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Lucian, Menippus, Or Descent Into Hades, 12

nan Well, Minos carefully examined each prisoner, and sent him off to the place of the wicked to receive punishment proportionate to his transgressions. He was especially severe upon those who, puffed up with wealth and authority, were expecting an almost reverential treatment; he could not away with their ephemeral presumption and superciliousness, their failure to realize the mortality of themselves and their fortunes. Stripped of all that made them glorious, of wealth and birth and power, there they stood naked and downcast, reconstructing their worldly blessedness in their minds like a dream that is gone; the spectacle was meat and drink to me; any that I knew by sight I would come quietly up to, and remind him of his state up here; what a spirit had his been, when morning crowds lined his hall, expectant of his coming, being jostled or thrust out by lacqueys! at last my lord Sun would dawn upon them, in purple or gold or rainbow hues, not unconscious of the bliss he shed upon those who approached, if he let them kiss his breast or his hand. These reminders seemed to annoy them.

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agrikolaos/agricola	Mitchell and Pilhofer (2019) 65
anysius	Mitchell and Pilhofer (2019) 65
ariston	Mitchell and Pilhofer (2019) 65
armenia minor/prima	Mitchell and Pilhofer (2019) 65
athenogenes of pedachthoe	Mitchell and Pilhofer (2019) 65
eustratius/kyrisikes of arauraka	Mitchell and Pilhofer (2019) 65
hilarius pyrrhachas	Mitchell and Pilhofer (2019) 65
libellus	Mitchell and Pilhofer (2019) 65
martyrdom	Mitchell and Pilhofer (2019) 65
offices (state),governor (provincial)	Mitchell and Pilhofer (2019) 65
offices (state),quaestor sacri palatii	Mitchell and Pilhofer (2019) 65
paganism	Mitchell and Pilhofer (2019) 65
sanctuary (pagan),destruction of'	Mitchell and Pilhofer (2019) 65
sebaste(a)/megalopolis (sivas)	Mitchell and Pilhofer (2019) 65
severianus	Mitchell and Pilhofer (2019) 65