Lucian of Samosata, Fugitivi, Austin Morris Harmon (Translator), 11

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[11] Then, on being checked and shown up by my comrades, they were indignant and combined against them, at length bringing them before courts and handing them over to drink the hemlock. I ought perhaps at that time to have fled incontinently, no longer putting up with their company; but Antisthenes and Diogenes, and presently Crates and Menippus, ou know,¹ persuaded me to mete them out an additional modicum of delay. O that I had not done so! for I should not have undergone such sufferings later.

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

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Current edition Perseus

The Runaways (English) (Lucian, Vol. 5. Harmon, Austin Morris, editor. London: William Heinemann, Ltd.; Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1936 (printing).)

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Δραπέται Perseus (Lucian, Vol. 5. Harmon, Austin Morris, editor. London: William Heinemann, Ltd.; Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1936 (printing).) — 11 focus

Φιλοσοφία

εἶτα κωλυόμενοι καὶ ἐλεγχόμενοι πρὸς τῶν ἑταίρων τῶν ἐμῶν ἠγανάκτουν καὶ συνίσταντο ἐπʼ αὐτούς, καὶ τέλος δικαστηρίοις ὑπῆγον καὶ παρεδίδοσαν πιομένους τοῦ κωνείου. ἐχρῆν μὲν οὖν ἴσως τότε φυγεῖν εὐθὺς καὶ μηκέτι ἀνέχεσθαι τὴν συνουσίαν αὐτῶν· νῦν δὲ Ἀντισθένης με καὶ Διογένης καὶ μετὰ μικρὸν Κράτης καὶ Μένιππος οὗτος ἔπεισαν ὀλίγον ὅσον ἐπιμετρῆσαι τῆς μονῆς, ὡς μήποτε ὤφελον· οὐ γὰρ ἂν τοσαῦτα ἐπεπόνθειν ὕστερον.

Translations (1)

The Runaways Perseus (The Works of Lucian of Samosata, Vol. 4. Fowler, Henry Watson and Fowler, Francis George, translators. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1905.) — 11 focus

[11] My followers would have restrained them, and exposed their errors: but they grew angry, and conspired against them, and in the end brought them under the power of the law, which condemned them to drink of hemlock. Doubttess I should have done well to renounce humanity there and then, and take my flight: but Antisthenes and Diogenes, and after them Crates, and our friend Menippus, prevailed upon me to tarry yet a little longer. Would that I had never yielded!' I should have been spared much pain in the sequel.

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The Runaways

“This” Menippus, not because Lucian thinks of him as attendin Fhilpeop. y in her return to Heaven, or still less because he is carelessly adapting something by Menippus in which that was the case (Helm), but simply because when Lucian wrote these words Menippus enjoyed among the reading public a high degree of popularity, to which by this time Lucian himself had contributed significantly:

Lucian of Samosata Fugitivi 11

Austin Morris Harmon (Translator)

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