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Luciano di Samosata è stato uno scrittore e retore greco antico di origine siriana, celebre per la natura arguta e irriverente dei suoi scritti satirici. Fu esponente della seconda sofistica, e simpatizzante dell'epicureismo.

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“Molti ne ho pure io domi degli Eroi | e sel sanno i Sapienti, e Priamo detto | fu Podarco, per esser podagroso. | Morì di gotta Achille di Pelèo: | di podagra patì Bellorofonte; | podagroso fu Edipo re di Tebe. | Podagroso Plistene dei Pelopidi: | di Peante il figliuol colla podagra | conduceva l'armata, ed altro duce | dei Tessali fu pur detto Podarco, | il qual, poscia che cadde in la battaglia | Protesilao ancor esso gottoso, | Benché non sano conducea l'armata. | Il re d'ltaca Ulisse di Laerte | uccisi io, non la spina della triglia.”

Luciano di Samosata libro La gotta

Podagra, p. 28 http://books.google.it/books?id=sBdrliWHpm0C&pg=RA2-PA28
La tragopodagra o il podagroso

“Grande, o ricca Podagra”

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La tragopodagra o il podagroso

“[…] calco i capi degli uomini, e le piante de' miei piedi son tenere, e dal valgo son chiamata Podagra, perché ai piedi io fo caccia.”

Luciano di Samosata libro La gotta

Podagra, p. 27 http://books.google.it/books?id=sBdrliWHpm0C&pg=RA2-PA28
La tragopodagra o il podagroso
Origine: Nei due componimenti, la Podagra viene personificata come una dea.

“Ascoltate […] le parole che provengono dal cuore.”

Luciano di Samosata

da Iuppiter tragoedus, 19

Luciano di Samosata: Frasi in inglese

“The good historian, then, must be thus described: he must be fearless, uncorrupted, free, the friend of truth and of liberty; one who, to use the words of the comic poet, calls a fig a fig, and a skiff a skiff, neither giving nor withholding from any, from favour or from enmity, not influenced by pity, by shame, or by remorse; a just judge, so far benevolent to all as never to give more than is due to any in his work; a stranger to all, of no country, bound only by his own laws, acknowledging no sovereign, never considering what this or that man may say of him, but relating faithfully everything as it happened.”

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How to Write History

“For history, I say again, has this and this only for its own: if a man will start upon it, he must sacrifice to no God but Truth; he must neglect all else; his sole rule and unerring guide is this – to think not of those who are listening to him now, but of the yet unborn who shall seek his converse.”

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Sect. 39; vol. 2, pp. 128-9; H. W. Fowler and F. G. Fowler (trans.) The Works of Lucian of Samosata.
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“The historian's one task is to tell the thing as it happened.”

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Sect. 39; vol. 2, p. 128; H. W. Fowler and F. G. Fowler (trans.) The Works of Lucian of Samosata.
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“He is unpardonable, therefore, who cannot distinguish one from the other; but lays on history the paint of poetry, its flattery, fable, and hyperbole: it is just as ridiculous as it would be to clothe one of our robust wrestlers, who is as hard as an oak, in fine purple, or some such meretricious garb, and put paint on his cheeks; how would such ornaments debase and degrade him!”

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“The body of the history is only a long narrative, and as such it must go on with a soft and even motion, alike in every part, so that nothing should stand too forward, or retreat too far behind.”

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“I say, therefore, that he who would write history well must be possessed of these two principal qualifications, a fine understanding and a good style: one is the gift of nature, and cannot be taught; the other may be acquired by frequent exercise, perpetual labour and an emulation of the ancients.”

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“First, then, I went to the Indians, the mightiest nation upon earth. I had little trouble in persuading them to descend from their elephants and follow me. The Brahmins, who dwell between Oxydracae and the country of the Nechrei, are mine to a man: they live according to my laws, and are respected by all their neighbours; and the manner of their death is truly wonderful.”

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The Runaways http://www.sacred-texts.com/cla/luc/wl4/wl421.htm

“The effort only shifted me from the frying-pan into the fire.”

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"Menippus, a Necromantic Experiment", sect. 4; vol. 1, p. 158.

“History, when she adds pleasure to utility, may attract more admirers; though as long as she is possessed of that greatest of perfections, truth, she need not be anxious concerning beauty.”

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“Criticism is twofold: that which teaches us what we are to choose, and that which teaches us what to avoid.”

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“These men seem not to know that poetry has its particular rules and precepts; and that history is governed by others directly opposite.”

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“I now make the only true statement you are to expect – that I am a liar. This confession is, I consider, a full defence against all imputations. My subject is, then, what I have neither seen, experienced, nor been told, what neither exists nor could conceivably do so. I humbly solicit my readers' incredulity.”

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"The True History", sect. 4; vol. 2, p. 137.

“Everything has a beauty peculiar to itself; but if you put one instead of another, the most beautiful becomes ugly, because it is not in its proper place.”

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“Ignorance is a dreadful thing and has caused no end of damage to the human race.”

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Cited in Tim Flannery, Atmosphere of Hope. Solutions to the Climate Crisis, Penguin Books, 2015, page 81 ISBN 9780141981048.
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“The truth is hidden from us. Even if a mere piece of luck brings us straight to it, we shall have no grounded conviction of our success; there are so many similar objects, all claiming to be the real thing.”

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"Hermotimus, or the Rival Philosophies", sect. 49; vol. 2, p. 69.

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