basthes

Updated: May 20, 2025

Already the brute had fallen upon him, and was clutching him by the throat and beginning to tear him to pieces, when Belitta, leaping to earth, rushed upon him from behind, and attempted to drag him off, and to turn his rage upon himself, thrusting his hands into the brute's mouth, and doing his best to extricate Basthes from those teeth.

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Belitta was once hunting with his friend Basthes, when the latter was torn from his horse by a lion.

of Samosata Lucian - Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03