The works of Lucian

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Butri must teli ou sonae of the oracles hich e deli vere to Rutilianus. This Nise senator, askin him ne ab , homi est, aut appotiatior a tutor tollis soni a forme wila, ho a no arrive at an age sit for instruction:

Pythagoras, and the war- describi nibard. The boue uia ortu natet dying a se day aster, he was sed lyra clos horulo excuse the oracle, hicli his event so stati contradicted but Rutilianus, like a good creature, too the defence pon himself, an averred that thegod had prophesile the very thing Whichi appened by thus recommendino tot immodi ving receptor, ut Homer and Pythagoras, ho were dea d, and with whom thelo probabi no was in the hades belo . ore ho myfriend, an iam Alexander, he he had o do illi sucii Rise acres as

hicli the oracle thus replied, Finst thou Achilles eri, and nex Menander, NON Rutilianus, thou mali live o carthone hundred Dur score years, and aster hine sun-beam in the heav ns Hesdied notwith standing, at event years of age of a bilious colic, ithout waitin for the completion of the oracle. I wil teli ou another of his vocat an Mers. Thessam e Rutilianus ashinghimine da whom heriliould marry, e replied in pla in ternas, Wed thoum ornan prunifrom Alexander, And froin the oon -- sor he had spread a repori, it stems, that he had a aughte by the Moon, vilio had falle in love illi im, ascit is her custom to do illi pret tyfellotas, in his 1leein the prudent id mala madem de lay, ut immediatelysent forier, and commen ced a b ridegroo a threestore, avi nisi rst propitiate his mollier-in-law, the oon, illi hole hecatombs, expecting, nodoubi that he mould Monae himself ranked amongst the deities. Whenae had Once go otin in Ital he hecam more bold an confident, seniling sortii his oracles throughout the whole Roman empire, fore Cison.J Alluding to the sto is Endymion. teli ins

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telling plagues, res, and earth quakes in very ity, and at the sanae time promisin his powerfui assistanc against them. ne voca prediction, in particular, he dispersed about concerning the plague, in the folio Ning verse,

The beardi est god Apollo, mali dispelThis pestilentia clodd- This as inscribedis almost very oor, by Way of antidote the event,

however, proved ather contradictory for thos houses e re peculiari un- fortunate, more 3 in in them than in an Others, hereve the verses ereput p. I domo say, this a the cause of thei deallis, ut so it et oui; so the common peOple, depending pol the oracle, ook o care bout thei diei and mann eris living, no Nould the join their own endeavourswith tuo combat the distase, having thos in fallibi inord to fight for them, and weli assured that the 'eardies god, it his daris, ould rive away the pestilenete. He had moreover, et spies ove every partis Rome whomae hos out of his OK accomplices, ho wereri get out of the peopte the question theymeant orassi, and what the were molt inrous of lettin him no alibe reliand that he might be ready illi his an Mers, venae re the sent

for them.

Thusae en on in Ital and no heaegan to institute certain mysteries, with sacre rites, priests, torches, an a festiva for three days the first, it was given ut, s at Athens, in this form,- Dan wiched person, Christian or Epicurean approaches t pry into the mysteries, et him heexpelled, ut et the ait hi belleversae initiated with propitious mens: the began the scrutiny, and rst the cried, inrua with the Christians,' and the whole multitude subjoined Away with the Epicureans; V then Nas presente the child-birth o Latona, the nativit of Apollo, the nuptialso Coronis, and the birili os sculapius and o the ex da the wonderm productio of the o Glycon O the thir came the marriage of Podalirius, illi Alexander' mollier that da was called the madae, henthe lit ali the orches and lasti ait was the representatio of the loves of Alexander and the oon, it the birthis Rutilianus's iis, here in Alexander led the procession, illi a torch in his hand like another Endymion laying assee in themiddie of the oom, hilst a beautila creature, hola

Dadae. From δαδας, orche.. nam e

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na me a Rutilia, the wife of One belongin to Caesar' hou se hold, personating the Moon, came do i ho in the ciet in g, as i jus descended stombeaven, and in the face of the poor humand mos cordialty embra ced the prophet for the were known tot fondis ach ther , and is it ad notbeen or the number of torches, might proba bl have been stili more fami lia withaim a litile hil after he came in again illi great pomp, clad assigh-pri est, and command in siileiace, cri ed ut Hai Glyco, an at thesim time sonae fellows frona Paphlagonia, illi cloute moes, who unkhorribi os artich, afte the Eumolpidae an Ceryces, an roared ut, Hai Alexanderi In the mystic ances by torch light he ould frequently, and on pur- pose, me his nahe thigh, hici appeared like gold, and whicli, probab ly, he had contrived by means o sonae hin ut ove it that was gilded, and by helpi the light shone very bright a dispute rose ne a upon this be- twee two sage philosophers, hether Alexander ad no the seu of Pythagoras, as elicis his olden thigh, or another hicli early resem blexit; and referring the question to Alexander imself the roya Glycondecided i immediate ly by this oracle, Pythagoras ost dies, and of tocii se Aga in re turn sa notio the prophet' Qui, Whicli prangstom Jove, b his almight sire Commission'da reli eve the jus and good, He came on arth, and When the lighining's blast Shail huri him hence, e mus to Jove ' return,

To such a height o pride and debauchery id hera last arrive that carcean woman whom he admire could escape him the lius band thought itan honou i he would condescend to kis their ives, and ookedipo it asa piece of good fortune i he would admit them into his ouseu many evenboasted of having ad children' hina, and thei spouses complais antly bore Witnes to the truth oscit.

Etimolptilis. J Chies priest o Ceres, a dignit whicli the en)oyed by hereditar right, conserredin them by the Athenians as descendant of Eumolpus the mockis3ysteries iAlexander ere designe by him as an imitationis the great Eleusinia rites, it was ver properae stiouldie furnissaed inith ali necessar appurten ance so the performance of them.' efurn. J Here follo a se curious lines relati nyto his paederastes, hic I have pur se i omitte in the translation.

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it in his ore house, rit te in letters of old. Tel me, grea Glycon, ho areaod λ- am Esculapius the ounger,no the fame a theirst. Howca that beJ-That ou mustino enquire into. How many cars o ou intenda sta with us, and give oracles pone thousand and three years.-An Where o yo go to then p-T Bactria, and the region round bout forcit is siti in that he Barbarians also mould et o the blessing of m presse iace.-Have themther oracles, hos of Claros, Didymos, and Delphos, Apollo for thei fallier and inspirer, or arethe only false and lying prophet λ-That also enquire not os for it is notlarula to reveat.-What hali Ite, after his life ρ- camel, after that aliorse, and aster that a is man, and a Prophet, o inferior o Alexander- Such was the conversatio of the pri est an Glycon, hicli e concluded

with an oracle in verse, no inglim tolera friend of Lepidus, Trust notrio Lepidus for him a fure And readfui death aKaiis Thesprophet, as I be fore observed to)ou, ad an ulter aversion to Epicurus,as most able to oppos his schemes, and detecta is villa ny. ne of his fol-lowers, ho was old nough to attac the impostor, o into no malltro ubi et in ou Alexander se id his an persuade the president of

Gallo-Graecia to accus his servant of a capita crime, an asser that theyhad sat his son, ho asine of ou discipies, though the oung man is nore alive havingueturne sala home aster the convictior of the servanis, who ere devoured by il beast on Our accusation The Det was this the oung man, Who ad been sat ling, and rive by the rapidit of the stream a good a umini AEgypt was persuade to go on to India, and

. no returning the Unfortunate servant imagine he must have peristred nithe Nile, ora ad been sei Zed by obbers of hicli here a great abundance in hos paris: the went back, there fore, an reporte that he was . lost. then sollowed the oracle and the condemnation, after hich the ouilireturne d ann ave an account of his Voyage. Alexander, en rage at this speech, an lano iniit a but to true, ordere those ho ere presentatos onerat m, threaten ing, is the di not, o inflictoli sanae punishment ori them, as accomplices Wit, lim they accordingly began et execute his

Commandis

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command s, hemone Demostratus, a stranger just ara ived in Pontus, rel- tered the oor man, and fave his life even a theia Zard of his own ol

When the ames of thos whoi ad sent in thei questions a calle over Λhich was alwaysione the a be fore the were tot an Mered), the rierasked whether the oracle Nould spe a to sic a man an is the voice illi in replied. Ἀway ith him' to the crows, frona that time forti nobod would receive him in to thei house, nor give hi sire nor ater he was obligedt wander about the arth rom Place o Place, and lookedipon asin profane person, an implous man, and an Epicurean, hich was the worsti ali re-

One hin Alexander did, hicli a trui ridiculous; meeting one daywith a book, hicii contained the principat tenet and opinion o Epicurus, heirought it in to the id die of the market- place, an burne it, signifyin how illinthe would have been to serve the author inasset in the same manner: e then thre the assies into the ea, in consequencio an oracle deli veredin his occasion, hicli se id, Tis, command that strati eiurn the works of thealin dotard He knewmot, reicii ache was, hat profitable instructio that boo conveyed Uliat liberi it inspired, halle ac and tranquillit of minxit produced, o it Deed me froni die Dars and apprehensions frona vati hopes. and extravagant desires, instilling truth and is donara purifying their inds,not illi links, o torches, or an sueti die superstitions, ut v illi right rea.

son truth, and Deedom. I must now relate to ouine of the mos impudent things hicli his rasi .ca ever id. Haviniste acceis to the our of the emperor, by means of Rutilianus, ho was then in great favour, in the iddie of the warietNeea Marcus Aurelius and the Quadi and Marcomanni, he delivere an racle,

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ALEXANDER o R,

In Ister' sacre stream, tis my command, Ye iunge two mountain ions like to tho Whydraru the cari Cybele, illi soNers, And fragrant herbs, that scent the Indian air; This te ad suo glory, Victory, and Peace. This being one ac cor linget his command the lion sinam n more in theenenates country, and were Lillex ith flaves by the Barbarians, like ogg, o foret g wolves; oon aster e received a desperate ' ound scarce essthan went thousand of our orces ein cut off thera followe also, halli appened at Aquileia when the ity a very near being taken. Alexander, in orde to palliat the event, ad recourse to the old Delphic de lance, and

ver cool applied the oracle o Craesus, saying that the o had, in deed, foretoid a victory, ut id not declare hether it ould ali to the Romansor to their ne mi es.

Number at tength lockin into the city on account of the oracle, it becam so fuit that the eopte ere in Want of necessaries; at this time twas that he et up hatae called the night-oraclesa for receiving the booksove night, e sept pon them, and gave his ansNer in the moria ing, as freve alexio hi in by the god in Ddream these e re notita in and clear, ut most of them obscure andinintelligibie; speciali is he observe that thebook was eat edidi illi more than ordinar care et formo Venturing to openit, he wrote in an Mer just, hal came into his head as thin king this a bestsui texto the natur os oracles t explain these, certa in interpreters were ap- potnted, ho receivedioimal re ard sor it frona thos to homuli oraclewas explainees: thei ossice, hori ever a tributary for very one of thempaid Alexander an Atti talent. Sometimes, he nobod ei ther came or sent olim, he wouldiour forthoracles of his own accord mere lyrio surpiis and astonisti the multitudes of this natur Was the folio ing,

Thy nuptialaedo It is Protogenes, Thy servant, e in hom thoidost confides: Thou gav'st him ali, and thus dotii e return The obligation that thou may 'stio sce

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at the content pHe ould osten an e the Barbarians, horasked him question in Celtico Syriac in their Wia langu age, though so metimes e found i di filauit, not havingseople ear o interpret them forat in ut then e tway took care there mouidie time nough etween the deli ver of the books, and

the oracle tot gi ven that he might have letire to open an procure person to explain them.

No listen to a se , hichae deli vered to me; m question as, he ther Alexander a bald; his Pseat exup ver curioiasty the antae Nas, Malach Attis a disserent rom Sabardalachus.

Another time, hen in truo separate books, and Unde t o different ames, I ast e the same question ,-vi Z. DKhat countrymonae the poet Was 3Tomne thema ans ered, With t cylinis I command the to an Oint,

Andria ira Latona' de - .

Malaos, Vc. Here Lucian oes no lassicienti explain the actos as O mahe it intelligibi to his readers. Some servant sentes Alexander, ad probabi proposed his quelmion to him, viz. ere Malach Attis, and Sabardalachus, two obscure hings o sonae distant region, onerand the sanae personi Alexander istaking this question o Lucian's, gives hi in his ansiuer, whicli, by the bye, oes no prove ha Luci an ould insinuate, that Alexander suid any thingillat came uppermost butini that he frequently sent anMers to ne question, hicli propei lybelonged to nother. A circumstance that might appen to any an in the hurry of businesse; just the fame istake is made with regard to his question abo ut Homer. imis. Bear' grease. Latona detu. D Latona is put formiana, o the oon the de musti gatheria Rhils the mouta hines. This superstitio gives it an atris solemnity..

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That man delighis. The truth, as , he di mos cordiali hate me, as et indeed e might dias seon, o ever, sae Eeard that I was come in to the city, and Enere Iwas that ver Lucian who had so harrasse him, I ad luchily, o must know, rought two soldiers it me, sent by m Menesthe governor of Cappadocia, to condue me to the sea, he received me with the greates apyearance of poli tenes and civili ty. I Ken to hi in illi, mard who by good fortune ad accompante me thither in pu forti his hand o meto kist, as his custo in Nas illi the common people; pon hicli, stoopingdorun a id to salute his and I gave hi iniuch a lite as almost lanae hi m. The attendant began to tali pon and beat me, as a profane sacrilegi ous wretch, eingrat ready not a litile provoked that Phad style him pia in Alex

Iumiduight. J f this a Lucian s generat character Khic is no impossibie, however.candi it a b deemed, it was mel not altogether prudent thus to let posterit into the

secret.

A bile. J his as ather a childissi tric os mydrien Lucian's, and whic ive findie had like to have pald dear sor. ander,

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ander, an no the prophet. Heiore it, o Ne ver ver patientiq; calledost ille attendanis, and promi sed he would Oon sinit the means os reconcilinam to him, and would me me the poWer of Glycon, ho could mahe thebittet est enem te frien d to ach ther. The command in Mali that e represen to retire, e egan to expostulate illi me, saying, he ne me very well, and what Phad sal to Rutilianus about him : And why, addedhe, ould ou et thus, heia ou know ho it is in my owe t ad vance yo b his means Knowing the angerous siluation I as in i than ked hi in sor his civili ty, and withdre N. An so e parte friends, to the nosmal astonishment of man who ondere to se me come ossio eli. Soon after this, hend was goinxto se sali, forint Xenophon and my-

he sent me severa presenis, and even ent so far a to offer me a stilinand- Nem to carry me ver thought he meant me Di in ali his, ut whe we were go hal way, observin the pilo in te ars, and quai rellingwith the saliors, Phegan to suspeet omething rong. Alexander, it stems,ha give order that the mould ei Ze and throw us alliver-board whicli, indee had the performed, it ould oon have put an en to ou difference. He persuade them, o ever, by tear an supplications notu do us a nyinjury I, sat he to me, Myo see am threescor yearsis age, and havehitherio live a good an irreproachable iis, and avem is and child ren, and williso after ali, di m hand in blood.V Me then tolesu Alexander's commands, and what he was to have done it his. When the had lande us at giale, celebrated by the oble momor, the returne ho me. Here I et illi sonae Bosphoran ambasim dors, hohad boen sent by k in Eupator into Bithynia to receive the annuat tribute, and old them the anger e ad been in the treate Dus kindl3 , too usint thei stip and thus I go sese to Amasti is, asterita narro es cape. From his time I strat ne ever nerve toae revenge o that ascat, hom, be re the vile nare hic hae lal for me, Palinays abominated ora account of his infamous character. Uno determine Mon a public accusationis him, in hichri a supporte by many an more specialty by thos philosopher relio ere diicipies of Timocrates the Heracliot. ut his as ut a stomto by the Ling of Pontus and Bithynia, who almostin his Enee intreat-od usto gomo farther assuring S, thati account of his particular regardi

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κι ALEXANDER; ost,

sor Rutiliantis, e could o punisti him, even i he had been found guttis of the greatest enormities. I as oblige there fore, o necessit to desist asit ould have been adnes to accus him et ore a jud gesso predetermine l. Among Dother instances of his audaci ty, hat thin hoo of his ascing theem peror o change thema me of the wallis Abonus, an to calicit donopolis and stri hin money ith the representation o Glycon. on ne side, and himself o the ther With the crow of his grand-father sculapius, and the scytheis Perseus, his progenito by the mother' sides He ad pubi iste an oracle hicli foretoid that heriliould live to the ageo a hundred andi sty, and theni ' struc dea with lighining : ut sterali made a most miserable en d dyingie reae a qui te eventy, si ecameth soni Podaliriusa his fio anxio Ner paris morti j in xup to the groin rbesides that he was almost eaten up illi ornas. At the time of his eath,

Such was the catastrophe of the tragedy of Alexander one ould supposeit o have been the work of providen ce, though it might possibi sorial out by mere hance Very fit ting t was that the cere montes after his deat hoould correspond with hos of his life and that a contentio Jould ensueso the oracle. His brethren and accomplices, there fore, petitione Rutilianus to determine hic of them mouid e referre t it, an adornedivitii the sacerdotal robe, and prophetic cro n. Among them a Paetus the physician, an id man, and grey-headed litile id itaecome his greyhairs, o his profession to appea in sicli an assair. Rutilianus, however, who was to deciderit, sent them allis Way uncro ned reserving the prophet's place sortim, at soni more convenient opportunity. I have selected, m dea friend these se rem arks by way fissay, parilyto oblige ou my old acquaintance an companion olio I admire, asweli sor our is dona and love os truth, as for that ostiaes an Meetnes of

Lonopolis. J There are medat 3 et extanti Antoninus Pius, illi the serpent an Glyco opon thema and other of L. Aurel. Verus, illi his inscription λ - τωνοπολιτων. -an unis sine rabie confirmationis the truth of Lucian's narrative.

fratruel dea f. Alludinga his oWn prophec concerni nihimself, in verse. Baia A circumstance whicli Lucian, e find by the question proposed tolim a litile be-

sore, ad come to the knowlege L