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πλὴν τό γε τοσοῦτον ἐπήκουσα: ἔφη γὰρ βούλεσθαι χρυσῷ βίῳ χρυσῆν κορώνην ἐπιθεῖναι: χρῆναι γάρ τὸν Ἡρακλείως βεβιωκότα Ἡρακλείως ἀποθανεῖν καὶ ἀναμιχθῆναι τῷ αἰθέρι. ‘ καὶ ὠφελῆσαι,’ ἔφη ‘ βούλομαι τοὺς ἀνθρώπους
[p. 38] δείξας αὐτοῖς ὃν χρὴ τρόπον θανάτου καταφρονεῖν: πάντας οὖν δεῖ μοι τοὺς ἀνθρώπους Φιλοκτήτας γενέσθαι.’ οἱ μὲν οὖν ἀνοητότεροι τῶν ἀνθρώπων ἐδάκρυον καὶ ἐβόων ‘σώζου τοῖς Ἕλλησιν,’ οἱ δὲ ἀνδρωδέστεροι ἐκεκράγεσαν ‘ τέλει τὰ δεδογμένα,’ ὑφ᾽ ὧν ὁ πρεσβύτης οὐ μετρίως ἐθορυβήθη ἐλπίζων πάντας ἕξεσθαι αὐτοῦ καὶ
μὴ προήσεσθαι τῷ πυρί, ἀλλὰ ἄκοντα δὴ καθέξειν ἐν τῷ βίῳ. τὸ δὲ ‘ τέλει ^ τὰ δεδογμένα’ πάνυ ἀδόκητον αὐτῷ προσπεσὸν ὠχριᾶν ἔτι μᾶλλον ἐποίησεν, καίτοι ἤδη νεκρικῶς τὴν χροιὰν ἔχοντι, καὶ νὴ Δία καὶ ὑποτρέμειν, ὥστε κατέπαυσε τὸν λόγον.
Lucian. Works. with an English Translation by. A. M. Harmon. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1936. 5.
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