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 IV OXFORD AT THE CLARENDON PRESS 1905 HENRY FROWDE, M.A. PUBLISHER TO THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD LONDON, EDINBURGH NEW YORK AND TORONTO CONTENTS OF VOL. IV PAGE SLANDER, A WARNING 1 #Peri tou mê rhadiôs pisteuein diabolê.# THE HALL 12 #Peri tou oikou.# PATRIOTISM 23 #Patridos enkômion.# DIPSAS, THE THIRST-SNAKE 26 #Peri tôn dipsadôn.# A WORD WITH HESIOD 30 #Dialexis pros Hêsiodon.# THE SHIP: OR, THE WISHES 33 #Ploion ê euchai.# DIALOGUES OF THE HETAERAE 52-78 #Hetairikoi dialogoi.# I, 52; II, 53; III, 55; IV, 57; VII, 60; VIII, 62; IX, 64; XI, 67; XII, 69; XIII, 72; XIV, 75; XV, 77. THE DEATH OF PEREGRINE 79 #Peri tês Peregrinou teleutês.# THE RUNAWAYS 95 #Drapetai.# SATURNALIA 108 #Ta pros Kronon.# CRONOSOLON 113 #Kronosolôn.# SATURNALIAN LETTERS, I 117 #Epistolai Kronikai, a.# SATURNALIAN LETTERS, II 120 #Epistolai Kronikai, b.# SATURNALIAN LETTERS, III 123 #Epistolai Kronikai, g.# SATURNALIAN LETTERS, IV 126 #Epistolai Kronikai, d.# A FEAST OF LAPITHAE 127 #Symposion ê Lapithai.# DEMOSTHENES, AN ENCOMIUM 145 #Dêmosthenous enkômion.#