Lucian, Lexiphanes, ed. Austin Morris Harmon, 14

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Λεξιφάνης

μετὰ δὲ τὸν ποτὸν συνυθλήσομεν οἷα¹ καὶ ἅττʼ ἐώθαμεν· οὐ γὰρ ἄκαιρον δήπουθεν ἐν οἴνῳ φλύειν.

ἐπαινῶ τοῦτο, ἦν δʼ ἐγώ, καὶ γὰρ ὅτιπερ ὄφελός ἐσμεν τῆς ἀττικίσεως ἄκρον. εὖ λέγεις, ἦ δʼ ὃς ὁ Καλλικλῆς· τὸ γὰρ ἐρεσχηλεῖν ἀλλήλους συχνάκις λάλης θηγάνη γίγνεται. ἐγὼ δέ, ἦ δʼ ὃς ὁ Εὔδημος — κρύος γάρ ἐστιν — ἥδιον ἂν εὐζωροτέρῳ ὑποπυκνάζοιμι· καὶ γὰρ χειμοθνής εἰμι, καὶ χλιανθεὶς ἥδιον ἂν² ἀκούοιμι τῶν χειρεσόφων τούτων, τοῦ τε αὐλητοῦ καὶ τῆς βαρβιτῳδοῦ.

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

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Lexiphanes Perseus (Lucian, Vol. 5. Harmon, Austin Morris, editor. London: William Heinemann, Ltd.; Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1936 (printing).) — 14 focus

[14] And now that we have drunk, we shall gossip according to our wont, for in good sooth it is not inopportune to prate when we are in our cups.” “T approve this,” said I, “and why not, for we are the sheer quintessence of Atticism.” ‘ Very true,” quoth Callicles, “for quizzing each other incessantly is a whet to loquacity.” “As to me,” said Eudemus, “since it is brumal I had liefer fence myself with stiffer drink. I am starved with cold, and when I am warmed I would fain hear these handiwise¹ folk, the flute-player and the harper.”

Lexiphanes Perseus (The Works of Lucian of Samosata, Vol. 2. Fowler, Henry Watson and Fowler, Francis George, translators. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1905.) — 14 focus

[14] ‘we are the very pink and perfection of the true Attic” ‘Done with you!’ says Callicles, ‘frequent quizzings are a whetstone of conversation” ‘For my part, cries Eudemus, ‘—it grows chill—I like my liquor stronger, and more of 1t; I am deathly cold; sf I could get some warmth into me, I had rather listen to these light-fingered gentry of flute and lyre?

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Λεξιφάνης

1. συνυθλήσομεν οἷα edd.: συνυθλησόμενοι MSS. (-οι om. N).

2. ἂν Jacobitz: not in MSS.

Lucian Lexiphanes 14

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