{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg0062.tlg001.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0062.tlg001.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0062.tlg001.local001","title":"Φάλαρις","titleGreek":"Φάλαρις","alternateTitles":[],"author":"Lucian of Samosata","authorityName":"LUCIANUS Soph.","authorUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0062-lucianus/","authorityUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0062-lucianus/","editors":["Austin Morris Harmon"],"publication":{"digitalPublisher":"Trustees of Tufts University","sourceTitle":"Lucian","edition":null,"publisher":"William Heinemann Ltd.","place":"London","date":"1913","volume":"1","series":"Loeb Classical Library","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":["The National Endowment for the Humanities","Harvard Library Arcadia Fund","Google Digital Humanities Awards Program"],"principal":"Gregory Crane","responsibilities":[{"role":"Prepared under the supervision of","names":["Bridget Almas","Lisa Cerrato","Gregory Crane","Rashmi Singhal"]}]},"corpus":{"version":"2.2.0","date":"2026-08-29"},"revisionDate":"2026-08-15","sourceUrl":"https://archive.org/details/lucianha01luciuoft/page/n19/mode/2up","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Lucian Of Samosata. Φάλαρις. ed. Austin Morris Harmon. Lucian, London, William Heinemann Ltd., 1913. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0062.tlg001.local001","excerpt":"ἔπεμψεν ἡμᾶς, ὦ Δελφοί, ὁ ἡμέτερος δυνάστης Φάλαρις ἄξοντας τῷ θεῷ τὸν ταῦρον τοῦτον καὶ ὑμῖν διαλεξομένους τὰ εἰκότα ὑπέρ τε αὐτοῦ ἐκείνου καὶ ὑπὲρ τοῦ ἀναθήματος. ὧν μὲν οὖν ἕνεκα ἥκομεν, ταῦτά ἐστιν· ἃ δέ γε πρὸς ὑμᾶς ἐπέστειλεν τάδε·τάδε Herwerden: not in MSS. Lacuna noted by E. Schwartz, Nilén. ἐγώ, φησίν, ὦ Δελφοί, καὶ παρὰ πᾶσι μὲν τοῖς Ἕλλησι τοιοῦτος ὑπολαμβάνεσθαι ὁποῖός εἰμι, ἀλλὰ μὴ ὁποῖον ἡ παρὰ τῶν μισούντων καὶ φθονούντων φήμη ταῖς τῶν ἀγνοούντων ἀκοαῖς παραδέδωκεν, ἀντὶ τῶν πάντων ἀλλαξαίμην ἄν, μάλιστα δὲ παρʼ ὑμῖν, ὅσῳ ἱεροί τέ ἐστε καὶ πάρεδροι τοῦ Πυθίου καὶ μόνον οὐ σύνοικοι καὶ ὁμωρόφιοι τοῦ θεοῦ. ἡγοῦμαι γάρ, εἰ ὑμῖν ἀπολογησαίμην καὶ πείσαιμι μάτην ὠμὸς ὑπειλῆφθαι, καὶ τοῖς ἄλλοις ἅπασι διʼ ὑμῶν ἀπολελογημένος ἔσεσθαι. καλῶ δὲ ὧν ἐρῶ τὸν θεὸν αὐτὸν μάρτυρα, ὃν οὐκ ἔνι δή που παραλογίσασθαι καὶ ψευδεῖ λόγῳ παραγαγεῖν· ἀνθρώπους μὲν γὰρ ἴσως ἐξαπατῆσαι ῥᾴδιον,…","divisions":[{"label":"Book 1","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0062.tlg001.local001/#tlg0062-tlg001-local001-1"},{"label":"Book 2","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0062.tlg001.local001/#tlg0062-tlg001-local001-2"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0062.tlg001.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg0062.tlg001.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0062/tlg001/local001.json.gz"}}