Produced by Robert Nield, Juliet Sutherland, Charles Franks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. THE WORKS OF LUCIAN OF SAMOSATA Complete with exceptions specified in the preface TRANSLATED BY H. W. FOWLER AND F. G. FOWLER IN FOUR VOLUMES What work nobler than transplanting foreign thought into the barren domestic soil? except indeed planting thought of your own, which the fewest are privileged to do.--_Sartor Resartus_. At each flaw, be this your first thought: the author doubtless said something quite different, and much more to the point. And then you may hiss _me_ off, if you will.--LUCIAN, _Nigrinus_, 9. (LUCIAN) The last great master of Attic eloquence and Attic wit.--_Lord Macaulay_. VOLUME II CONTENTS OF VOL. II THE DEPENDENT SCHOLAR APOLOGY FOR 'THE DEPENDENT SCHOLAR' A SLIP OF THE TONGUE IN SALUTATION HERMOTIMUS, OR THE RIVAL PHILOSOPHIES HERODOTUS AND AETION ZEUXIS AND ANTIOCHUS HARMONIDES THE SCYTHIAN THE WAY TO WRITE HISTORY THE TRUE HISTORY THE TYRANNICIDE THE DISINHERITED PHALARIS, I PHALARIS, II ALEXANDER THE ORACLE-MONGER OF PANTOMIME LEXIPHANES THE DEPENDENT SCHOLAR The dependent scholar! The great man's licensed friend!--if friend, not slave, is to be the word. Believe me, Timocles, amid the humiliation and drudgery of his lot, I know not where to turn for a beginning. Many, if not most, of his hardships are familiar to me; not, heaven knows, from personal experience, for I have never been reduced to such extremity, and pray that I never may be; but from the lips of numerous victims; from the bitter outcries of those who were yet in the snare, and the complacent recollections of others who, like escaped prisoners, found a pleasure in detailing all that they had been through. The evidence of the latter was particularly valuable. Mystics, as it were, of the highest grade, Dependency had no secrets for them. Accordingly, it was with keen interest that I listened to their stories of miraculous deliverance from moral shipwreck. They reminded me of the mariners who, duly cropped, gather at the doors of a temple, with their tale of stormy seas and monster waves and promontories, castings out of cargoes, snappings of masts, shatterings of rudders; ending with the appearance of those twin brethren [Footnote: The Dioscuri, Castor and Pollux, who were supposed to appear to sailors in distress.] so indispensable to nautical story, or of some other _deus ex machina_, who, seated at the masthead or standing at the helm, guides the vessel to some sandy shore, there to break up at her leisure--not before her crew (so benevolent is the God!) have effected a safe landing. The mariner, however, is liberal in embellishment, being prompted thereto by the exigencies of his situation; for by his appearance as a favourite of heaven, not merely a victim of fortune, the number of the charitable is increased. It is otherwise with those whose narrative is of domestic storms, of billows rising mountain