The Works of Lucian of Samosata

 Table of Contents

 The Vision A Chapter of Autobiography

 A Literary Prometheus

 Nigrinus A Dialogue

 Fr . Stay, gentle enthusiast. Take a good breath, and start again I am waiting to hear what Nigrinus said. You beat about the bush in a manner truly

 the turmoil of Rome? slander and insolence and gluttony, flatterers and false friends, legacy-hunters and murderers? And what wilt thou do here? thou

 and resolved henceforth to keep my house. I lead the life you see - a spiritless, womanish life, most men would account it - holding converse with Phi

 For as it is not every man that is maddened by the sound of the Phrygian flute, but only those who are inspired of Cybele, and by those strains are re

 Trial in the Court of Vowels Archon, Aristarchus of Phalerum. Seventh Pyanepsion. Court of the Seven Vowels. Action for assault with robbery. Sigma v

 Timon the Misanthrope Timon. Zeus. Hermes. Plutus. Poverty. Gnathonides. Philiades. Demeas. Thrasycles. Blepsias.

 Prometheus on Caucasus

 Dialogues of the Gods

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 II

 III

 VI

 VII

 XI

 XII

 XIII

 XIV

 XV

 XVI

III

Zeus. Hermes

Zeus. Hermes, you know Inachus's beautiful daughter?

Her. I do. Io, you mean?

Zeus. Yes; she is not a girl now, but a heifer.

Her. Magic at work! how did that come about?

Zeus. Hera had a jealous fit, and transformed her. But that is not all; she has thought of a new punishment for the poor thing. She has put a cowherd in charge, who is all over eyes; this Argus, as he is called, pastures the heifer, and never goes to sleep.

Her. Well, what am I to do?

Zeus. Fly down to Nemea, where the pasture is, kill Argus, take Io across the sea to Egypt, and convert her into Isis. She shall be henceforth an Egyptian Goddess, flood the Nile, regulate the winds, and rescue mariners.

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