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ἐθέλω δέ σοι καὶ διάλογον διηγήσασθαι τοῦ Γλύκωνος καὶ Σακερδῶτός τινος, Τιανοῦ ἀνθρώπου: ὁποίου τινὸς τὴν σύνεσιν, εἴσῃ ἀπὸ τῶν ἐρωτήσεων. ἀνέγνων δὲ αὐτὸν χρυσοῖς γράμμασιν γεγραμμένον ἐν Τίῳ, ἐν τῇ τοῦ Σακερδῶτος
οἰκίᾳ. ‘ εἰπὲ γάρ μοι,’ ἔφη, ‘ὦ δέσποτα Γλύκων, τίς εἶ ;’
‘ἐγώ,’ ἦ δ᾽ ὅς, ‘ Ἀσκληπιὸς νέος.’
‘ἄλλος παρ᾽ ἐκεῖνον τὸν πρότερον ; πῶς λέγεις;’
‘οὐ θέμις ἀκοῦσαί σε τοῦτό γε.’
‘πόσα δὲ ἡμῖν ἔτη παραμενεῖς χρησμῳδῶν;’
‘ τρίτον πρὸς τοῖς χιλίοις.’
‘εἶτα ποῖ μεταστήσῃ ; ἐς’
‘ Βάκτρα καὶ τὴν ἐκεῖ γῆν δεῖ γὰρ
ἀπολαῦσαι καὶ τοὺς βαρβάρους τῆς ἐπιδημίας
[p. 230] τῆς ἐμῆς.’
‘ τὰ δ᾽ ἄλλα χρηστήρια, τὸ ἐν Διδύμοις καὶ τὸ ἐν Κλάρῳ καὶ τὸ ἐν Δελφοῖς, ἔχουσι τὸν πατέρα τὸν Ἀπόλλω χρησμῳδοῦντα,
ἢ ψευδεῖς εἰσιν οἱ νῦν ἐκπίπτοντες ἐκεῖ χρησμοί;’
‘ μηδὲ τοῦτο ἐθελήσῃς εἰδέναι: οὐ γὰρ θέμις.’
‘ ἐγὼ δὲ τίς ἔσομαι μετὰ τὸν νῦν βίον;’
‘ κάμηλος, εἶτα ἵππος, εἶτ᾽ ἀνὴρ σοφὸς καὶ προφήτης οὐ μείων Ἀλεξάνδρου.’ Τοιαῦτα μὲν ὁ Γλύκων τῷ Σακερδῶτι διελέχθη. ἐπὶ τέλει δὲ χρησμὸν ἔμμετρον ἐφθέγξατο, εἰδὼς αὐτὸν Λεπίδῳ ἑταῖρον ὄντα
Μὴ πείθου Λεπίδῳ, ἐπεὶ ἦ λυγρὸς οἶτος ὀπηδεῖ. πάνυ γὰρ ἐδεδίει τὸν Ἐπίκουρον, ὡς προεῖπον, ὥς τινα ἀντίτεχνον καὶ ἀντισοφιστὴν τῆς μαγγανείας
αὐτοῦ.
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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