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 > [4] Augean stable | The Fifth Labour of Heracles was to clean the Augean stables, which contained the single greatest number of cattle in the region and was never cleaned until Heracles finished the labour. One estimate was that the stables had not been cleaned for 30 years.
-{{:home:texts_and_library:essays:pasted:20190707-211524.png|The Snake of Glycon; used to con unsuspecting audiences by Alexander}}
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 Of Cybelean thralls, those mountain beasts,\\
 Fling you a pair; therewith all flowers and herbs\\
-Of savour sweet that Indian air doth breed. \\
+Of savour sweet that Indian air does breed. \\
 Hence victory, and fame, and lovely peace.\\
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 Sometimes he stirred the wonder of the silly by answers to persons who had neither brought nor sent questions and in fact did not exist. Here is a specimen:
-//Who is’t, thou askst, that with Calligenia\\
+//Who is it, you ask, that with Calligenia\\
-All secretly defiles thy nuptial bed?\\
+All secretly defiles your nuptial bed?\\
-The slave Protogenes, whom most thou trustest.\\
+The slave Protogenes, whom you most trust.\\
-Him thou enjoyedst: he thy wife enjoys — \\
+Him you enjoyed: he your wife enjoys — \\
-The fit return for that thine outrage done. \\
+The fit return for that your outrage done. \\
-And know that baleful drugs for thee are brewed,\\
+And know that baleful drugs for you are brewed,\\
-Lest thou or see or hear their evil deeds.\\
+Lest you see or hear their evil deeds.\\
-Close by the wall, at thy bed’s head, make search.\\
+Close by the wall, at your bed’s head, make search.\\
-Thy maid Calypso to their plot is privy.//
+Your maid Calypso to their plot is privy.//
 The names and circumstantial details might stagger a Democritus, till a moment’s thought showed him the despicable trick.
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 Another time I did up the same question — What was Homer’s birthplace?[2]— in two packets given in under different names. My servant misled him by saying when asked what he came for, a cure for lung trouble; so the answer to one packet was:
-//With cytmis[3] I command thee to anoint,\\
+//With cytmis[3] I command you to anoint,\\
 And fair Latona's dew[4] —//
 As for the other packet, he got the information that the sender was inquiring whether the land or the sea route to Italy was preferable. So he answered, without much reference to Homer:
-//Fare not by sea; land-travel meets thy need.//
+//Fare not by sea; land-travel meets your need.//
 > [1] Malach Attis was different from Sabardalachus | Here Lucian does not sufficiently explain the fact, so as to make it intelligible to his readers. Some servant sent to Alexander had probably posed this question to him, viz. Were Malach Attis and Sabardalachus, two obscure kings of some distant region, one and the same person? Alexander mistaking this question for Lucian's gives the reader this answer, which by the bye, does not prove that he frequently sent answers to one question, which properly belonged to another. A circumstance that might happen to any man in the hurry of business, just the same mistake is made with regard to his question about Homer.((Select Dialogues: Of Lucian, Translated from the Greek by Thomas Franklin, D.D. The Sungraphein, by G. W. Vernon, Esq. William M’Kenzie, 1792.))