toxaris

Updated: May 26, 2025

What do you think of him, Toxaris? This is something like friendship, is it not, to accept such a bequest as this, and to show such respect for a friend's last wishes? May we pass this as one of my five? Tox. Excellent as was the behaviour of Aretaeus, I admire still more Eudamidas's confidence in his friends.

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

The mound is of no great size, and the pillar lies prostrate: yet it never lacks a garland, and there are statements to the effect that fever-patients have been known to be cured by the hero; which indeed is not surprising, considering that he once healed an entire city. However, my reason for mentioning Toxaris was this.

of Samosata Lucian - Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 02

In this frame of mind he had already reached the Ceramicus, when his good genius appeared to him in the guise of Toxaris. The attention of the latter was immediately arrested by the dress of his native country, nor was it likely that he would have any difficulty in recognizing Anacharsis, who was of noble birth and of the highest rank in Scythia.

of Samosata Lucian - Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 02

This tomb was pointed out by Dimaenete as the place from which he issued with his instructions about the wine; and beneath it Toxaris was found buried, his identity being established not merely by the inscription, of which only a part remained legible, but also by the figure engraved on the monument, which was that of a Scythian, with a bow, ready strung, in his left hand, and in the right what appeared to be a book.

of Samosata Lucian - Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 02