This text is part of:
Search the Perseus Catalog for:
Click on a word to bring up parses, dictionary entries, and frequency statistics
[11]
ταῦτα μὲν οὖν ὑπὲρ ἐμαυτοῦ ἀπολελόγημαι ὑμῖν, ἀληθῆ καὶ δίκαια καὶ ἐπαίνου μᾶλλον, ὡς ἐμαυτὸν πείθω, ἢ μίσους ἄξια. ὑπὲρ δὲ τοῦ ἀναθήματος καιρὸς ὑμᾶς ἀκοῦσαι ὅθεν καὶ ὅπως τὸν
ταῦρον τοῦτον ἐκτησάμην, οὐκ ἐκδοὺς αὐτὸς τῷ
ἀνδριαντοποιῷ — μὴ γὰρ οὕτω μανείην, ὡς τοιούτων ἐπιθυμῆσαι κτημάτων — ἀλλὰ Περίλαος ἦν τις ἡμεδαπός, χαλκεὺς μὲν ἀγαθός, πονηρὸς δὲ ἄνθρωπος. οὗτος πάμπολυ τῆς ἐμῆς γνώμης
διημαρτηκὼς ᾤετο χαριεῖσθαί μοι, εἰ καινήν τινα
κόλασιν ἐπινοήσειεν, ὡς ἐξ ἅπαντος κολάζειν ἐπιθυμοῦντι. καὶ δὴ κατασκευάσας τὸν βοῦν ἧκέ μοι κομίζων κάλλιστον ἰδεῖν καὶ πρὸς τὸ
ἀκριβέστατον εἰκασμένον: κινήσεως γὰρ αὐτῷ καὶ μυκηθμοῦ ἔδει μόνον πρὸς τὸ καὶ ἔμψυχον εἶναι δοκεῖν.
'ἰδὼν δὲ ἀνέκραγον εὐθύς, ἄξιον τὸ κτῆμα τοῦ Πυθίου, πεμπτέος ὁ ταῦρος τῷ θεῷ. ὁ δὲ Περίλαος
παρεστώς, Τί δ᾽ εἰ μάθοις, ἔφη, τὴν σοφίαν τὴν
ἐν αὐτῷ καὶ τὴν χρείαν ἣν παρέχεται; καὶ ἀνοίξας
ἅμα τὸν ταῦρον κατὰ τὰ νῶτα, Ἤν τινα, ἔφη, κολάζειν ἐθέλῃς, ἐμβιβάσας εἰς τὸ μηχάνημα
τοῦτο καὶ κατακλείσας προστιθέναι μὲν τοὺς
αὐλοὺς τούσδε πρὸς τοὺς μυξωτῆρας τοῦ βοός, πῦρ
δὲ ὑποκαίειν κελεύειν, καὶ ὁ μὲν οἰμώξεται καὶ
βοήσεται ἀλήκτοις ταῖς ὀδύναις ἐχόμενος, ἡ βοὴ
δὲ διὰ τῶν αὐλῶν μέλη σοι ἀποτελέσει οἷα λιγυρώτατα καὶ ἐπαυλήσει θρηνῶδες καὶ μυκήσεται γοερώτατον, ὡς τὸν μὲν κολάζεσθαι, σὲ δὲ τέρπεσθαι μεταξὺ καταυλούμενον,
Lucian. Works. with an English Translation by. A. M. Harmon. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1913. 1.
The National Endowment for the Humanities, Google Digital Humanities Awards Program provided support for entering this text.
This text was converted to electronic form by optical character recognition and has been proofread to a high level of accuracy.
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.