[37]
ὢ τῆς τύχης: ἐπ᾽ ἐμὲ γὰρ οἱ ἱππεῖς ἅπαντες
καὶ μόνος ἐπιτήδειος αὐτοῖς ἔδοξα ἐπελαύνεσθαι. καί
μοι δοκῶ, ἢν βιάζωνται, αὐτομολήσειν προσδραμὼν ἐς
τὴν παλαίστραν ἔτι πολεμοῦντας ὑμᾶς καταλιπών.
Σάμιππος
μηδαμῶς: κρατεῖς γὰρ αὐτῶν καὶ σὺ ἤδη τὸ
μέρος. ἐγὼ δέ, ὡς ὁρᾷς, καὶ μονομαχήσω πρὸς τὸν βασιλέα:
προκαλεῖται γάρ με καὶ ἀναδῦναι πάντως αἰσχρόν.
Λυκῖνος
νὴ Δία καὶ τετρώσῃ αὐτίκα μάλα πρὸς αὐτοῦ:
βασιλικὸν γὰρ καὶ τὸ τρωθῆναι περὶ τῆς ἀρχῆς μαχόμενον.
Σάμιππος
εὖ λέγεις. ἐπιπόλαιον μέν μοι τὸ τραῦμα καὶ
οὐκ εἰς τὰ φανερὰ τοῦ σώματος, ὡς μηδὲ τὴν οὐλὴν ὕστερον
ἄμορφον γενέσθαι. πλὴν ἀλλὰ ὁρᾷς ὅπως ἐπελάσας
μιᾷ πληγῇ αὐτόν τε καὶ τὸν ἵππον διέπειρα τὴν λόγχην
ἀφείς, εἶτα τὴν κεφαλὴν ἀποτεμὼν καὶ ἀφελὼν τὸ διάδημα
βασιλεὺς ἤδη γέγονα προσκυνούμενος ὑφ᾽ ἁπάντων;
[p. 230]
This text is part of:
Table of Contents:
Click on a word to bring up parses, dictionary entries, and frequency statistics
Luciani Samosatensis Opera, Vol III. Lucian. Karl Jacobitz. in aedibus B. G. Teubneri. Leipzig. 1896. Keyboarding.
Google Digital Humanities Awards Program provided support for entering this text.
This work is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.
An XML version of this text is available for download, with the additional restriction that you offer Perseus any modifications you make. Perseus provides credit for all accepted changes, storing new additions in a versioning system.