{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg0061.tlg005.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0061.tlg005.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0061.tlg005.local001","title":"Ὠκύπους","titleGreek":"Ὠκύπους","alternateTitles":[],"author":"Pseudo-Lucian","authorityName":"Pseudo-LUCIANUS Soph.","authorUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0061-pseudo-lucianus/","authorityUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0061-pseudo-lucianus/","editors":["Karl Jacobitz"],"publication":{"digitalPublisher":"Trustees of Tufts University","sourceTitle":"Luciani Samosatensis Opera","edition":null,"publisher":"Teubner","place":"Leipzig","date":"1913","volume":"3","series":null,"citation":null,"citationShort":null},"rights":{"text":"Available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},"provenance":{"authority":"Perseus Project","sponsors":["Perseus Project, Tufts University"],"funders":["Tufts University"],"principal":"Gregory Crane","responsibilities":[{"role":"Prepared under the supervision of","names":["Alison Babeu","Lisa Cerrato"]}]},"corpus":{"version":"2.2.0","date":"2026-08-29"},"revisionDate":"2026-08-15","sourceUrl":null,"sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Pseudo-Lucian. Ὠκύπους. ed. Karl Jacobitz. Luciani Samosatensis Opera, Leipzig, Teubner, 1913. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0061.tlg005.local001","excerpt":"Ὠκύπους Ποδαλειρίου καὶ Ἀστασίας υἱὸς ἐγένετο, κάλλει καὶ δυνάμει διαφέρων, γυμνασίων τε καὶ κυνηγεσίων μὴ ἀμελῶν. πολλάκις δὲ θεωρῶν τοὺς ἐχομένους ὑπὸ τῆς ἀτέγκτου Ποδάγρας κατεγέλα φάσκων μηδὲν ὅλως εἶναι τὸ πάθος. ἡ θεὸς τοίνυν ἀγανακτεῖ καὶ διὰ ποδῶν εἰστρέχει. τοῦ δ’ εὐτόνως φέροντος καὶ ἀρνουμένου, ὕπτιον ὅλως τίθησιν ἡ θεός. ἡ μὲν σκηνὴ τοῦ δράματος ὑπόκειται ἐν Θήβαις· ὁ δὲ χορὸς συνέστηκεν ἐξ ἐπιχωρίων ποδαγρῶν. συνελεγχόντων τὸν Ὠκύπουν. τὸ δὲ δρᾶμα τῶν πάνυ ἀστείων. τὰ τοῦ δράματος πρόσωπα Ποδάγρα. Ὠκύπους, Τροφεύς, Ἰατρός, Πόνος, Ἄγγελος. προλογίζει δὲ ἡ Ποδάγρα. Ποδάγρα Δεινὴ μὲν ἐν βροτοῖσι καὶ δυσώνυμος Ποδάγρα κέκλημαι, δεινὸν ἀνθρώποις πάθος, δεσμῶ δὲ νευρίνοισι τοὺς πόδας βρόχοις, ἄρθροισιν εἰσδραμοῦσα μὴ νοουμένη. γελῶ δὲ τοὺς πληγέντας ὑπ’ ἐμοῦ * * καὶ μὴ λέγοντας ἀτρεκῆ τῆς συμφορᾶς, ἀλλ’ εἰς ματαίαν πρόφασιν ἐξησκημένους. ἅπας γὰρ αὑτὸν βουκολεῖ ψευδοστομῶν, ὡς…","divisions":[{"label":"Section 1","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0061.tlg005.local001/#tlg0061-tlg005-local001-urn-cts-greeklit-tlg0061-tlg005-1st1k-grc1"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0061.tlg005.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg0061.tlg005.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0061/tlg005/local001.json.gz"}}