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Lucian, Lexiphanes, 25


nanAgain, could anything be more ludicrous than for one who claims to be a purist, drawing from the undefiled fountain of antiquity, to mix in (though indeed that reverses the proportion) expressions that would be impossible to the merest schoolboy? I felt as if I should like the earth to swallow me up, when I heard you talk of a man’s chemise, and use valet of a woman; who does not know that a man wears a shirt, and that a valet is male? But you abound in far more flagrant blunders than these: I have chidden, not chode you; we do not write a friend, we write to him; we say ’onest, not honest; these usages of yours cannot claim even alien rights among us. Moreover, we do not like even poetry to read like the dictionary. But the sort of poetry to which your prose corresponds would be Dosiadas’s Altar, Lycophron’s Alexandra, or any more pestilent pedantry that may happen to exist. If you take the pains to unlearn all this, you will have done the best you can for yourself. If you let yourself be seduced by your sweet baits again, I have at least put in my word of warning, and you will have only yourself to blame when you find yourself on the downward path.


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1. Aristophanes, Clouds, 1324-1332, 1338-1339, 1351-1379, 1406-1407, 1421-1424, 1437-1446, 1323 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)

1323. ἀμυνάθετέ μοι τυπτομένῳ πάσῃ τέχνῃ.
2. Artemidorus, Oneirocritica, 2.45, 2.69 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)

3. Theon Aelius, Exercises, 9 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)

4. Lucian, Salaried Posts In Great Houses, 42, 27 (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)

5. Lucian, Hermotimus, Or Sects, 63 (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)

63. Her . Oh, have it your own way, Lycinus. Well then, we have got to live a hundred years, and go through all this trouble? There is no other road to philosophy?Ly . No, none; and we need not complain; as you very truly said, ars longa, vita brevis . But I do not know what has come over you; you now make a grievance of it, if you cannot before set of sun develop into a Chrysippus, a Plato, a Pythagoras.Her . You trap me, and drive me into a corner, Lycinus; yet I never provoked you; it is all envy, I know, because I have made some progress in my studies, whereas you have neglected yourself, when you were old enough to know better.Ly . Seest, then, thy true course? never mind me, but leave me as a lunatic to my follies, and you go on your way and accomplish what you have intended all this time.Her . But you are so masterful, you will not let me make a choice, till I have proved all.Ly . Why, I confess, you will never get me to budge from that. But when you call me masterful, it seems to me you blame the blameless, as the poet says; for I am myself being dragged along by reason, until you bring up some other reason to release me from durance. And here is reason about to talk more masterfully still, you will see; but I suppose you will exonerate it, and blame me.Her . What can it be? I am surprised to hear it still has anything in reserve.
6. Lucian, Lexiphanes, 16 (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)

16. Ly. Thanks, Lexiphanes; enough of drink and reading. I assure you I am full beyond my capacity as it is; if I do not succeed in quickly unloading my stomach of what you have put into it, there is not a doubt I shall go raving mad under the intoxication of your exuberant verbosity. At first I was inclined to be amused; but there is such a lot of it, and all just alike; I pity you now, poor misguided one, trapped in your endless maze, sick unto death, a prey to melancholia.


Subjects of this text:

subject book bibliographic info
age/alter Fuhrer and Soldo, Fallibility and Fallibilism in Ancient Philosophy and Literature (2024) 228
artemidorus of daldis, life and character Thonemann, An Ancient Dream Manual: Artemidorus' the Interpretation of Dreams (2020) 141, 142
battle Borg, Paideia: the World of the Second Sophistic: The World of the Second Sophistic (2008) 61
books, ancient Thonemann, An Ancient Dream Manual: Artemidorus' the Interpretation of Dreams (2020) 141, 142
chrysippus Fuhrer and Soldo, Fallibility and Fallibilism in Ancient Philosophy and Literature (2024) 228
dialect, attic Rothschold, Blanton and Calhoun, The History of Religions School Today: Essays on the New Testament and Related Ancient Mediterranean Texts (2014) 258
dialog/dialogue Fuhrer and Soldo, Fallibility and Fallibilism in Ancient Philosophy and Literature (2024) 228
dikaios (logos) Fuhrer and Soldo, Fallibility and Fallibilism in Ancient Philosophy and Literature (2024) 228
divine being, hermes Rothschold, Blanton and Calhoun, The History of Religions School Today: Essays on the New Testament and Related Ancient Mediterranean Texts (2014) 258
doubt/zweifel Fuhrer and Soldo, Fallibility and Fallibilism in Ancient Philosophy and Literature (2024) 228
dream Borg, Paideia: the World of the Second Sophistic: The World of the Second Sophistic (2008) 61
honor Rothschold, Blanton and Calhoun, The History of Religions School Today: Essays on the New Testament and Related Ancient Mediterranean Texts (2014) 258
king, emperor, marcus aurelius Rothschold, Blanton and Calhoun, The History of Religions School Today: Essays on the New Testament and Related Ancient Mediterranean Texts (2014) 258
language Borg, Paideia: the World of the Second Sophistic: The World of the Second Sophistic (2008) 61; Thonemann, An Ancient Dream Manual: Artemidorus' the Interpretation of Dreams (2020) 141, 142
lucian Borg, Paideia: the World of the Second Sophistic: The World of the Second Sophistic (2008) 61
lucian of samosata Thonemann, An Ancient Dream Manual: Artemidorus' the Interpretation of Dreams (2020) 141, 142
magnesia on the maeander Borg, Paideia: the World of the Second Sophistic: The World of the Second Sophistic (2008) 61
maximus of tyre Thonemann, An Ancient Dream Manual: Artemidorus' the Interpretation of Dreams (2020) 141
nachlässigkeit/vernachlässigung Fuhrer and Soldo, Fallibility and Fallibilism in Ancient Philosophy and Literature (2024) 228
name Rothschold, Blanton and Calhoun, The History of Religions School Today: Essays on the New Testament and Related Ancient Mediterranean Texts (2014) 258
necromancy Borg, Paideia: the World of the Second Sophistic: The World of the Second Sophistic (2008) 61
numerology Thonemann, An Ancient Dream Manual: Artemidorus' the Interpretation of Dreams (2020) 141, 142
old age Fuhrer and Soldo, Fallibility and Fallibilism in Ancient Philosophy and Literature (2024) 228
palm-reading Borg, Paideia: the World of the Second Sophistic: The World of the Second Sophistic (2008) 61
penis' Thonemann, An Ancient Dream Manual: Artemidorus' the Interpretation of Dreams (2020) 142
pheidippides Fuhrer and Soldo, Fallibility and Fallibilism in Ancient Philosophy and Literature (2024) 228
philosophy Rothschold, Blanton and Calhoun, The History of Religions School Today: Essays on the New Testament and Related Ancient Mediterranean Texts (2014) 258
physiognomy Borg, Paideia: the World of the Second Sophistic: The World of the Second Sophistic (2008) 61
rhetoric, dialogue Rothschold, Blanton and Calhoun, The History of Religions School Today: Essays on the New Testament and Related Ancient Mediterranean Texts (2014) 258
rhetoric, satire Rothschold, Blanton and Calhoun, The History of Religions School Today: Essays on the New Testament and Related Ancient Mediterranean Texts (2014) 258
socrates/socratic Fuhrer and Soldo, Fallibility and Fallibilism in Ancient Philosophy and Literature (2024) 228
sophist Borg, Paideia: the World of the Second Sophistic: The World of the Second Sophistic (2008) 61
tyranny Rothschold, Blanton and Calhoun, The History of Religions School Today: Essays on the New Testament and Related Ancient Mediterranean Texts (2014) 258