Lucian of Samosata, Hesiod, ed. Kenneth Kilburn, 9

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Ὥστε τὰς μὲν τοιαύτας ἀπολογίας καὶ μαντείας ἄφες. ἐκεῖνο δὲ ὃ εἴρηκας ἐν ἀρχῇ, ἴσως παραδέχεσθαι ἄξιον, ὡς οὐδὲν ᾔδεισθα τῶν λεγομένων, ἀλλά τις ἔμπνοια δαιμόνιος ἐνεποίει σοι τὰ μέτρα, οὐ πάνυ οὐδὲ ἐκείνη βέβαιος οὖσα· οὐ γὰρ ἂν τὰ μὲν ἐπετέλει τῶν ὑπεσχημένων, τὰ δ’ ἀτελῆ ἀπελίμπανεν.

Hesiod. Lucian of Samosata. ed. Kenneth Kilburn. Medford, MA. Perseus 5.0.

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Διάλογος πρὸς Ἡσίοδον (Greek) (Lucian, Vol. 6. Kilburn, Kenneth, editor. London: William Heinemann, Ltd.; Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1959 (unrenewed copyright).)

Editions (1)

Διάλογος πρὸς Ἡσίοδον Perseus (Lucian. Luciani Samosatensis Opera, Vol. 3. Jacobitz, Karl, editor. Leipzig: Teubner, 1913.) — 9 focus

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ὥστε τὰς μὲν τοιαύτας ἀπολογίας καὶ μαντείας ἄφες· ἐκεῖνο δὲ ὃ εἴρηκας ἐν ἀρχῇ, ἴσως παραδέξασθαι ἄξιον, ὡς οὐδὲν ᾔδεισθα τῶν λεγομένων, ἀλλά τις ἔμπνοια δαιμόνιος ἐνεποίει σοι τὰ μέτρα, οὐ πάνυ οὐδὲ ἐκείνη βέβαιος οὖσα· οὐ γὰρ ἂν τὰ μὲν ἐπετέλει τῶν ὑπεσχημένων, τὰ δʼ ἀτελῆ ἀπελίμπανεν.

Translations (2)

A conversation with Hesiod Perseus (Lucian, Vol. 6. Kilburn, Kenneth, translator. London: William Heinemann, Ltd.; Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1959 (unrenewed copyright).) — 9 focus

Then away with such pleas and prophecies! But that point you made at the beginning, perhaps that can be admitted, that you knew nothing of what you said; it was some divine inspiration filled you with your verses, and not so very reliable at that, or it would not have kept part of what it promised and left the rest unfulfilled.

A Word with Hesiod Perseus (The Works of Lucian of Samosata, Vol. 4. Fowler, Henry Watson and Fowler, Francis George, translators. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1905.) — 9 focus

[9] No, Hesiod’: your defence will not do; nor will your prophecies. But I dare say there is something in what you said at first—that you knew not what you wrote, by reason of the divine afflatus versifying within you. And that afflatus was no such great matter, either: afflatuses should not promise more than they mean to perform.

Lucian of Samosata Hesiod 9

ed. Kenneth Kilburn

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