Lucian, Volume II (Loeb Classical Library)

THE LOEB CLASSICAL LIBRARY FOUNDED BY JAHES LOEB,

LL.D.

EDITED BY tT. E. PAGE,

fE. CAPPS,

PH.D., LL.D.

L. A.

L.H.D.

POST,

E. H.

C,H., LITT.D.

tW. H.

D.

WARMINGTON,

LUCIAN II

ROUSE,

litt.d.

m.a., f.b.hist.soc.

LUCIAN WITH AN ENGLISH TRANSLATION BY A.

M.

HARMON

or PRINCETON DNIVKR8ITT

IN EIGHT

VOLUMES

11

LONDON

WILLIAM HEINEMANN LTD CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS

HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS MOMLX

First Published, 1915

RepHnted, 1919, 1929, 1953,

Printed in Great Britain

19M

CONTENTS PAGE

PREFATORY NOTS LIST OF LUCIAN'S

vii

WORKS

ix

THE DOWNWARD JOURNEY, OR THE TYRANT (CATAPLUS)

1

....

59

ZEUS CATECHIZED (JUPPITER CONFUTATUS)

89

ZEUS RANTS (JUPPITER TRAGOEDUS)

THE DREAM, OR THE COCK (GALLUS)

171

PROMETHEUS

241

ICAROMBNIPPUS, OR THE SKY-MAN

267

TIMON, OR THE MISANTHROPE

325 395

CHARON, OR THE INSPECTORS PHILOSOPHIES FOR SALE (VITARUM AUOTIO)

INDEX

....

449 513

PREFATORY NOFE possible exception of the Downward the pieces in this volume have a double Journey, MSS. tradition, one branch of which (y) is best

With the all

represented by Vaticanus 90 (r), the other (/3) by Vindobonensis 123 (B), very incomplete, and inadequately supplemented by the other MSS. of that group.

For details see Karl Mras, Die Oberlieferung

Lucians, Vienna, 1911.

The

text here presented

is

the result of a careful

revision based not only upon the published collations but upon photographs of V for the one tradition,

U

(Vaticanus

1324),

Z (Vaticanus the

1323) and

N

by the (Parisinus 2957) Princeton University Library through the kindness of its head. Dr. E. C. Richardson. My aim in for

other,

supplied

been to eliminate readings which derive from inferior MSS., and to give due weight to the

revision has

y tradition.

In the main, the orthography

r, but as between crw- and ^vvDindorf in writing aw- throughout.

I

is

that of

have followed

vii

PREFATORY NOTE Under the circumstances

it is no longer feasible note variations from the text of Jaeobitz. A

to

select apparatus

would be more to the point, but

would be too cumbersome

L.CL.

for the

Therefore

only the most vital discrepancies of the MSS. will appear henceforth in the footnotes, which as a rule will record

simply conjectures.

The

y and /3 r indicates that a sigla

need no further explanation ; reading conies from an inferior MS. and will

is

probably

conjectural.

In virtue of

open

its

position in r, the Soloecista should

this volume, but

it is

so uninteresting

and

so

impossible to translate adequately tliat it has been relegated to a less conspicuous place at the end of

the series, which will comprise seven volumes instead of eight, as at first announced.

A

conjecture

Volume

I

with

which appears

my

initials

on

attached,

right of priority to Madvig, and

has been anticipated capital

page

378

belongs by

Eduard Schwartz

by Richard Bentley in emendation on page 180. -

of

his

LIST OF LUCIAN'S

WORKS

SHOWING THEIR DIVISION INTO VOLUMES IN THIS EDITION Volume

I

—Hippias or the Bath —Dionj'sus— — — Heracles— Amber or The Swans — Fly Nigrinus Demonax— The Hall —My Native Land — Octogenarians— A True Story and II —Slander— The Consonants at Law —The Phalaris

I

and

II

Thtji

I

Carousal or The Lapiths.

Volume

II

— —

The Downward Journey or The Tyrant Zeus Catechized Zeus Rants The Dream or The Coct Prometheus Icaro menippus or The Sky-man Timon or The Misanthrope Charon or The Inspector Philosophies for Sale.

— —

—

—

—

Volume

—

III

—The Double —The Ignorant Book Collector—The Dream or Lucian's Career— The Parasite —The Lover of Lie^^—The Judgement of the Goddesses— On The Dead Come

to Life or

Indictment or Trials by Jury

The Fisherman

— On

Sacrifices

Salaried Posts in Great Houses.

Volume IV

— — — — Portraiture Defended — The Goddess of Surrye.

Anacharsis or Athletics Menippus or The Descent into On Funerals A Professor of Public Speaking Alexander the False Prophet Essays in Portraiture Essays

Hades in

—

— ix

LIST OF LUCIAN'S >* VOLTTME

WORKS

V

—

—

The Passing of Peregrinus The Runaways Toxaris or Friendship The Dance Lexiphanes The Eunuch Astrology The Mistaken Critic The Parliament of the Gods TEeTyrannicide Disowned

—

—

—

—

—

—

—

—

.

Volume VI

—Dipsades— Saturnalia—Herodotus —Zeuxis—Pro — — — — Lapsu — Apologia Harmonides Hesiodus Scytha Hermotimus— Prometheus Es —Navigium. Historia

Volume VII Dead

—

— —

Dialogues of the Sea-Gods Dialogues of the Gods (exc. Deorum Judicium cf. Vol. Ill) Dialogues of the Courtesans. Dialogues

of

the

Volume VIII

—Lucius or the Ass—Amores—Halcyon — Demosthenes — Podagra — Ocypus — Cyniscus — Philopatris — ChariSoloecista

demus—Nero.

THE WORKS OF LUCIAN THE DOWNWARD JOURNEY, OR THE TYRANT A

scene in the realm of Hades, showing that cobblers fare better there than kings. The lower world is depicted also in the Menippus and in the Dialogues of the Dead. All these pieces were deeply influenced by Cynic satire and in particular by the Necyia of Menippus. Helm maintains that the Downward Jowney is based on a couple of scenes in the

Necyia which Lucian left unused in writing his Menippus and subsequently worked up into a separate dialogue, prebut there fixing an introduction of his own enough evidence to make this theory plausible, ;

is

let

hardly alone

incontestable.

The part played by the Fates is unusual. Instead of spinning destinies up aloft as in the Charon, two of them are given a share in the convoying of souls to the underworld, Atropos turning them over to Hermes and Clotho presio^ KOI ofiLX^V Kol aKoTo^;, iv Se rfo ovpavfp (f)ai8pa rrdvra koi tj re dfi^pocria ttoWtj Kol TO veKTUp d