Lucian, Pseudologista, ed. Austin Morris Harmon, 24

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[24] καὶ τοιοῦτος αὐτὸς ὢν κατεγέλας τῶν ἄλλων ἐπʼ ὀνόμασι καὶ ῥήμασιν, ἔργα τοιαῦτα καὶ τηλικαῦτα ἐργαζόμενος. καίτοι ἐγὼ μὲν ἀποφράδα μὴ εἰδὼς ᾐσχυνόμην ἂν μᾶλλον, οὐχ ὅπως εἰπὼν ἀρνηθείην ἄν· σὲ δὲ οὐδεὶς ᾐτιάσατο ἡμῶν βρωμολόγους λέγοντα καὶ τροπομάσθλητας καὶ ῥησιμετρεῖν καὶ ἀθηνιῶ¹ καὶ ἀνθοκρατεῖν καὶ σφενδικίζειν καὶ χειροβλιμᾶσθαι.² κακὸν κακῶς σε ὁ λόγιος Ἑρμῆς ἐπιτρίψειεν αὐτοῖς λόγοις. ποῦ γὰρ ταῦτα τῶν βιβλίων εὑρίσκεις; ἐν γωνίᾳ που τάχα τῶν ἰαλέμων τινὸς ποιητῶν κατορωρυγμένα, εὐρῶτος καὶ ἀραχνίων μεστά, ἤ που ἐκ τῶν Φιλαινίδος Δέλτων, ἃς διὰ χειρὸς ἔχεις. σοῦ μέντοι καὶ τοῦ σοῦ στόματος ἄξια.

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

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The Mistaken Critic, or a Discourse on the Word Perseus (Lucian, Vol. 5. Harmon, Austin Morris, editor. London: William Heinemann, Ltd.; Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1936 (printing).) — 24 focus

[24] And you, who are of that sort, laughed at others in the matter of words and phrases, when you were doing such terrible deeds! For my part, had I not known the word nefandous, I should have been ashamed, so far am I from denying that I used it. In your own case, none of us criticised you for saying “bromologous” and “tropomasthletes” and “to rhesimeter,” and “Athenio,” and “anthocracy” and “sphendicise” and “‘cheiroblime.”¹ May Hermes, Lord of Language, blot you out miserably, language and all, for the miserable wretch that you are! Where in literature do you find these treasures? Perhaps buried somewhere in the closet of some composer of dirges, full of mildew and spiders’ webs, or from the Tablets of Philaenis,² which you keep in hand. For you, however, and for your lips they are quite good enough.

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Ψευδολογιστής

1. ἀθηνιῶ After ἀθηνιῶ MSS. have τὸ Ἀθηπῶν ἐπιθυμῶ, omitted in ed. Flor., 1496.

2. χειροβλήμαοθαι MSS., corrected by Cobet.

Lucian Pseudologista 24

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