Lucian, Necyomantia, ed. Austin Morris Harmon, 13

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Μένιππος

τῷ δὲ Μίνῳ μία τις καὶ πρὸς χάριν ἐδικάσθη· τὸν γάρ τοι Σικελιώτην Διονύσιον πολλά γε καὶ δεινὰ καὶ ἀνόσια ὑπό τε Δίωνος κατηγορηθέντα καὶ ὑπὸ τῆς σκιᾶς καταμαρτυρηθέντα παρελθὼν Ἀρίστιππος ὁ Κυρηναῖος — ἄγουσι δʼ αὐτὸν ἐν τιμῇ καὶ δύναται μέγιστον ἐν τοῖς κάτω — μικροῦ δεῖν τῇ Χιμαίρᾳ προσδεθέντα¹ παρέλυσε τῆς καταδίκης λέγων πολλοῖς αὐτὸν τῶν πεπαιδευμένων πρὸς ἀργύριον γενέσθαι δεξιόν.

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Μένιππος ἢ Νεκυομαντεία (Greek) (Lucian, Vol. 4. Harmon, Austin Morris, editor. London: William Heinemann, Ltd.; Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1925 (printing).)

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Menippus, or the Descent Into Hades Perseus (Lucian, Vol. 4. Harmon, Austin Morris, editor. London: William Heinemann, Ltd.; Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1925 (printing).) — 13 focus

[13] But to return to Minos, he gave one decision by favour; for Dionysius of Sicily had been charged with many dreadful and impious crimes by Dion as prosecutor and the shadow as witness, but Aristippus of Cyrene appeared—they hold him in honour, and he has very great influence among the people of the lower world—and when Dionysius was within an ace of being chained up to the Chimera, he got him let off from the punishment by saying that many men of letters had found him obliging in the matter of money.¹

Menippus Perseus (The Works of Lucian of Samosata, Vol. 1. Fowler, Henry Watson and Fowler, Francis George, translators. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1905.) — 13 focus

[13] Minos, however, did allow his decision to be influenced in one case. Dionysius of Syracuse was accused by Dion of many unholy deeds, and damning evidence was produced by his shadow; he was on the point of being chained to the Chimera, when Aristippus of Cyrene, whose name and influence are great below, got him off on the ground of his constant generosity as a patron of literature.

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Μένιππος ἢ Νεκυομαντεία

1. προτεθέντα Seager, Fritzsche. But compare Horace Carm. i. 27, 23-24: Vix illigatum te triformi Pegasus expediet Chimaera.

Lucian Necyomantia 13

ed. Austin Morris Harmon

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