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τὸ δὴ ἄνθρωπον οὖσαν Ἀφροδίτῃ καὶ Ἥρᾳ εἰκάσαι τί ἄλλο ἢ ἄντικρύς ἐστιν εὐτελίζειν τὰς
θεὰς ; ἐν γὰρ τοῖς τοιούτοις οὐχ οὕτω τὸ μικρὸν
μεῖζον γίγνεται τῇ παραθέσει, ὡς τὸ μεῖζον
ἀπομικρύνεται πρὸς τὸ ταπεινότερον κατασπώμενον: οἷον εἴ τινες ἅμα βαδίζοιεν, ὁ μὲν μέγιστος, ὁ
δὲ πάνυ τῇ ἡλικίᾳ χαμαίζηλος, εἶτα δεήσειεν ἀπισῶσαι αὐτοὺς ὡς μὴ ὑπερέχειν θατέρου τὸν
ἕτερον, οὐ τοῦ βραχυτέρου ὑπερανατεινομένου
τοῦτο γένοιτ᾽ ἄν, κἂν ὅτι μάλιστα ἀκροποδητὶ
ἐπεγείρῃ ἑαυτόν: ἀλλ᾽ εἰ μέλλουσιν ὁμήλικες
φανεῖσθαι, ὁ μείζων ἐκεῖνος ἐπικύψει καὶ
ταπεινότερον ἀποφανεῖ ἑαυτόν. ὡσαύτως δὲ καὶ ἐν ταῖς τοιαύταις εἰκόσιν οὐχ οὕτως ἄνθρωπος
[p. 310] μείζων γίγνεται, ἤν τις αὐτὸν θεῷ ἀπεικάζῃ, ὡς.
τὸ θεῖον ἀνάγκη ἐλαττοῦσθαι πρὸς τὸ ἐνδέον
ἐπικλώμενον. καὶ γὰρ εἰ μὲν ὑπὸ ἀπορίας τῶν ἐπιγείων ἐπὶ τὰ οὐράνια ἐκτείνοι τις τὸν λόγον, ἧττον ἂν ὁ τοιοῦτος αἰτίαν ἔχοι ὑπὸ ἀσεβείας
αὐτὸ δρᾶν σὺ δὲ τοσαῦτα ἔχων κάλλη γυναικῶν
Ἀφροδίτῃ καὶ Ἥρᾳ εἰκάσαι αὐτὴν ἐτόλμησας
οὐδὲν δέον.
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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