Lucian, De parasito sive artem esse parasiticam, ed. Austin Morris Harmon, 29

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ὁμοίως δὲ καὶ περὶ τῆς ὑποστάσεως τῆς ῥητορικῆς ταὐτὰ φαίη τις ἄν· τὸ γὰρ περὶ ἑνὸς προκειμένου ταὐτὰ μὴ λέγειν ἅπαντας, ἀλλὰ μάχην εἶναι φορᾶς ἀντιδόξου, ἀπόδειξις μεγίστη τοῦ μηδὲ ἀρχὴν εἶναι τοῦτο οὗ μία κατάληψις οὐκ ἔστιν· τὸ γὰρ ζητεῖν τό, τί μᾶλλον αὐτό¹ ἐστιν, καὶ τὸ μηδέποτε ὁμολογεῖν ἓν² εἶναι, τοῦτο αὐτὴν ἀναιρεῖ τοῦ ζητουμένου τὴν οὐσίαν.

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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.)

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The Parasite Tychiades Perseus (Lucian, Vol. 3. Harmon, Austin Morris, editor. London: William Heinemann, Ltd.; Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1921.) — 29 focus

[29] The same can be said, too, of the objective reality of rhetoric. When all do not express the same views about one subject, but there is a battle royal of contradictory declarations, that is the greatest proot that the subject of which there is not a single definite conception does not exist at all; for to enquire whether it is this rather than that, and never to agree that it is one, does away with the very existence of the subject that is questioned.

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.) — 29 focus

[29] The real existence of Rhetoric must incur the same criticism, That with the same subject-matter all professors should not agree, but maintain conflicting opinions, amounts to a demonstration: that which is differently apprehended cannot exist. ‘The inquiry whether a thing is this or that, in place of agreement that it is one, is tantamount to a negation of its existence.

Notes on the current edition

Περὶ τοῦ Παρασίτου ὅτι Τέχνη ἡ Παρασιτική

1. αὑτό Halm: αὐτῶν ΜΕΝ.

2. ἓν Fritzsche: ἂν Γ1Ω, μίαν Γ3, other MSS.

Lucian De parasito sive artem esse parasiticam 29

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