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‘ εἶτα δειπνήσομεν,’ ἦ δ᾽ ὃς ὁ Καλλικλῆς, ‘εἶτα τὸ δειλινὸν περιδινησόμεθα ἐν Λυκείῳ, νῦν δ᾽ ἤδη καιρός ἐστιν χρίεσθαι τὸ ἡλιοκαὲς καὶ πρὸς τὴν εἵλην θέρεσθαι καὶ λουσαμένους ἀρτοσιτεῖν: καὶ ἤδη γε ἀπιτητέα. σὺ δέ, ὦ παῖ, στλεγγίδα μοι καὶ βύρσαν καὶ φωσώνια καὶ ῥύμματα
ναυστολεῖν ἐς τὸ βαλανεῖον καὶ τοὐπίλουτρον κομίζειν: ἔχεις δὲ χαμᾶζε παρὰ τὴν ἐγγυοθήκην δύ᾽ ὀβολώ. σὺ δὲ τί καὶ πράξεις, ὦ Λεξίφανες,
ἥξεις ἢ ἐλινύσεις ἔτι αὐτόθι ;’
‘κἀγώ,’ ἦν δὲ ἐγώ, ‘ τρίπαλαι λουτιῶ: οὐκ εὐπόρως τε γὰρ ἔχω καὶ τὰ ἀμφὶ τὴν τράμιν μαλακίζομαι ἐπ᾽ ἀστράβης ὀχηθείς. ὁ γὰρ ἀστραβηλάτης ἐπέσπερχεν καίτοι ἀσκωλιάζων αὐτός. ἀλλὰ καὶ ἐν αὐτῷ οὐκ ἀκμὴς ἦν τῷ ἀγρῷ κατέλαβον γὰρ τοὺς ἐργάτας λιγυρίζοντας τὴν θερινὴν
ᾠδήν, τοὺς δὲ τάφον τῷ ἐμῷ πατρὶ
κατασκευάζοντας. συντυμβωρυχήσας οὖν αὐτοῖς καὶ τοῖς ἀναχοῦσιν τὰ ἄνδηρα καὶ αὐτὸς ὀλίγα συγχειροπονήσας ἐκείνους μὲν διαφῆκα τοῦ τε κρύους ἕνεκα καὶ ὅτι καύματα ἦν οἶσθα δ᾽ ὡς ἐν κρύει σφοδρῷ γίνεται τὰ καύματα. ἐγὼ δὲ περιελθὼν τὰ ἀρώματα
σκόροδά τε εὗρον ἐν αὐτοῖς πεφυκότα καὶ γηπαττάλους τινὰς ἀνορύξας καὶ τῶν σκανδίκων καὶ βρακάνων λαχανευσάμενος, ἔτι δὲ κάχρυς πριάμενος — οὔπω δ᾽ οἱ λειμῶνες ἀνθοσμίαι ἦσαν,
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ὡς αὐτοποδητὶ βαδίζειν — ἀνατεθεὶς ἐπὶ τὴν ἀστράβην ἐδάρην τὸν ὄρρον καὶ νῦν βαδίζω τε ὀδυνηρῶς
καὶ ἰδίω θαμὰ καὶ μαλακιῶ τὸ σῶμα καὶ δέομαι διανεῦσαι ἐν τῷ ὕδατι ἐπὶ πλεῖστον: χαίρω δὲ
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Lucian. Works. with an English Translation by. A. M. Harmon. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1936. 5.
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