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καὶ .δὴ οὐ πρὸ πολλοῦ κατ᾽ ἄλλο μέν τι χρέος,
ἧκον δὲ ὅμως ἐς τὰ χωρία ἐκεῖνα, καὶ — ἔδει γὰρ ἀναπλεῖν κατὰ τὸν Ἠριδανόν — οὔτ᾽ αἰγείρους
εἶδον πάνυ περισκοπῶν οὔτε τὸ ἤλεκτρον, ἀλλ᾽
οὐδὲ τοὔνομα τοῦ Φαέθοντος ᾔδεσαν οἱ ἐπιχώριοι. ἀναζητοῦντος γοῦν ἐμοῦ καὶ διαπυνθανομένου, πότε δὴ ἐπὶ τὰς αἰγείρους ἀφιξόμεθα τὰς τὸ ἤλεκτρον, ἐγέλων οἱ ναῦται καὶ ἠξίουν
σαφέστερον λέγειν ὅ τι καὶ θέλοιμι: κἀγὼ τὸν μῦθον διηγούμην αὐτοῖς, Φαέθοντα γενέσθαι Ἡλίου παῖδα, καὶ τοῦτον ἐς ἡλικίαν ἐλθόντα αἰτῆσαι παρὰ τοῦ πατρὸς ἐλάσαι τὸ ἅρμα, ὡς ποιήσειε καὶ
αὐτὸς μίαν ἡμέραν, τὸν δὲ δοῦναι, τὸν δὲ ἀπολέσθαι ἐκδιφρευθέντα, καὶ τὰς ἀδελφὰς αὐτοῦ
[p. 76] πενθούσας ἐνταῦθά που, ἔφην, παρ᾽ ὑμῖν, ἵναπερ καὶ κατέπεσεν, ἐπὶ τῷ Ἠριδανῷ, αἰγείρους γενέσθαι καὶ δακρύειν ἔτι ἐπ᾽ αὐτῷ τὸ ἤλεκτρον,
Lucian. Works. with an English Translation by. A. M. Harmon. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1913. 1.
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