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[4] ἀλλὰ θαρρεῖν χρὴ καὶ θυμὸν ἔχειν ἀγαθὸν ἐς τὸ τέλος τῆς ὁδοῦ ὁρῶντα καὶ τὴν ἄνω εὐδαιμονίαν, καὶ μάλιστα ἐκείνου ξυμπροθυμουμένου. πλὴν ἀλλὰ τίνα σοι ἐλπίδα ὑποφαίνει ὡς δὴ πότε ἀναβησομένῳ; ἐς νέωτα εἴκαζεν ἐπὶ τὸ ἄκρον ἔσεσθαί σε, οἷον μετὰ τὰ μυστήρια ἢ τὰ ἄλλα Παναθήναια;

Ἑρμότιμος
ὀλίγον φής, ὦ Λυκῖνε.

Λυκῖνος
ἀλλ᾽ ἐς τὴν ἑξῆς ὀλυμπιάδα;

Ἑρμότιμος
καὶ τοῦτο ὀλίγον ὡς πρὸς ἀρετῆς ἄσκησιν καὶ εὐδαιμονίας κτῆσιν.

Λυκῖνος
μετὰ δύο μὲν δὴ ὀλυμπιάδας πάντως: ἢ πολλήν γ᾽ ἂν ὑμῶν ῥᾳθυμίαν καταγνοίη τις, εἰ μηδ᾽ ἐν τοσούτῳ χρόνῳ δύνασθε, ὅσον τρὶς ἀπὸ Ἡρακλείων στηλῶν εἰς Ἰνδοὺς ἀπελθεῖν, εἶτ᾽ ἐπανελθεῖν ῥᾴδιον, εἰ καὶ μὴ εὐθεῖαν μηδ᾽ ἀεὶ βαδίζοι τις, ἀλλ᾽ ἐν τοῖς διὰ μέσου [p. 337] ἔθνεσι περιπλανώμενος. καίτοι πόσῳ τινὶ βούλει ὑψηλοτέραν καὶ λισσοτέρον θῶμεν εἶναι τὴν ἄκραν, ἐφ᾽ ἧς ὑμῖν ἡ Ἀρετὴ οἰκεῖ, τῆς Ἀόρνου ἐκείνης, ἣν ἐντὸς ὀλίγων ἡμερῶν Ἀλέξανδρος κατὰ κράτος εἷλεν;

Ἑρμότιμος

Luciani Samosatensis Opera, Vol I. Lucian. Karl Jacobitz. in aedibus B. G. Teubneri. Leipzig. 1896. Keyboarding.

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