Lucian, Pseudologista, ed. Austin Morris Harmon, 7

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[7] ἐν δὲ τούτοις ἅπασι καὶ ὁ τὸν λόγον τόνδε συγγράψας ἦν ἐν τοῖς γελῶσι καὶ αὐτός. τί δʼ οὐκ ἔμελλεν γελᾶν ἐφʼ οὕτω περιφανεῖ καὶ ἀπιθάνῳ καὶ ἀναισχύντῳ τολμήματι; καί πως (ἔστιν δὲ ἀκρατὴς γέλωτος) ὁ μὲν τὴν φωνὴν ἐντρέψας ἐς μέλος, ὡς ᾤετο, θρῆνόν τινα ἐπηύλει τῷ Πυθαγόρᾳ, ὁ δέ, τοῦτο δὴ τὸ τοῦ λόγου, ὄνον κιθαρίζειν πειρώμενον ὁρῶν ἀνεκάγχασε μάλα ἡδύ, ὁ ποιητὴς οὗτος ὁ ἐμός· ὁ δὲ εἶδεν ἐπιστραφείς. τοῦτο ἐξεπολέμωσεν αὐτούς, τό τε ἔναγχος ἐνθένδε.¹

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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).) — 7 focus

[7] “Among all these, among those who laughed, was the writer of these words. And why should not he laugh at a piece of cheek so manifest and unconvincing and shameless? So, somehow or other, being one who cannot control his laughter, when the speaker had attuned his voice to song, as he thought, and was intoning a regular dirge over Pythagoras, our author, seeing an ass trying to play the lyre, as the saying goes, burst into a very melodious cachinnation, and the other turned and saw him. That created a state of war between them, and the recent affair sprang from it.

Notes on the current edition

Ψευδολογιστής

1. ἐνθένδε The text is that of N, interpreted by adding a comma after αὐτούς and writing τό τε for τότε. The full stop is set after ἔναγχος in ΓA(MFE) and previous editions. But ἐνθένδε makes an awkward anacoluthon with what follows (hence ἔνθεν δὲ ΓΑ); moreover, τότε ἔναγχος is neither idiomatic (hence the omission of τότε in MF) nor consistent with ποτέ (6) and τοῦ πάλαι ἐκείνου γέλωτος (8).

Lucian Pseudologista 7

ed. Austin Morris Harmon

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