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Updated: May 12, 2025

I stared at him in amazement, not knowing what to make of it: one moment I thought he must be out of his mind; the next I concluded he had been a humbug all along, an ape in a lion's skin. Oh, it was monstrous. Phi. Do tell me all about it; I am curious to see the quackery that shelters beneath so long a beard. Tyc.

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

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. Tyc. Very well: now I have just been with the great Eucrates, who treated me to a whole string of old wives' tales.

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

Ride or out-ride, shoot or out-shoot? Tyc. Still the same. Si. So I presume an out-diner is better than a diner? Tyc. Indisputable. Henceforward I shall come to you morning and afternoon like a schoolboy for lessons. And I am sure you ought to do your very best for me, as your first pupil. Anacharsis. Solon An. Why do your young men behave like this, Solon?

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

We know very well that all or most philosophers have had the wretched fate they deserved, some by poison after condemnation for heinous crimes, some by burning alive, some by strangury, some in exile. No one can adduce a sponger's death to match these; he eats and drinks, and dies a blissful death. If you are told that any died a violent one, be sure it was nothing worse than indigestion. Tyc.

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