Lucian, Fugitivi, Henry Watson Fowler (Translator), Francis George Fowler (Translator), 33

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[33] Masters. We leave the rest to you, sir.

Hera

This is my judgement. Let the woman return beneath her husband’s roof, or many-headed monsters will come of it. These two truant sparks I hand over to their owners: let them follow their trades as heretofore; Lecythio wash clothes, and Rosolio patch them;—not, however, before his back has felt the mallow-stalk, And for Cantharus, first let the men of pitch take him, and plaster him without mercy; and be their pitch the vilest procurable. Then let him be led forth to stand upon the snowy slopes of Haemus, naked and fettered.

Cantharus

Mercy! have mercy onme! Ah me! I am undone!

First Master

So tragic?. Come, follow me to the plasterers; and off with that lion’s-skin, lest you be taken for other than an ass.

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.)

Editions (1)

Δραπέται Perseus (Lucian, Vol. 5. Harmon, Austin Morris, editor. London: William Heinemann, Ltd.; Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1936 (printing).) — 33 focus

Φιλοσοφία

σόν, ὦ Ἑρμῆ, δικάζειν τὸ μετὰ τοῦτο.

Ἑρμῆς

οὕτω μοι δοκεῖ, ταύτην μέν, ἵνα μηδὲν τέρας μηδὲ πολυκέφαλον τέκῃ, οἴχεσθαι παρὰ τὸν ἄνδρα ὀπίσω ἐς τὴν Ἑλλάδα, τὼ δύο δὲ τούτω δραπετίσκω παραδοθέντε τοῖν δεσπόταιν μανθάνειν ἃ πρὸ τοῦ, τὸν μὲν ἀποπλύνειν τὰς ῥυπώσας τῶν ὀθονῶν, τὸν Ληκυθίωνα, τὸν Μυρόπνουν δὲ αὖθις ἀκεῖσθαι τῶν ἱματίων τὰ διερρωγότα, μαλάχῃ γε πρότερον μαστιγωθέντε.¹ ἔπειτα καὶ τοῦτον παραδοθῆναι τοῖς πιττωταῖς, ὡς ἀπόλοιτο παρατιλλόμενος τὰ πρῶτα, ῥυπώσῃ προσέτι καὶ γυναικείᾳ τῇ πίττῃ, εἶτα ἐς τὸν Αἷμον ἀναχθέντα γυμνὸν ἐπὶ τῆς χιόνος μένειν συμπεποδισμένον τὼ πόδε.

Κάνθαρος

φεῦ τῶν κακῶν, ὀτοτοῖ, παππαπαιάξ.

Δεσπότης α

τί τοῦτο παρεντίθης τῶν τραγικῶν σου² διαλόγων; ἀλλʼ ἀκολούθει παρὰ τοὺς πιττωτὰς ἤδη, ἀποδυσάμενός γε πρότερον τὴν λεοντῆν, ὡς γνωσθῇς ὄνος ὤν.

Translations (1)

The Runaways Perseus (Lucian, Vol. 5. Harmon, Austin Morris, editor. London: William Heinemann, Ltd.; Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1936 (printing).) — 33 focus

[33]

PHILOSOPHY

It is for you, Hermes, to give judgement now.

HERMES

This is my decision. As for the woman, to insure against her bringing into the world anything portentous or many-headed, she shall go back to Greece to live with her husband. This pair of runaway slaves shall be turned over to their masters and continue to learn their former trades; Pomander to wash dirty linen, Stinkadore once again to mend torn cloaks; but first they shall both be beaten with mallows.¹ Finally, this fellow (to scaRABEE) shall be turned over to the pitch-plasterers, so that he may be murdered by having his hair pulled out, and with filthy, nasty pitch, besides; then he shall be taken to the summit of Haemus and left standing there naked in the snow with his feet tied together.

SCARABEE

Ah, woe is me! Oh, oh! Alackaday! FIRST SLAVE-OWNER Why are you lugging in that quotation out of those melodramatic discourses of yours? Come along with me to the pitch-plasterers now; but first strip off that lion skin, that you may be known for the ass that you are.

Lucian Fugitivi 33

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

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Hera

Cantharus

First Master

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Φιλοσοφία

σόν, ὦ Ἑρμῆ, δικάζειν τὸ μετὰ τοῦτο.

Κάνθαρος

φεῦ τῶν κακῶν, ὀτοτοῖ, παππαπαιάξ.

Δεσπότης α

τί τοῦτο παρεντίθης τῶν τραγικῶν σου² διαλόγων; ἀλλʼ ἀκολούθει παρὰ τοὺς πιττωτὰς ἤδη, ἀποδυσάμενός γε πρότερον τὴν λεοντῆν, ὡς γνωσθῇς ὄνος ὤν.

PHILOSOPHY

HERMES

SCARABEE

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Hera

Cantharus

First Master

Current edition Perseus

Φιλοσοφία σόν, ὦ Ἑρμῆ, δικάζειν τὸ μετὰ τοῦτο.

Κάνθαρος φεῦ τῶν κακῶν, ὀτοτοῖ, παππαπαιάξ.

Δεσπότης α τί τοῦτο παρεντίθης τῶν τραγικῶν σου 2 διαλόγων; ἀλλʼ ἀκολούθει παρὰ τοὺς πιττωτὰς ἤδη, ἀποδυσάμενός γε πρότερον τὴν λεοντῆν, ὡς γνωσθῇς ὄνος ὤν.

PHILOSOPHY

HERMES

SCARABEE

Stable identifiers

Φιλοσοφία

σόν, ὦ Ἑρμῆ, δικάζειν τὸ μετὰ τοῦτο.

Κάνθαρος

φεῦ τῶν κακῶν, ὀτοτοῖ, παππαπαιάξ.