{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg0062.tlg021.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0062.tlg021.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0062.tlg021.local001","title":"Ἰκαρομένιππος ἢ Ὑπερνέφελος","titleGreek":"Ἰκαρομένιππος ἢ Ὑπερνέφελος","alternateTitles":[],"author":"Lucian","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":"1915","volume":"2","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/lucianhar02luciuoft/page/268/mode/2up","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Lucian. Ἰκαρομένιππος ἢ Ὑπερνέφελος. ed. Austin Morris Harmon. Lucian, London, William Heinemann Ltd., 1915. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0062.tlg021.local001","excerpt":"Μένιππος οὐκοῦν τρισχίλιοι μὲν ἦσαν ἀπὸ γῆς στάδιοι μέχρι πρὸς τὴν σελήνην, ὁ πρῶτος ἡμῖν σταθμός· τοὐντεῦθεν δὲ ἐπὶ τὸν ἥλιον ἄνω παρασάγγαι που πεντακόσιοι· τὸ δὲ ἀπὸ τούτου ἐς αὐτὸν ἤδη τὸν οὐρανὸν καὶ τὴν ἀκρόπολιν τὴν τοῦ Διὸς ἄνοδος καὶ ταῦτα γένοιτʼ ἂνγένοιτ' ἃν Dindorf: γένοιτο MSS. εὐζώνῳ ἀετῷ μιᾶς ἡμέρας. γένοιτ' ἃν Dindorf: γένοιτο MSS. Ἕταιρος τί ταῦτα πρὸς Χαρίτων, ὦ Μένιππε, ἀστρονομεῖς καὶ ἡσυχῇ πως ἀναμετρεῖς; πάλαι γὰρ ἐπακροῶμαί σου παρακολουθῶν ἡλίους καὶ σελήνας, ἔτι δὲ τὰ φορτικὰ ταῦτα σταθμούς τινας καὶ παρασάγγας ὑποξενίζοντος. Μένιππος μὴ θαυμάσῃς, ὦ ἑταῖρε, εἰ μετέωρα καὶ διαέρια δοκῶ σοι λαλεῖν· τὸ κεφάλαιον γὰρ δὴ πρὸς ἐμαυτὸν ἀναλογίζομαι τῆς ἔναγχος ἀποδημίας. Ἕταιρος εἶτα, ὦγαθε, καθάπερ οἱ Φοίνικες ἄστροις ἐτεκμαίρου τὴν ὁδόν; Μένιππος οὐ μὰ Δία, ἀλλʼ ἐν αὐτοῖς τοῖς ἄστροις ἐποιούμην τὴν ἀποδημίαν. Ἕταιρος Ἡράκλεις, μακρόν τινα τὸν ὄνειρον λέγεις, εἴ γε…","divisions":[{"label":"§ 1","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0062.tlg021.local001/#tlg0062-tlg021-local001-1"},{"label":"§ 2","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0062.tlg021.local001/#tlg0062-tlg021-local001-2"},{"label":"§ 3","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0062.tlg021.local001/#tlg0062-tlg021-local001-3"},{"label":"§ 4","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0062.tlg021.local001/#tlg0062-tlg021-local001-4"},{"label":"§ 5","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0062.tlg021.local001/#tlg0062-tlg021-local001-5"},{"label":"§ 6","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0062.tlg021.local001/#tlg0062-tlg021-local001-6"},{"label":"§ 7","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0062.tlg021.local001/#tlg0062-tlg021-local001-7"},{"label":"§ 8","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0062.tlg021.local001/#tlg0062-tlg021-local001-8"},{"label":"§ 9","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0062.tlg021.local001/#tlg0062-tlg021-local001-9"},{"label":"§ 10","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0062.tlg021.local001/#tlg0062-tlg021-local001-10"},{"label":"§ 11","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0062.tlg021.local001/#tlg0062-tlg021-local001-11"},{"label":"§ 12","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0062.tlg021.local001/#tlg0062-tlg021-local001-12"},{"label":"§ 13","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0062.tlg021.local001/#tlg0062-tlg021-local001-13"},{"label":"§ 14","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0062.tlg021.local001/#tlg0062-tlg021-local001-14"},{"label":"§ 15","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0062.tlg021.local001/#tlg0062-tlg021-local001-15"},{"label":"§ 16","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0062.tlg021.local001/#tlg0062-tlg021-local001-16"},{"label":"§ 17","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0062.tlg021.local001/#tlg0062-tlg021-local001-17"},{"label":"§ 18","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0062.tlg021.local001/#tlg0062-tlg021-local001-18"},{"label":"§ 19","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0062.tlg021.local001/#tlg0062-tlg021-local001-19"},{"label":"§ 20","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0062.tlg021.local001/#tlg0062-tlg021-local001-20"},{"label":"§ 21","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0062.tlg021.local001/#tlg0062-tlg021-local001-21"},{"label":"§ 22","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0062.tlg021.local001/#tlg0062-tlg021-local001-22"},{"label":"§ 23","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0062.tlg021.local001/#tlg0062-tlg021-local001-23"},{"label":"§ 24","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0062.tlg021.local001/#tlg0062-tlg021-local001-24"},{"label":"§ 25","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0062.tlg021.local001/#tlg0062-tlg021-local001-25"},{"label":"§ 26","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0062.tlg021.local001/#tlg0062-tlg021-local001-26"},{"label":"§ 27","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0062.tlg021.local001/#tlg0062-tlg021-local001-27"},{"label":"§ 28","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0062.tlg021.local001/#tlg0062-tlg021-local001-28"},{"label":"§ 29","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0062.tlg021.local001/#tlg0062-tlg021-local001-29"},{"label":"§ 30","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0062.tlg021.local001/#tlg0062-tlg021-local001-30"},{"label":"§ 31","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0062.tlg021.local001/#tlg0062-tlg021-local001-31"},{"label":"§ 32","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0062.tlg021.local001/#tlg0062-tlg021-local001-32"},{"label":"§ 33","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0062.tlg021.local001/#tlg0062-tlg021-local001-33"},{"label":"§ 34","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0062.tlg021.local001/#tlg0062-tlg021-local001-34"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0062.tlg021.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg0062.tlg021.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0062/tlg021/local001.json.gz"}}