{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg0062.tlg023.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0062.tlg023.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0062.tlg023.local001","title":"Χάρων ἢ Ἐπισκοποῦντες","titleGreek":"Χάρων ἢ Ἐπισκοποῦντες","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/396/mode/2up","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Lucian. Χάρων ἢ Ἐπισκοποῦντες. ed. Austin Morris Harmon. Lucian, London, William Heinemann Ltd., 1915. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0062.tlg023.local001","excerpt":"Ἑρμῆς τί γελᾷς, ὦ Χάρων; ἢ τί τὸ πορθμεῖον ἀπολιπὼν δεῦρο ἀνελήλυθας εἰς τὴν ἡμετέραν οὐ πάνυ εἰωθὼς ἐπιχωριάζειν τοῖς ἄνω πράγμασιν; Χάρων ἐπεθύμησα, ὦ Ἑρμῆ, ἰδεῖν ὁποῖά ἐστι τὰ ἐν τῷ βίῳ καὶ ἃ πράττουσιν οἱ ἄνθρωποι ἐν αὐτῷ ἢ τίνων στερούμενοι πάντες οἰμώζουσι κατιόντες παρʼ ἡμᾶς· οὐδεὶς γὰρ αὐτῶν ἀδακρυτὶ διέπλευσεν. αἰτησάμενος οὖν παρὰ τοῦ Ἅιδου καὶ αὐτὸς ὥσπερ ὁ Θετταλὸς ἐκεῖνος νεανίσκος μίαν ἡμέραν λιπόνεως γενέσθαι ἀνελήλυθα ἐς τὸ φῶς, καί μοι δοκῶ εἰς δέον ἐντετυχηκέναι σοι· ξεναγήσεις γὰρ εὖ οἶδʼ ὅτι με συμπερινοστῶν καὶ δείξεις ἕκαστα ὡς ἂν εἰδὼς ἅπαντα. Ἑρμῆς οὐ σχολή μοι, ὦ πορθμεῦ· ἀπέρχομαι γάρ τι διακονησόμενος τῷ ἄνω Διὶ τῶν ἀνθρωπικῶν· ὁ δὲ ὀξύθυμός τέ ἐστικαὶ ὀργίλος? καὶ δέδια μὴ βραδύναντά με ὅλον ὑμέτερον ἐάσῃ εἶναι παραδοὺς τῷ ζόφῳ, ἢ ὅπερ τὸν Ἥφαιστον πρῴην ἐποίησε, ῥίψῃ κἀμὲ τεταγὼν τοῦ ποδὸς ἀπὸ τοῦ θεσπεσίου βηλοῦ, ὡς ὑποσκάζων γέλωτα παρέχοιμι καὶ αὐτὸς…","divisions":[{"label":"§ 1","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0062.tlg023.local001/#tlg0062-tlg023-local001-1"},{"label":"§ 2","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0062.tlg023.local001/#tlg0062-tlg023-local001-2"},{"label":"§ 3","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0062.tlg023.local001/#tlg0062-tlg023-local001-3"},{"label":"§ 4","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0062.tlg023.local001/#tlg0062-tlg023-local001-4"},{"label":"§ 5","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0062.tlg023.local001/#tlg0062-tlg023-local001-5"},{"label":"§ 6","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0062.tlg023.local001/#tlg0062-tlg023-local001-6"},{"label":"§ 7","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0062.tlg023.local001/#tlg0062-tlg023-local001-7"},{"label":"§ 8","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0062.tlg023.local001/#tlg0062-tlg023-local001-8"},{"label":"§ 9","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0062.tlg023.local001/#tlg0062-tlg023-local001-9"},{"label":"§ 10","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0062.tlg023.local001/#tlg0062-tlg023-local001-10"},{"label":"§ 11","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0062.tlg023.local001/#tlg0062-tlg023-local001-11"},{"label":"§ 12","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0062.tlg023.local001/#tlg0062-tlg023-local001-12"},{"label":"§ 13","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0062.tlg023.local001/#tlg0062-tlg023-local001-13"},{"label":"§ 14","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0062.tlg023.local001/#tlg0062-tlg023-local001-14"},{"label":"§ 15","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0062.tlg023.local001/#tlg0062-tlg023-local001-15"},{"label":"§ 16","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0062.tlg023.local001/#tlg0062-tlg023-local001-16"},{"label":"§ 17","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0062.tlg023.local001/#tlg0062-tlg023-local001-17"},{"label":"§ 18","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0062.tlg023.local001/#tlg0062-tlg023-local001-18"},{"label":"§ 19","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0062.tlg023.local001/#tlg0062-tlg023-local001-19"},{"label":"§ 20","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0062.tlg023.local001/#tlg0062-tlg023-local001-20"},{"label":"§ 21","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0062.tlg023.local001/#tlg0062-tlg023-local001-21"},{"label":"§ 22","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0062.tlg023.local001/#tlg0062-tlg023-local001-22"},{"label":"§ 23","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0062.tlg023.local001/#tlg0062-tlg023-local001-23"},{"label":"§ 24","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0062.tlg023.local001/#tlg0062-tlg023-local001-24"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0062.tlg023.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg0062.tlg023.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0062/tlg023/local001.json.gz"}}