Lucian, Fugitivi, Henry Watson Fowler (Translator), Francis George Fowler (Translator), 5

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Zeus

Poor child! it is too bad of them, And what have they been doing to you exactly?

Philosophy

Judge for yourself whether the provocation was a slight one. When formerly you looked down upon the world, and saw that it was filled with iniquity and transgression, and was become the troubled abode of sin and folly, you had compassion on the frailty of ignorant mankind, and sent me down to them: you bade me see to it, that wickedness and violence and brutality should cease from among them; I was to lift their eyes upwards to the truth, and cause them to live together in unity. Remember your words on that occasion: ‘Behold, my daughter, the misdeeds of mankind; behold how ignorance has wrought upon them. I feel compassion for them, and have chosen you from among all the Gods to heal their ills; for who else should heal them?’

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).) — 5 focus

Ζεύς

δεινὰ ταῦτα, ὦ θύγατερ. ἀλλὰ τί μάλιστα ἠδικήκασί σε;

Φιλοσοφία

σκόπει, ὦ πάτερ, εἰ μικρά. σὺ γὰρ κατιδὼν τὸν βίον ἀδικίας καὶ παρανομίας μεστὸν ἅτε ἀμαθίᾳ καὶ ὕβρει ξυνόντα καὶ ταραττόμενον ὑπʼ αὐτῶν, κατελεήσας τὸ ἀνθρώπειον ὑπὸ τῇ ἀγνοίᾳ ἐλαυνόμενον ἐμὲ κατέπεμψας, ἐντειλάμενος ἐπιμεληθῆναι ὡς παύσαιντο μὲν ἀδικοῦντες ἀλλήλους καὶ βιαζόμενοι καὶ ὅμοια τοῖς θηρίοις βιοῦντες, ἀναβλέψαντες δὲ πρὸς τὴν ἀλήθειαν εἰρηνικώτερον ξυμπολιτεύοιντο. ἔφης γοῦν πρός με καταπέμπων, ἅ μὲν πράττουσιν οἱ ἄνθρωποι καὶ ὡς διάκεινται ὑπὸ τῆς ἀμαθίας, ὦ θύγατερ, καὶ αὐτὴ ὁρᾷς· ἐγὼ δέ (ἐλεῶ γὰρ αὐτούς) σέ, ἣν μόνην ἰάσασθαι ἂν τὰ γιγνόμενα οἶμαι, προκρίνας ἐξ ἁπάντων ἡμῶν πέμπω ἰασομένην.

Translations (1)

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

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ZEUS

This is a sad state of affairs, daughter. But in just what way have they wronged you?

PHILOSOPHY

See for yourself, father, whether the wrongs are trifling. When you observed that the life of man was full of wrongdoing and transgression because stupidity and high-handedness were ingrained in it, and disturbed it, you pitied humanity, harried as it was by ignorance, and therefore sent me down, enjoining me to see to it that they should stop wronging each other, doing violence, and living like beasts; that they should instead fix their eyes on the verities and manage their society more peaceably. Anyhow, you said to me in sending me down: “What men do and how they are affected by stupidity, daughter, you see for yourself. I pity them, and so, as I think that you alone might be able to cure what is going on, I have selected you from among us all and send you to effect the cure.”

Lucian Fugitivi 5

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

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Zeus

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Ζεύς

δεινὰ ταῦτα, ὦ θύγατερ. ἀλλὰ τί μάλιστα ἠδικήκασί σε;

ZEUS

PHILOSOPHY

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Search the Perseus Catalog for:

Zeus

Philosophy

Current edition Perseus

Ζεύς δεινὰ ταῦτα, ὦ θύγατερ. ἀλλὰ τί μάλιστα ἠδικήκασί σε;

ZEUS

PHILOSOPHY

Stable identifiers

Ζεύς

δεινὰ ταῦτα, ὦ θύγατερ. ἀλλὰ τί μάλιστα ἠδικήκασί σε;