By Lucian, C. D. N. Costa
A translation of fourteen of Lucian's dialogues, delivering a cross-section of his kinds and satirical objectives, from critical polemic (Alexander, Peregrinus) to lighter squibs and character-portrayals (Dialogues of the Courtesans). additionally integrated are how you can Write historical past and his most renowned piece, a real historical past, a parody of the preferred trend for superb traveler's stories. every piece has a precis advent, and notes to elucidate imprecise allusions within the textual content. The creation examines in a few element Lucian's value as a dominant Atticizer within the interval of the second one Sophistic, in addition to his terribly frequent impression on later ecu literature.
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For instance, that man who is eagerly building himself a house and urging on the workmen–– what would he do if he knew that as soon as it is finished and has the roof on, he will be on his way, leaving his heir to enjoy it, and not even, poor wretch, having a meal in it? And what about that one rejoicing because his wife has borne him a son, and entertaining his friends on the occasion, and giving the boy his own father’s name––if he knew that the boy would die at years old, do you think he would rejoice at his birth?
One more question. Though you are blind (that can’t be denied), and what is more, pale and heavy-footed, how do you come to have so many lovers that everyone looks longingly at you, and if they find you they think themselves happy, but if they miss you life isn’t worth living? Indeed, I know quite a few so madly in love with you that they went and hurled themselves ‘into the deep-yawning sea’ and ‘down from the lofty crags’,* thinking you disdained them, when in fact you just couldn’t see them. But I’m sure even you will admit, if you know yourself, that they must be crazy to be infatuated with such a lover.
But the man who has suddenly fallen into riches, a vulgar, thick-skinned fellow, who still shudders at the thought of shackles, pricks up his ears if someone passing just cracks a whip, and pays reverence to a mill-house* as if it was a holy shrine––he is quite insufferable to those he meets, insulting free men and whipping his fellow-slaves, to see if he too is allowed to behave like that now. At length he becomes involved with a tart, or acquires a mania for breeding horses, or gets into the hands of flatterers who swear that he is more handsome than Nireus, nobler than Cecrops or Codrus, craftier than Odysseus, and richer than sixteen Croesuses* put together: and so the poor wretch squanders in a moment what he gradually amassed through all his perjuries, his swindles, and his villainies.