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 The Works of Lucian of Samosata. Translated by Fowler, H W and F G. Oxford: The Clarendon Press. 1905.
-The intent of this dialogue is evidently nothing less than a opportunity to ridicule the whole system of religion that prevailed in the pagan world, particularly the doctrine of fate, which Lucian tries to show is full of error and inconsistency. Nothing can exceed the freedom and familiarity with which Lucian, in this, as well as other parts of his works, treat Zeus and the reat of the divinities.\\
+The intent of this dialogue is evidently nothing less than an opportunity to ridicule the whole system of religion that prevailed in the pagan world, particularly the doctrine of fate, which Lucian tries to show is full of error and inconsistency. Nothing can exceed the freedom and familiarity with which Lucian, in this, as well as other parts of his works, treat Zeus and the rest of the divinities.\\
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 //Cyn//. Zeus: I am not going to trouble you with requests for a fortune or a throne; you get prayers enough of that sort from other people, and from your habit of convenient deafness I gather that you experience a difficulty in answering them. But there is one thing I should like, which would cost you no trouble to grant.
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 //Zeus//. Well, Cyniscus? You shall not be disappointed, if your expectations are as reasonable as you say.