THE LOEB CLASSICAL LIBRARYFOUNDED BY JAHES LOEB,EDITED BYtT. E. PAGE,C,H., LITT.D.
LL.D.
fE. CAPPS,L. A.
PH.D., LL.D.
tW. H.
D.
ROUSE,
litt.d.
POST,
L.H.D.
E. H.
WARMINGTON,
m.a., f.b.hist.soc.
LUCIANII
LUCIANWITH AN ENGLISH TRANSLATION BYA.
M.
HARMON
or PRINCETON DNIVKR8ITT
IN EIGHT11
VOLUMES
LONDON
WILLIAM HEINEMANN LTDCAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS
HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESSMOMLX
First Published, 1915
RepHnted, 1919, 1929, 1953,
19M
Printed in Great Britain
CONTENTSPAGE
PREFATORY NOTSLIST OF LUCIAN'S
vii
WORKS
ix1
THE DOWNWARD JOURNEY, OR THE TYRANT (CATAPLUS)ZEUS CATECHIZED (JUPPITER CONFUTATUS) ZEUS RANTS (JUPPITER TRAGOEDUS)
....
59
89171
THE DREAM, OR THE COCK (GALLUS)
PROMETHEUSICAROMBNIPPUS, OR THE SKY-MANTIMON, OR THE MISANTHROPE
241
267 325395
CHARON, OR THE INSPECTORSPHILOSOPHIES FOR SALE (VITARUM AUOTIO)
....
449513
INDEX
PREFATORY NOFEpossible exception of the Downward the pieces in this volume have a double Journey, MSS. tradition, one branch of which (y) is best
With theall
represented by Vaticanus 90 (r), the other (/3) by Vindobonensis 123 (B), very incomplete, and inadequately supplemented by the other MSS. of thatgroup.
For details see Karl Mras, Die Oberlieferungtext here presented
Lucians, Vienna, 1911.
The
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),for
Z (Vaticanustheother,
1323) and
N
by the (Parisinus 2957) Princeton University Library through the kindness of its head. Dr. E. C. Richardson. My aim insuppliedrevision has
been to eliminate readings which derive from inferior MSS., and to give due weight to they tradition.
In the main, the orthographyI
is
that of
r, but as between crw- and ^vvDindorf in writing aw- throughout.
have followed
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PREFATORY NOTEUnder the circumstancestoit is no longer feasible note variations from the text of Jaeobitz. A
select apparatus
would be more to the point, butfor the
would be too cumbersome
L.CL.
Therefore
only the most vital discrepancies of the MSS. will appear henceforth in the footnotes, which as a rulewill recordwill
simply conjectures.
The
need no further explanation ; reading conies from an inferior MS. andconjectural.
y and /3 r indicates that asiglais
probably
In virtue of
its
position in r, the Soloecista shouldit is
open
this volume, but
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
conjectureI
which appears
on
page
378
of
Volume
with
my
initials
attached,
belongs byhis
right of priority to Madvig, and
Eduard Schwartz
has been anticipatedcapital
by Richard Bentley in emendation on page 180.-
LIST OF LUCIAN'S
WORKS
SHOWING THEIR DIVISION INTO VOLUMESIN THIS EDITIONVolumePhalarisI
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 TheandIIThtji
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.
VolumeThe Dead Cometo Life or
III
The Double The Ignorant Book CollectorThe Dream or Lucian's Career The Parasite The Lover of Lie^^The Judgement of the Goddesses OnIndictment or Trials by Jury
On
The FishermanSacrifices
Salaried Posts in Great Houses.
Volume IVHadesin
Anacharsis or Athletics Menippus or The Descent into On Funerals A Professor of Public Speaking Alexander the False Prophet Essays in Portraiture Essays
Portraiture Defended The Goddess of Surrye.
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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 SaturnaliaHerodotus ZeuxisPro Lapsu Apologia Harmonides Hesiodus Scytha Hermotimus Prometheus Es Navigium.Historia
Volume VIIDialoguesof
Dialogues of the Sea-Gods Dialogues of the Gods (exc. Deorum Judicium cf. Vol. Ill) Dialogues of the Courtesans.the
Dead
Volume VIII
Lucius or the AssAmoresHalcyon Demosthenes Podagra Ocypus Cyniscus Philopatris ChariSoloecista
demusNero.
THE WORKS OF LUCIANTHE DOWNWARD JOURNEY, OR THE TYRANTscene 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
A
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 presi