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ἕν με πνίγει μάλιστα, ὦ Κλωθοῖ, δι᾽ ὅπερ ἐπόθουν κἂν πρὸς ὀλίγον ἐς τὸ φῶς ἀνακῦψαι πάλιν.
Κλωθώ
τι δὲ τοῦτό ἐστιν; ἔοικε γάρ τι παμμέγεθες
εἶναι.
Μεγαπένθης
Καρίων ὁ ἐμὸς οἰκέτης ἐπεὶ τάχιστά με ἀποθανόντα εἶδε, περὶ δείλην ὀψίαν ἀνελθὼν εἰς τὸ οἴκημα ἔνθα ἐκείμην, σχολῆς οὔσης — οὐδεὶς γὰρ
οὐδὲ ἐφύλαττέ με — Γλυκέριον τὴν παλλάκιδα
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μου — καὶ πάλαι δέ, οἶμαι, κεκοινωνήκεσαν — παραγαγὼν ἐπισπασάμενος τὴν θύραν ἐσπόδει καθάπερ οὐδενὸς ἔνδον παρόντος: εἶτ᾽ ἐπειδὴ ἅλις
εἶχε τῆς ἐπιθυμίας, ἀποβλέψας εἰς ἐμέ, ‘σύ μέντοι,’ φησίν, ‘ὦ μιαρὸν ἀνθρώπιον, πληγάς μοι πολλάκις οὐδὲν ἀδικοῦντι ἐνέτεινας:’ καὶ ταῦθ᾽ ἅμα λέγων παρέτιλλὲ τέ με καὶ κατὰ κόρρης ἔπαιε, τέλος δὲ πλατὺ χρεμψάμενος καταπτύσας μου καί, ‘ εἰς τὸν Ἀσεβῶν χῶρον ἄπιθι,’ ἐπειπὼν ᾤχετο: ἐγὼ δὲ ἐνεπιμπράμην μέν, οὐκ
εἶχον δὲ ὅμως ὅ τι καὶ δράσαιμι αὐτὸν αὖος ἤδη καὶ ψυχρὸς ὤν. καὶ ἡ μιαρὰ δὲ παιδίσκη ἐπεὶ ψόφου προσιόντων τινῶν ᾔσθετο, σιέλῳ χρίσασα τοὺς ὀφθαλμοὺς ὡς δακρύσασα ἐπ᾽ ἐμοί,
κωκύουσα καὶ τοὔνομα ἐπικαλουμένη ἀπηλλάττετο.
ὧν εἰ λαβοίμην —
Κλωθώ
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Lucian. Works. with an English Translation by. A. M. Harmon. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1915. 2.
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