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[59] ὡς ὀλισθηρὸς εἶ, ὦ Ἑρμότιμε, καὶ διαδιδράσκεις ἐκ τῶν χειρῶν. πλὴν ἀλλ᾽ ὤνησάς γε: οἰόμενος γὰρ ἐκπεφευγέναι ἐς τὸν αὐτὸν κύρτον ἐμπέπτωκας.

Ἑρμότιμος
πῶς τοῦτ᾽ ἔφης;

Λυκῖνος
ὅτι αὐθομολογούμενον πρᾶγμα λαβὼν καὶ γνώριμον ἅπασι τὸν οἶνον εἰκάζεις αὐτῷ τὰ ἀνομοιότατα [p. 373] καὶ περὶ ὧν ἀμφισβητοῦσιν ἅπαντες ἀφανῶν ὄντων. ὥστε ἔγωγε οὐκ ἔχω εἰπεῖν καθ᾽ ὅ τι σοι ὅμοιος φιλοσοφία καὶ οἶνος, εἰ μὴ ἄρα κατὰ τοῦτο μόνον, ὅτι καὶ οἱ φιλόσοφοι ἀποδίδονται τὰ μαθήματα ὥσπερ οἱ κάπηλοι, κερασάμενοί γε οἱ πολλοὶ καὶ δολώσαντες καὶ κακομετροῦντες. οὑτωσὶ δὲ ἐπισκοπήσωμεν ὅ τι καὶ λέγεις: τὸν οἶνον φὴς τὸν ἐν τῷ πίθῳ ὅλον αὐτὸν αὑτῷ ὅμοιον εἶναι, καὶ μὰ Δί᾽ οὐδὲν ἄτοπον: ἀλλὰ καὶ εἴ τις γεύσαιτο ἀρυσάμενος ὀλίγον ὅσον αὐτοῦ, εἴσεσθαι αὐτίκα ὁποῖος ἅπας ὁ πίθος ἐστίν, ἀκόλουθον καὶ τοῦτο, καὶ οὐδὲν ἂν ἔγωγέ τι ἀντεῖ πον. ὅρα δὴ καὶ τὸ μετὰ τοῦτο: φιλοσοφία καὶ οἱ φιλοσοφοῦντες οἷον ὁ διδάσκαλος ὁ σός, ἆρα ταὐτὰ πρὸς ὑμᾶς λέγει ὁσημέραι καὶ περὶ τῶν αὐτῶν, ἢ ἄλλα ἄλλοτε; πολλὰ γάρ ἐστι, πρόδηλον, ὦ ἑταῖρε: ἢ οὐκ ἂν εἴκοσιν ἔτη παρέμενες αὐτῷ κατὰ τὸν Ὀδυσσέα περινοστῶν καὶ περιπλανώμενος, εἰ τὰ αὐτὰ ἔλεγεν, ἀλλ᾽ ἀπέχρη ἄν σοι καὶ ἅπαξ ἀκούσαντι.

Ἑρμότιμος

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

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