Lucian Soleocista 5

ed. Karl Jacobitz

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Λυκῖνος

κἀγὼ μὲν οὕτως. Σωκράτης δὲ ὁ ἀπὸ Μόψου, ᾧ συνεγενόμην ἐν Αἰγύπτῳ, τὰ τοιαῦτα ἔλεγεν ἀνεπαχθῶς καὶ οὐκ ἤλεγχε τὸν ἁμαρτάνοντα. πρὸς μέντοι γε τὸν ἐρωτήσαντα πηνίκα ἔξεισι; v.2.p.561 Τίς γὰρ ἄν, ἔφη, ἀποκριθείη σοι περὶ τῆς τήμερον ὡς ἐξιών; ἑτέρου δὲ φήσαντος, Ἱκανὰ ἔχω τὰ πατρῷα, Πῶς φής; εἶπε· τέθνηκε γὰρ ὁ πατήρ σοι; ἄλλου δὲ αὖθις v.2.p.562 λέγοντος, Πατριώτης ἔστι μοι· Ἐλάνθανες ἄρα ἡμᾶς, ἔφη, βάρβαρος ὤν. ἄλλου δὲ εἰπόντος, Ὁ δεῖνά ἐστι μεθύσης, Μητρός, εἶπεν, ἢ πῶς λέγεις; ἑτέρου δὲ ἐκλελογχότας, v.2.p.563 Διπλασιάζεις, ἔφη, τοὺς ἐξειληχότας. εἰπόντος δέ τινος, Λῆμμα πάρεστιν αὐτῷ, διὰ τῶν δύο μ, Οὐκοῦν, ἔφη, λήψεται, εἰ λῆμμα αὐτῷ πάρεστιν. ἑτέρου v.2.p.564 δὲ εἰπόντος, Πρόσεισιν ὁ μεῖραξ οὑμὸς φίλος, Ἔπειτα, ἔφη, λοιδορεῖς φίλον ὄντα; πρὸς δὲ τὸν εἰπόντα, Δεδίττομαι τὸν ἄνδρα καὶ φεύγω, Σύ, ἔφη, καὶ ὅταν τινὰ εὐλαβηθῇς, διώξῃ. ἄλλου δὲ εἰπόντος, Τῶν φίλων ὁ κορυφαιότατος, v.2.p.565 Χάριέν γε, ἔφη, τὸ τῆς κορυφῆς ποιεῖν τι ἐπάνω. καὶ ἐξορμῶ δέ τινος εἰπόντος, Καὶ τίς ἐστιν, εἶπεν, ὃν ἐξορμᾷς; ἐξ ἐπιπολῆς δέ τινος εἰπόντος, Ἐκ τῆς v.2.p.566 ἐπιπολῆς εἶπεν, ὡς ἐκ τῆς πιθάκνης. λέγοντος δέ τινος Συνετάξατό μοι, Καὶ λόχον δέ, ἔφη, Ξενοφῶν εἶπε συνετάξατο. ἄλλου δὲ εἰπόντος, Περιέστην αὐτὸν ὥστε λαθεῖν, Θαυμαστόν, ἔφη, εἰ εἷς ὤν περιέστης τὸν ἕνα. ἑτέρου δὲ λέγοντος, Συνεκρίνετο αὐτῷ, Καὶ διεκρίνετο πάντως, εἶπεν.

Soleocista. Lucian. ed. Karl Jacobitz. Leipzig. 1913.

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Current edition Perseus

Ψευδοσοφιστής ἢ Σολοικιστής (Greek) (Lucian. Luciani Samosatensis Opera, Vol. 3. Jacobitz, Karl, editor. Leipzig: Teubner, 1913.)

Translations (1)

The Purist Purized Perseus (The Works of Lucian of Samosata, Vol. 4. Fowler, Henry Watson and Fowler, Francis George, translators. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1905.) — 5 focus

Lycinus

This is my blunt way, you see. Socrates of Mopsus, with whom I was acquainted in Egypt, used to put his corrections more delicately, so as not to humiliate the offender. Here are some specimens: What time do you set out on your travels?—What time? Oh, I see, you thought I started to-day.

The patrimonial income supplies me well enough.—Patrimonial? But your father is not dead?

So-and-so is a tribes-man of mine.—Oh, you are a savage, are you?

The fellow is a boozy.—Oh, Boozy was his mother’s name, was it?

Worser luck I never knew.—Well, you need not make it worserer.

I always said he had a good ’eart.—Yes, quite an artist.

So glad to see you, old cock!—Come, allow me humanity.

Contemptuous fellow! I would not go near him.—If he were contemptible, it would not matter, I suppose.

He is the most unique of friends.—Good; one likes degrees in uniqueness.

How aggravating!—Indeed? what does it aggravate?

So I ascended up.—Ingenious man, doubling your speed like that.

I had to do it; I was in an engagement.—Like Xenophon’s hoplites.

I got round him.—Comprehensive person.

They went to law, but were compounded.—You don’t say they didn’t get apart again?