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Updated: June 11, 2025
'My dear Eucrates, said I, 'if bronze is bronze, and if that statue was cast by Demetrius of Alopece, who dealt not in Gods but in men, then I cannot anticipate any danger from a statue of Pelichus; even the menaces of the original would not have alarmed me particularly. Here Antigonus, the doctor, put in a word.
Then there was Antigonus the doctor, who I suppose attended in his professional capacity. Eucrates seemed to be better already: he had come to an understanding with the gout, which had now settled down in his feet again. He motioned me to a seat on the couch beside him.
'Ah, talking of superstition, now, says Eucrates, 'that reminds me: what do you make of oracles, for instance, and omens? of inspired utterances, of voices from the shrine, of the priestess's prophetic lines? You will deny all that too, of course?
I came away in the middle of it; he was too much for me altogether; Furies could not have driven me out more effectually than his marvel-working tongue. Phi. What, Eucrates, of all credible witnesses? That venerably bearded sexagenarian, with his philosophic leanings?
Eucrates was not in the least alarmed, but turned the seal of his ring, when a vast chasm opened in the earth, into which she disappeared.
Why, he ought to be only too pleased to be complimented with a cup of mead or a garland, like other dead men. 'Now here, Eucrates went on, 'is a thing that I saw happen five years ago, in the presence of witnesses. It was during the vintage. I had left the labourers busy in the vineyard at midday, and was walking off into the wood, occupied with my own thoughts.
In the opening of the Philopseudus, Lucian asks what it is that makes men so fond of a lie, and comments on their delight in romancing themselves, which is only equalled by the earnest attention with which they receive other people's efforts in the same direction. Tychiades goes on to describe his visit to Eucrates, a distinguished philosopher, who was ill in bed.
Eucrates has seen over a thousand ghosts in his time, and is now quite used to them, though at first he found them rather upsetting; but he had been given a ring and a charm by an Arab, which enabled him to deal with anything supernatural that came in his way.
Take away the legendary treasures of Greece, and you condemn the whole race of ciceroni to starvation: sightseers do not want the truth; they would not take it at a gift. However, I surrender to your ridicule any one who has no such motive, and yet rejoices in lies. Tychiades. Very well: now I have just been with the great Eucrates, who treated me to a whole string of old wives' tales.
And then dinner was brought in: such dainties, Pythagoras, such variety! and everything served on gold or silver. Golden cups, smart servants, musicians, jesters, altogether, it was delightful. So that is what the dinner was like. Cock. Not much of a one, especially with that old fool for your neighbour. Mi. And now for the dream, which was about no other than Eucrates.
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