{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg0062.tlg062.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0062.tlg062.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0062.tlg062.local001","title":"Σκύθης ἢ Πρόξενος","titleGreek":"Σκύθης ἢ Πρόξενος","alternateTitles":[],"author":"Lucian","authorityName":"LUCIANUS Soph.","authorUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0062-lucianus/","authorityUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0062-lucianus/","editors":["Karl Jacobitz"],"publication":{"digitalPublisher":"Trustees of Tufts University","sourceTitle":"Luciani Samosatensis Opera","edition":null,"publisher":"Teubner","place":"Leipzig","date":"1909","volume":"1","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":["Google Digital Humanities Awards Program"],"principal":"Gregory Crane","responsibilities":[{"role":"Prepared under the supervision of","names":["Bridget Almas","Lisa Cerrato","Rashmi Singhal"]}]},"corpus":{"version":"2.2.0","date":"2026-08-29"},"revisionDate":"2026-08-15","sourceUrl":"https://archive.org/details/operaexrecogniti01luciuoft/page/404/mode/2up","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Lucian. Σκύθης ἢ Πρόξενος. ed. Karl Jacobitz. Luciani Samosatensis Opera, Leipzig, Teubner, 1909. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0062.tlg062.local001","excerpt":"οὐ πρῶτος Ἀνάχαρσις ἀφίκετο ἐκ Σκυθίας Ἀθήναζε παιδείας ἐπιθυμίᾳ τῆς Ἑλληνικῆς, ἀλλὰ καὶ Τόξαρις πρὸ αὐτοῦ, σοφὸς μὲν καὶ φιλόκαλος ἀνὴρ καὶ ἐπιτηδευμάτων φιλομαθὴς τῶν ἀρίστων, οἴκοι δὲ οὐ τοῦ βασιλείου γένους ὢν οὐδὲ τῶν πιλοφορικῶν, ἀλλὰ Σκυθῶν τῶν πολλῶν καὶ δημοτικῶν, οἷοί εἰσι παρʼ αὐτοῖς οἱ ὀκτάποδες καλούμενοι, τοῦτο δέ ἐστι, δύο βοῶν δεσπότην εἶναι καὶ ἁμάξης μιᾶς. οὗτος ὁ Τόξαρις οὐδʼ ἀπῆλθεν ἔτι ὀπίσω ἐς Σκύθας, ἀλλʼ Ἀθήνησιν ἀπέθανε, καὶ μετʼ οὐ πολὺ καὶ ἥρως ἔδοξε καὶ ἐντέμνουσιν αὐτῷ Ξένῳ Ἰατρῷ οἱ Ἀθηναῖοι· τοῦτο γὰρ τοὔνομα ἥρως γενόμενος ἐπεκτήσατο. τὴν δὲ αἰτίαν τῆς ἐπωνυμίας καὶ ἀνθʼ ὅτου ἐς τοὺς ἥρωας κατελέγη καὶ τῶν Ἀσκληπιαδῶν εἷς ἔδοξεν, οὐ χεῖρον ἴσως διηγήσασθαι, ὡς μάθητε οὐ Σκύθαις μόνον ἐπιχώριον ὂν ἀπαθανατίζειν καὶ πέμπειν παρὰ τὸν Ζάμολξιν, ἀλλὰ καὶ Ἀθηναίοις ἐξεῖναι θεοποιεῖν τοὺς Σκύθας ἐπὶ τῆς Ἑλλάδος.","divisions":[{"label":"§ 1","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0062.tlg062.local001/1-1/"},{"label":"§ 2","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0062.tlg062.local001/2-2/"},{"label":"§ 3","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0062.tlg062.local001/3-3/"},{"label":"§ 4","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0062.tlg062.local001/4-4/"},{"label":"§ 5","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0062.tlg062.local001/5-5/"},{"label":"§ 6","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0062.tlg062.local001/6-6/"},{"label":"§ 7","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0062.tlg062.local001/7-7/"},{"label":"§ 8","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0062.tlg062.local001/8-8/"},{"label":"§ 9","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0062.tlg062.local001/9-9/"},{"label":"§ 10","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0062.tlg062.local001/10-10/"},{"label":"§ 11","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0062.tlg062.local001/11-11/"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0062.tlg062.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg0062.tlg062.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0062/tlg062/local001.json.gz"}}