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The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

Lucian (c. 125–after 180)

Lucian—Lucianus (lö’shun). A celebrated Greek satirist; born at Samosata, in northern Syria, about 125 A.D.; died after 180 A.D. Very many of his writings are extant, among them: ‘Praise of Demosthenes’; ‘Dialogues of the Gods’; ‘Dialogues of the Sea Gods’; ‘Dialogues of the Dead’; ‘The True History’; ‘Lucius; or The Ass’; ‘On the Syrian Goddess’; ‘Death of Peregrinus’; ‘The Lover of Lying’; ‘The Sea Voyage; or Votive Offerings’; ‘The Banquet; or The Lapithæ’; ‘The Fisherman’; ‘The Sale of Lives’; ‘Hermotimus’; ‘Alexander, or The False Prophet’; ‘Anacharsis.’ The genuine writings of Lucian that are extant number 124, not including some fifty epigrams. (See Critical and Biographical Introduction).

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