THE WORKS OF LUCIAN OF SAMOSATA Complete with exceptions specified in the preface TRANSLATED BY H. W. FOWLER AND F. G. FOWLER VOLUME III OF 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_. CONTENTS OF VOL. III LIFE OF DEMONAX A PORTRAIT-STUDY DEFENCE OF THE ‘PORTRAIT-STUDY’ TOXARIS: A DIALOGUE OF FRIENDSHIP ZEUS CROSS-EXAMINED ZEUS TRAGOEDUS THE COCK ICAROMENIPPUS, AN AERIAL EXPEDITION THE DOUBLE INDICTMENT THE PARASITE, A DEMONSTRATION THAT SPONGING IS A PROFESSION ANACHARSIS, A DISCUSSION OF PHYSICAL TRAINING OF MOURNING THE RHETORICIAN’S VADE MECUM THE LIAR DIONYSUS, AN INTRODUCTORY LECTURE HERACLES, AN INTRODUCTORY LECTURE SWANS AND AMBER THE FLY, AN APPRECIATION REMARKS ADDRESSED TO AN ILLITERATE BOOK-FANCIER ALPHABETICAL TABLE OF CONTENTS LIFE OF DEMONAX It was in the book of Fate that even this age of ours should not be destitute entirely of noteworthy and memorable men, but produce a body of extraordinary power, and a mind of surpassing wisdom. My allusions are to Sostratus the Boeotian, whom the Greeks called, and believed to be, Heracles; and more particularly to the philosopher Demonax. I saw and marvelled at both of them, and with the latter I long consorted. I have written of Sostratus elsewhere [Footnote: The life of Sostratus is not extant.], and described his stature and enormous strength, his open-air life on Parnassus, sleeping on the grass and eating what the mountain afforded, the exploits that bore out his surname—robbers exterminated, rough places made smooth, and deep waters bridged. This time I am to write of Demonax, with two sufficient ends in view: first, to keep his memory green among good men, as far as in me lies; and secondly, to provide the most earnest of our rising generation, who aspire to philosophy, with a contemporary pattern, that they may not be forced back upon the ancients for worthy models, but imitate this best—if I am any judge—of all philosophers.