Lucian, Lexiphanes, Henry Watson Fowler (Translator), Francis George Fowler (Translator), 19

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Lexiphanes

Heal him, not me, Sopolis; he is manifestly moonstruck; persons duly pia-matered he accounts beside their five wits; he might come from Samos and call Mnesarchus father; for he enjoins silence and linguinanity. But by the unabashed Athene, by Heracles the beast-killer, no jot or tittle of notice shall he have from me. 'Tis my foreboding that I fall not in with him again. For his censures, I void my rheum upon them.

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

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Lexiphanes (English) (The Works of Lucian of Samosata, Vol. 2. Fowler, Henry Watson and Fowler, Francis George, translators. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1905.)

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Λεξιφάνης Perseus (Lucian, Vol. 5. Harmon, Austin Morris, editor. London: William Heinemann, Ltd.; Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1936 (printing).) — 19 focus

Λεξιφάνης

μὴ ἐμέ, Σώπολι, ἀλλὰ τουτονὶ Λυκῖνον, ὃς περιφανῶς μακκοᾷ καὶ ἄνδρας πεφρενωμένους ὀλισθογνωμονεῖν οἴεται καὶ κατὰ τὸν Μνησάρχου τὸν Σάμιον σιωπὴν καὶ γλωτταργίαν ἡμῖν ἐπιβάλλει. ἀλλὰ μὰ τὴν ἀναίσχυντον Ἀθηνᾶν καὶ τὸν μέγαν θηριομάχον Ἡρακλέα οὐδʼ ὅσον τοῦ γρῦ καὶ τοῦ φνεῖ φροντιοῦμεν αὐτοῦ· ὀττεύομαι γοῦν μηδὲ ὅλως ἐντυγχάνειν αὐτῷ. ἔοικα δὲ καὶ ῥιναυλήσειν¹ τοιαῦτα ἐπιτιμῶντος ἀκούων. καὶ ἤδη γε ἄπειμι παρὰ τὸν ἑταῖρον Κλεινίαν, ὅτι πυνθάνομαι χρόνου ἤδη ἀκάθαρτον εἶναι αὐτῷ τὴν γυναῖκα καὶ ταύτην νοσεῖν, ὅτι μὴ ῥεῖ. ὥστε οὐκέτι οὐδʼ ἀναβαίνει αὐτήν, ἀλλʼ ἄβατος καὶ ἀνήροτός ἐστιν.

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Lexiphanes Perseus (Lucian, Vol. 5. Harmon, Austin Morris, editor. London: William Heinemann, Ltd.; Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1936 (printing).) — 19 focus

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LEXIPHANES

Not me, Sopolis, but this man Lycinus, who is patently maggoty and thinks that well-furnished heads want wits, and imposes silence and a truce of the tongue upon us in the style of the son of Mnesarchus, the Samian.¹_ But I protest, by bashless Athena and by mighty Heracles, slayer of ferines, I shan’t bother even a flock or a doit about him! In fact I abominate meeting him at all, and I am fit to snort when I hear him pass such censure. Any- how, I am this moment going off to my comrade Cleinias’s because I am informed that for some time now his wife is irregular² and out of sorts by reason of wanting issue, so that he no longer even knows her; she is unapproachable and uncultivated.

Lucian Lexiphanes 19

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

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