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διελθόντες δὲ καὶ τούτους εἰς τὸ πεδίον εἰσβάλλομεν τὸ Ἀχερούσιον, εὑρίσκομέν τε
αὐτόθι τοὺς ἡμιθέους τε καὶ τὰς ἡρωΐνας καὶ τὸν ἄλλον ὅμιλον τῶν νεκρῶν κατὰ ἔθνη καὶ κατὰ φῦλα διαιτωμένους, τοὺς μὲν παλαιούς τινας καὶ
εὐρωτιῶντας καὶ ὥς φησιν Ὅμηρος, ἀμενηνούς, τοὺς δ᾽ ἔτι νεαλεῖς καὶ συνεστηκότας, καὶ μάλιστα τοὺς Αἰγυπτίους αὐτῶν διὰ τὸ πολυαρκὲς τῆς ταριχείας. τὸ μέντοι διαγιγνώσκειν ἕκαστον οὐ πάνυ τι ἦν ῥᾴδιον ἅπαντες γὰρ ἀτεχνῶς ἀλλήλοις γίγνονται ὅμοιοι τῶν ὀστῶν γεγυμνωμένων. πλὴν ἀλλὰ μόγις τε καὶ διὰ πολλοῦ ἀναθεωροῦντες
αὐτοὺς ἐγιγνώσκομεν. ἔκειντο δ᾽ ἐπ᾽ ἀλλήλοις ἀμαυροὶ καὶ ἄσημοι καὶ οὐδὲν ἔτι τῶν παρ᾽ ἡμῖν καλῶν φυλάττοντες. ἀμέλει πολλῶν ἐν ταὐτῷ σκελετῶν κειμένων καὶ πάντων ὁμοίως φοβερόν τι καὶ διάκενον δεδορκότων καὶ γυμνοὺς τοὺς ὀδόντας
[p. 98] προφαινόντων, ἠπόρουν πρὸς ἐμαυτὸν ᾧτινι διακρίναιμι τὸν Θερσίτην ἀπὸ τοῦ καλοῦ Νιρέως ἢ τὸν μεταίτην Ἶρον ἀπὸ τοῦ Φαιάκων βασιλέως ἢ Πυρρίαν τὸν μάγειρον ἀπὸ τοῦ Ἀγαμέμνονος.
οὐδὲν γὰρ ἔτι τῶν παλαιῶν γνωρισμάτων αὐτοῖς
παρέμενεν, ἀλλ᾽ ὅμοια τὰ ὀστᾶ ἦν, ἄδηλα καὶ
ἀνεπίγραφα καὶ ὑπ᾽ οὐδενὸς ἔτι διακρίνεσθαι δυνάμενα.
Lucian. Works. with an English Translation by. A. M. Harmon. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1925. 4.
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