Lucian, De saltatione, ed. Austin Morris Harmon, 24

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Λυκῖνος

ὁ δὲ Ἡσίοδος, οὐ παρʼ ἄλλου ἀκούσας ἀλλʼ ἰδὼν αὐτὸς ἕωθεν εὐθὺς ὀρχουμένας τὰς Μούσας, ἐν ἀρχῇ τῶν ἐπῶν τοῦτο περὶ αὐτῶν τὸ μέγιστον ἐγκώμιον διηγεῖται, ὅτι περὶ κρήνην ἰοειδέα πόσς’ ἁπαλοῖσιν ὀρχεῦνται, τοῦ πατρὸς τὸν βωμὸν περιχορεύουσαι.

ἀλλὰ σὺ μέν, ὦ γενναῖε, μονονουχὶ θεομαχῶν ὑβρίζεις εἰς τὴν ὀρχηστικήν·

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

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The Dance Perseus (Lucian, Vol. 5. Harmon, Austin Morris, editor. London: William Heinemann, Ltd.; Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1936 (printing).) — 24 focus

[24] As for Hesiod, who was not told by someone else about the dancing of the Muses but saw it himself at break of day, he begins his poem? by saying about them as the highest possible praise that they “dance with delicate footfall about the violet waters,” circling round the altar of their sire.

In spite of this, my high-spirited friend, you insult dancing almost to the point of quarrelling with the wade and yet Socrates

Of Pantomime Perseus (The Works of Lucian of Samosata, Vol. 2. Fowler, Henry Watson and Fowler, Francis George, translators. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1905.) — 24 focus

[24] Hesiod, not speaking from hearsay, but coming fresh from the sight of the Muses’ morning dance, has this high tribute to them in the beginning of his poem:

Their dainty feet round the dark waters dance,

about the altar of Zeus.—My dear sir, your onslaught upon the dance is little short of blasphemy.

Lucian De saltatione 24

ed. Austin Morris Harmon

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