Lucian, Fugitivi, Henry Watson Fowler (Translator), Francis George Fowler (Translator), 23

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Zeus

A sensible proposal. Heracles, you can go too; take Philosophy with you, and lose no time. Think: this will make your thirteenth Labour, and a creditable one too, the extermination of these reptiles.

Hera

Rather than meddle with them, I would give the Augean stables a second clean-out. However, let us be starting, Philosophy.

Philosophy

If I must, I must.

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

Current edition Perseus

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

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Δραπέται Perseus (Lucian, Vol. 5. Harmon, Austin Morris, editor. London: William Heinemann, Ltd.; Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1936 (printing).) — 23 focus

Ζεύς

εὖ λέγεις, ὦ Ἄπολλον. ἀλλὰ καὶ σύ, ὦ Ἡράκλεις, ἅμα καὶ τὴν Φιλοσοφίαν αὐτὴν ἔχοντες ἄπιτε ὡς τάχιστα εἰς τὸν βίον. τρισκαιδέκατον γοῦν ἆθλον οἴου τοῦτον οὐ σμικρὸν ἐκτελέσειν, ἢν ἐκκόψῃς μιαρὰ οὕτω καὶ ἀναίσχυντα θηρία.

Ἡρακλῆς

καὶ μὴν ἄμεινον ἦν, ὦ πάτερ, τὴν κόπρον ἐκκαθᾶραι αὖθις τὴν Αὐγέου ἢ τούτοις συμπλέκεσθαι. ἀπίωμεν δʼ ὅμως.

Φιλοσοφία

ἄκουσα μέν, ἀκολουθητέον δὲ κατὰ τὰ δόξαντα τῷ πατρί.

Translations (1)

The Runaways Perseus (Lucian, Vol. 5. Harmon, Austin Morris, editor. London: William Heinemann, Ltd.; Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1936 (printing).) — 23 focus

[23]

ZEUS

A good idea, Apollo. But you go too, Heracles; take along Philosophy herself and all be off, as quickly as you can, to the world. Bear in mind that you will be doing a thirteenth labour of no mean order if you exterminate such pestilential, shameless beasts.

HERACLES

On my word, father, I should have preferred to clean out the muck of Augeas once more, rather than to get involved with these creatures. Let us be off, however.

PHILOSOPHY

I do not want to go with you, but I must, in accordance with father’s orders.

Lucian Fugitivi 23

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

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Ἡρακλῆς

καὶ μὴν ἄμεινον ἦν, ὦ πάτερ, τὴν κόπρον ἐκκαθᾶραι αὖθις τὴν Αὐγέου ἢ τούτοις συμπλέκεσθαι. ἀπίωμεν δʼ ὅμως.

Φιλοσοφία

ἄκουσα μέν, ἀκολουθητέον δὲ κατὰ τὰ δόξαντα τῷ πατρί.

ZEUS

HERACLES

PHILOSOPHY

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Zeus

Hera

Philosophy

Current edition Perseus

Ἡρακλῆς καὶ μὴν ἄμεινον ἦν, ὦ πάτερ, τὴν κόπρον ἐκκαθᾶραι αὖθις τὴν Αὐγέου ἢ τούτοις συμπλέκεσθαι. ἀπίωμεν δʼ ὅμως.

Φιλοσοφία ἄκουσα μέν, ἀκολουθητέον δὲ κατὰ τὰ δόξαντα τῷ πατρί.

ZEUS

HERACLES

PHILOSOPHY

Stable identifiers

Ἡρακλῆς

καὶ μὴν ἄμεινον ἦν, ὦ πάτερ, τὴν κόπρον ἐκκαθᾶραι αὖθις τὴν Αὐγέου ἢ τούτοις συμπλέκεσθαι. ἀπίωμεν δʼ ὅμως.

Φιλοσοφία

ἄκουσα μέν, ἀκολουθητέον δὲ κατὰ τὰ δόξαντα τῷ πατρί.