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