This text is part of:
Search the Perseus Catalog for:
Table of Contents:
Click on a word to bring up parses, dictionary entries, and frequency statistics
‘
[59]
’ Ταῦτα εἶπε, καὶ πονηρῶς τὸ μεταξὺ ἀποζήσαντες, ἐνστάσης ἤδη τῆς θέας ἐθεώμεθα καὶ
αὐτοί παραλαβὼν γάρ με ὡς ἐπὶ τερπνόν τι καὶ παράδοξον θέαμα τῶν Ἑλληνικῶν ἄγει εἰς τὸ θέατρον. καὶ καθίσαντες ἑωρῶμεν τό μὲν πρῶτον θηρία κατακοντιζόμενα καὶ ὑπὸ κυνῶν διωκόμενα καὶ ἐπ᾽ ἀνθρώπους δεδεμένους ἀφιέμενα, κακούργους τινάς, ὡς εἰκάζομεν. ἐπεὶ δὲ εἰσῆλθον οἱ μονομάχοι καί τινα παραγαγὼν ὁ κῆρυξ εὐμεγέθη νεανίσκον εἶπεν, ὅστις ἂν ἐθέλῃ τούτῳ μονομαχῆσαι, ἥκειν εἰς τό μέσον δραχμὰς ληψόμενον μυρίας μισθὸν τῆς μάχης, ἐνταῦθα ἐξανίσταται ὁ Σισίννης καὶ καταπηδήσας ὑπέστη μαχεῖσθαι καὶ
τὰ ὅπλα ᾔτει, καὶ τὸν μισθὸν λαβών, τὰς μυρίας ἐμοὶ φέρων ἐνεχείρισε, καὶ ‘εἰ μὲν κρατήσαιμι,
ὦ Τόξαρι,’ εἶπεν, ‘ἅμα ἄπιμεν ἔχοντες τὰ ἀρκοῦντα, ἢν δὲ πέσω, θάψας με ὑποχώρει ὀπίσω
ἐς Σκύθας.’
Lucian. Works. with an English Translation by. A. M. Harmon. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1936. 5.
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.