Funding provided by The National Endowment for the Humanities; Harvard Library Arcadia Fund; Google Digital Humanities Awards Program.

Current edition Perseus

Περὶ τοῦ Παρασίτου ὅτι Τέχνη ἡ Παρασιτική (Greek) (Lucian, Vol. 3. Harmon, Austin Morris, editor. London: William Heinemann, Ltd.; Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1921.)

Translations (2)

The Parasite Tychiades Perseus (Lucian, Vol. 3. Harmon, Austin Morris, editor. London: William Heinemann, Ltd.; Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1921.) — 15 focus

[15] Everybody knows, too, that those who ply the rest of the arts drudge all the time except one or two days a month which they celebrate as holidays,¹ and are said to have their good time then. But the parasite celebrates thirty holidays a month, for he thinks that every day belongs to the gods.

The Parasite: a Demonstration that Sponging is a Profession Perseus (The Works of Lucian of Samosata, Vol. 3. Fowler, Henry Watson and Fowler, Francis George, translators. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1905.) — 15 focus

[15] Then it is no news to any one that other professions slave habitually, and get just one or two holidays a month; States keep some monthly and some yearly festivals; these are their times of enjoyment. But the sponger has thirty festivals a month; every day is a red-letter day with him.

Notes on the current edition

Περὶ τοῦ Παρασίτου ὅτι Τέχνη ἡ Παρασιτική

1. ἄγουσι MSS. add. καὶ αἱ πόλεις δὲ τὰς μὲν δι’ ἔτουες, τὰς δὲ ἐμμήνουε ἑορτὰς διατελοῦσι, excised by Harmon as a comment. Νote also διατελοῦσι or τελοῦσι, or ἐπιτελοῦσι.

Lucian De parasito sive artem esse parasiticam 15

ed. Austin Morris Harmon

Search the Perseus Catalog for:

Current edition Perseus

Notes on the current edition

Stable identifiers