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τινός, εἴ ποτε γαλήνη εἴη, ἐπικύψασα ἐς τὸ ὕδωρ ἰδὲ
σεαυτὴν οὐδὲν ἄλλο ἢ χρόαν λευκὴν ἀκριβῶς: οὐκ ἐπαινεῖται
δὲ τοῦτο, ἢν μὴ ἐπιπρέπῃ αὐτῷ καὶ τὸ ἐρύθημα.
καὶ μὴν ἐγὼ μὲν ἡ ἀκράτως λευκὴ ὅμως ἐραστὴν
ἔχω κἂν τοῦτον, ὑμῶν δὲ οὐκ ἔστιν ἥντινα ἢ ποιμὴν
ἢ ναύτης ἢ πορθμεὺς ἐπαινεῖ: ὁ δέ γε Πολύφημος
τό τε ἄλλα καὶ μουσικός ἐστι.
4.
Δῶρις
σιώπα, ὦ Γαλάτεια: ἠκούσαμεν αὐτοῦ
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ᾄδοντος ὁπότε ἐκώμασε πρῴην ἐπὶ σέ: Ἀφροδίτη φίλη,
ὄνον ἄν τις ὀγκᾶσθαι ἔδοξε. καὶ αὐτὴ δὲ ἡ πηκτὶς οἵα;
κρανίον ἐλάφου γυμνὸν τῶν σαρκῶν, καὶ τὰ μὲν κέρατα
πήχεις ὥσπερ ἦσαν, ζυγώσας δὲ αὐτὰ καὶ ἐνάψας τὰ νεῦρα,
οὐδὲ κόλλοπι περιστρέψας, ἐμελῴδει ἄμουσόν τι καὶ
ἀπῳδόν, ἄλλο μὲν αὐτὸς βοῶν, ἄλλο δὲ ἡ λύρα ὑπήχει,
ὥστε οὐδὲ κατέχειν τὸν γέλωτα ἐδυνάμεθα ἐπὶ τῷ
ἐρωτικῷ ἐκείνῳ ᾄσματι: ἡ μὲν γὰρ Ἠχὼ οὐδὲ ἀποκρίνεσθαι
αὐτῷ ἤθελεν οὕτω λάλος οὖσα βρυχωμένῳ, ἀλλ᾽
ᾐσχύνετο, εἰ φανείη μιμουμένη τραχεῖαν ᾠδὴν καὶ καταγέλαστον.
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Luciani Samosatensis Opera, Vol I. Lucian. Karl Jacobitz. in aedibus B. G. Teubneri. Leipzig. 1896. Keyboarding.
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