Lucian, Eunuchus, ed. Austin Morris Harmon, 7

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Λυκῖνος

τὰ μὲν πρῶτα ὑπʼ αἰδοῦς καὶ δειλίας — οἰκεῖον γὰρ αὐτοῖς τὸ τοιοῦτον — ἐπὶ πολὺ ἐσιώπα καὶ ἠρυθρία καὶ ἰδίων φανερὸς ἦν, τέλος δὲ λεπτόν τι καὶ γυναικεῖον ἐμφθεγξάμενος οὐ δίκαια ποιεῖν ἔφη τὸν Διοκλέα φιλοσοφίας ἀποκλείοντα εὐνοῦχον ὄντα, ἧς καὶ γυναιξὶ μετεῖναι· καὶ παρήγοντο Ἀσπασία καὶ Διοτίμα καὶ Θαργηλία συνηγορήσουσαι αὐτῷ, καί τις Ἀκαδημαϊκὸς εὐνοῦχος ἐκ Πελασγῶν τελῶν,¹ ὀλίγον πρὸ ἡμῶν εὐδοκιμήσας ἐν τοῖς Ἕλλησιν. ὁ Διοκλῆς δὲ κἀκεῖνον αὐτόν, εἰ περιῆν² καὶ τῶν ὁμοίων μετεποιεῖτο, εἶρξαι³ ἂν οὐ καταπλαγεὶς αὐτοῦ τὴν παρὰ τοῖς πολλοῖς δόξαν· καί τινας καὶ αὐτὸς ἀπεμνημόνευε λόγους καὶ πρὸς ἐκεῖνον ὑπό τε Στωϊκῶν καὶ Κυνικῶν μάλιστα εἰρημένους πρὸς τὸ γελοιότερον ἐπὶ τῷ ἀτελεῖ τοῦ σώματος.

Eunuchus. Lucian. ed. Austin Morris Harmon. Medford, MA. Perseus 4.0.

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

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The Eunuch Perseus (Lucian, Vol. 5. Harmon, Austin Morris, editor. London: William Heinemann, Ltd.; Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1936 (printing).) — 7 focus

[7]

LYCINUS

At first, through shame and cowardice—for that sort of behaviour is natural to them—he remained silent a long while and blushed and was plainly in a sweat, but finally in a weak, effeminate voice he said that Diocles was acting unjustly in trying to exclude a eunuch from philosophy, in which even women had a part; and he brought in Aspasia, Diotima, and Thargelia¹ to support his also a certain Academic eunuch hailing from among the Pelasgians, who shortly before our time achieved a high reputation among the Greeks.² But if that person himself were alive and advanced similar claims, Diocles would (he said) have excluded him too, undismayed by his reputation among the common sort; and he repeated a number of humorous remarks made to the man by Stoics and Cynics regarding his physical imperfection.³

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Εὐνοῦχος

1. ἐκ πελασγῶν τελῶν marginal in ΓΕ: ἐκ κελτῶν ΓΕ, vulg.

2. εἰ περιῆν ΩbΓc: εἴπερ ἦν ΩΓ cett.

3. εἶφξαι Γ: εἶρξεν vulg. For the hiatus cf. διατρῖψαι ἄν, § 5.

Lucian Eunuchus 7

ed. Austin Morris Harmon

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