The Works of Lucian: Volume 4
Lucian
Jan 1870 · General Books
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book:, THE EUNUCH, A DIALOGUE. About the time when this was written, a Number of Eunuchs, imported among/) other eaftern Luxuries, had fpread themfelves over Greece, Rome, and other Parts, ajjuming various Offices and Employments, who, probably, finding Philo- fophy much in vogue, took upon them to teach it to the young Nobility: this furnifhed Luc Ian, who, we muft acknowlege, had a Kind of Shan- dean Propenjily to Things of this Nature, with fcme ludicrous Ideas, which he Jports with no fmall Degree of Pleafantry and Humour in the following Dialogue. PAMPHILUS, LYCINUS; PAMPHILUS. WHENCE come you, Lycinus, and why fo merry ? you are always chearful, but this is fomething more than ordinary, for you feem ready to burft with laughter. L Y C I N U S. I come, my friend, Pamphilus, from the market-place; and I fhall make you laugh too, whenWhen I tdl youi I have juft now been entertained with a difpute between two philofophers. PAMPHILUS. For philofophers to difpute with one another is truly ridiculous indeed, who, of all men, be the caufe ever fo great, fhould, doubtlefs, make up the matter amicably. L Y C I N U S. Very amicably indeed; for they have thrown cart loads of abufe on one another, roaring and Wrahgling as long as they could. PAMPHILUS. About their different tenets and opinions, I fuppofe. L Y C I N U S. Not fo, I afiure you; for their doctrines and opinions are exactly the fame; it was quite; another thing: they have appealed, however, to the judgement of the oldeft and graved men of the city, before whom hone, who had any modefty, would dare to fay what was improper or indecent. Cart Itadi.'] Greek, Qm( a/a]tf frapmiut, tota plauftra conviviorum; the tranilation, we fee, however, from the familiarity of the expreffion, it may..
Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book:, THE EUNUCH, A DIALOGUE. About the time when this was written, a Number of Eunuchs, imported among/) other eaftern...
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