τοῖα παθόντ᾽, οἶμαι, καὶ Τάνταλον αἴθοπος ἰοῦἔτι καὶ ἄλλα ἔπη τέτταρά ἐστι περὶ τῶν ᾠῶν, καὶ ὡς ἀναιρούμενος αὐτὰ ἐδήχθη: ἀλλ᾽ οὐκέτι μέμνημαι ἐκείνων.
μηδαμὰ κοιμῆσαι διψαλέην ὀδύνην.
καὶ Δαναοῖο κόρας τοῖον πίθον οὐκ ἀναπλῆσαι
αἰὲν ἐπαντλούσας ὑδροφόρῳ καμάτῳ.
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ἐγὼ μὲν οὖν οὐδένα τοῦτο πεπονθότα εἶδον,
μηδέ, ὦ θεοί, ἴδοιμι οὕτω κολαζόμενον ἄνθρωπον, ἀλλ᾽
οὐδὲ ἐπέβην τῆς Λιβύης τὸ παράπαν εὖ ποιῶν: ἐπίγραμμα
δέ τι ἤκουσα, ὅ μοι τῶν ἑταίρων τις ἔλεγεν αὐτος
ἐπὶ στήλης ἀνεγνωκέναι ἀνδρὸς οὕτως ἀποθανόντος: ἐκ
Λιβυης ἔφη ἀπιὼν ἐς Αἴγυπτον παρὰ τὴν μεγάλην Σύρτιν
ποιεῖσθαι τὴν πορείαν: οὐ γὰρ εἶναι ἄλλως: ἔνθα
δὴ ταφῳ ἐντυχεῖν παρὰ τὴν ἠϊόνα ἐπ᾽ αὐτῷ τῷ κλύσματι
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καὶ στήλην ἐφεστάναι δηλοῦσαν τοῦ ὀλέθρου τὸν τρόπον:
κεκολάφθαι γὰρ ἐπ᾽ αὐτῇ ἄνθρωπον μὲν τινα οἷον
τὸν Τάνταλον γράφουσιν ἐν λίμνῃ ἑστῶτα καὶ ἀρυομενον
τοῦ ὕδατος, ὡς πίοι δή, τὸ θηρίον δὲ τὴν διψάδα
ἐμπεφυκὸς αὐτῷ περιεσπειρᾶσθαι τῷ ποδί, καί τινας γυναῖκας
ὑδροφορούσας ἅμα πολλὰς καταχεῖν τὸ ὕδωρ αὐτοῦ
πλησίον δὲ ᾠὰ κεῖσθαι οἷα τῶν στρουθῶν ἐκείνων,
οὓς ἔφην θηρᾶν τοὺς Γαράμαντας: γεγράφθαι δὲ πρὸς
τοὐπίγραμμα, οὐ χεῖρον δὲ καὶ αὐτὸ εἰπεῖν,
Luciani Samosatensis Opera, Vol III. Lucian. Karl Jacobitz. in aedibus B. G. Teubneri. Leipzig. 1896. Keyboarding.
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