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Λεξιφάνης

ἐγὼ δὲ ξηραλοιφήσω ἀπελθών.

καὶ ἡμεῖς, ἦ δʼ ὃς ὁ Φιλῖνος, ἐγώ τε καὶ Ὀνόμαρχος καὶ Ἑλλάνικος οὑτοσὶ ἑψόμεθα· καὶ γὰρ ὁ γνώμων σκιάζει μέσην τὴν πόλον, καὶ δέος μὴ ἐν λουτρίῳ ἀπολουσώμεθα κατόπιν τῶν Καριμάντων¹ μετὰ τοῦ σύρφακος βύζην ὠστιζόμενοι. καὶ ὁ Ἑλλάνικος ἔφη, ἐγὼ δὲ καὶ δυσωπῶ· καὶ γὰρ τὰ κόρα μοι ἐπιτεθόλωσθον καὶ σκαρδαμύττω θαμὰ καὶ ἀρτίδακρύς εἰμι καὶ τὰ ὄμματά μοι φαρμακᾷ καὶ δέομαι Ἀσκληπιάδου τινὸς ὀφθαλμοσόφου, ὃς ταράξας καὶ ἐγχέας μοι φάρμακον ἀπερυθριᾶσαί τε ποιήσει τοὺς ὀφθαλμοὺς καὶ μηκέτι τι λημαλέους εἶναι μηδὲ διερὸν βλέπειν.

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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).) — 4 focus

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myself shall be off and bestow upon myself an inunction sans immersion.”¹

“We,” quoth Philinos, “I and Onomarchus and Hellanicus here, shall have after you, for the style shadows the middle of the bowl,² and it is to be feared that we may lave in the leavings of the bargashes, along with the scum, in a jostle.”” Then said Hellanicus: “I look askew, for my dollies are obfuscate, I nictitate full oft, and I am lachrymose; mine eyes want drugging, I require some scion of Aesculapius, sage in ophthalmotherapy, who will compound and decant a specific for me, and so effect that my ruddy optics may be decoloured and no longer be rheumatic or have a humorous cast.”

Lexiphanes Perseus (The Works of Lucian of Samosata, Vol. 2. Fowler, Henry Watson and Fowler, Francis George, translators. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1905.) — 4 focus

[4] ‘We are with you,' cried Philinus, ‘Onomarchus, Hellanicus, and I; the dial’s mid point is in shadow; beware, or we shall bathe in the Carimants’ water, huddled and pushed by the vulgar herd.” Then said Hellanicus: ‘Ah, and my eyes are disordered; my pupils are turbid, I wink and blink, the tears come unbidden, my eyes crave the ophthalmic leech’s healing drug, mortar-brayed and infused, that they may blush and blear no more, nor motstly peer.'

In such wise conversing, all our company departed.

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Λεξιφάνης

1. Γαριμάντων Meineke (Hesych., Et. Magn.). But the word is very likely from Μαρικᾶς (Herodian in Et. Magn.), meaning κίναιδος (Hesych. s.u. μαρικᾶν), or, perhaps more accurately, παιδικά; for the declension Μαρικᾶς, Μαρικᾶντος cf. Herodian, II, 636, 26 Lentz. Hence Γαριμᾶς (or Γαρίμας) is apparently a degradation of Καριμᾶς. The Γαράμαντες in Libya have nothing to do with this; cf. Lucian, Dips.2.

Lucian Lexiphanes 4

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