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The Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 04

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A collection of short satirical dialogues and essays that skewers pretension, superstition, and literary and social affectation. Through brisk fictional debates and ironic anecdotes the author lampoons philosophical posturing, religious credulity, courtly flattery, and malicious rumor, alternating comic portraiture with mock encomia, imagined councils, and playful letters. The pieces blend caustic wit and skeptical reflection to expose hypocrisy, probe the limits of accepted wisdom, and prompt readers toward sharper judgment while entertaining with vivid scenes and nimble rhetorical turns.

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❡ Greek

HESIOD. The Poems and Fragments. By A. W. Mair.

PLATO. The Four Socratic Dialogues. By Benjamin Jowett, with Preface by Edward Caird. Cheaper edition, 4s. 6d. net.

PLATO. The Republic. By Benjamin Jowett. Two vols. 8s. 6d. net. Cheaper edition 7s. 6d. net, or 4s. 6d. net each volume. In one volume on India paper, 10s. 6d. net.

PLATO. Thirteen Epistles of Plato. By L. A. Post.

PLATO. Epinomis. By J. Harward. Shortly.

DEMOSTHENES. Public Orations. By A. W. Pickard-Cambridge. Two vols. 8s. 6d. net.

ARISTOTLE. Politics. By Benjamin Jowett, with Introduction by H. W. C. Davis. Cheaper edition, 4s. 6d. net.

PLUTARCH. Selected Essays. By T. G. Tucker. Selected Essays from The Moralia, by A. O. Prickard. Two vols. 8s. 6d. net.

EPICTETUS. The Discourses and Manual, with Fragments of his Writings. By P. E. Matheson. Two vols. 8s. 6d. net.

MARCUS AURELIUS. The Meditations. By John Jackson, with Introduction by Charles Bigg.

LUCIAN, By H. W. and F. G. Fowler. Four vols. 16s. net.

PHILOSTRATUS. In Honour of Apollonius of Tyana. By J. S. Phillimore. Two vols. 8s. 6d. net.

LONGINUS. On the Sublime. By A. O. Prickard.

MARK THE DEACON. The Life of Porphyry of Gaza. By G. F. Hill.

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CAESAR. The Gallic War. By F. P. Long.

CAESAR. The Civil War. By F. P. Long.

LUCRETIUS. On the Nature of Things. By Cyril Bailey.

VIRGIL. By John Jackson. On India paper, 7s. 6d. n.

HORACE. By E. C. Wickham. Out of print.

PROPERTIUS. By J. S. Phillimore.

STATIUS. The Silvae. By D. A. Slater.

TACITUS. The Histories. By W. Hamilton Fyfe. Two vols. 8s. 6d. net.

TACITUS. The Dialogue, Agricola and Germania. By W. Hamilton Fyfe.

APULEIUS. The Apologia and Florida. By H. E. Butler.

APULEIUS. The Metamorphoses. By H. E. Butler. Two vols. 8s. 6d. net.

SIDONIUS. The Letters. By O. M. Dalton. Two vols. 8s. 6d. net.

ST. BERNARD. On consideration. By George Lewis.

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ALFRED. Version of the Consolations of Boethius. By W. J. Sedgefield.

DANTE. The Convivio. By W. W. Jackson.

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Transcriber's Notes:

Simple spelling, grammar, and typographical errors were silently corrected.

Punctuation normalized.

Anachronistic and non-standard spellings retained as printed.

Chapters V and VI of DIALOGUES OF THE HETAERAE were not included.