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 The Works of Lucian of Samosata. Translated by Fowler, H W and F G. Oxford: The Clarendon Press. 1905.
-It has frequently been observed, by both ancients and moderns, that, to the reproach of Human Nature, wise men are sometimes as foolish as other people. Lucian, to convince his readers of this truth, gives us an account of a feast where the philosophers, who were invited to it, got drunk, abused, and beat one another: a feast which might very probably happen, and which Lucian here describes with infinite humor. The parties concerned were, we may suppose, pretty well known; and this relation of their behaviour must have afforded no small entertainment to the public. The Lapithae, a People of Thessalia, at a great feast, made on the marriage of Pirithous, their King, quarrelled with the Centaurs, fought, and routed them: in Allusion to this, Lucian humorously calls his Philosophers' Feast, the Lapithae.
+> It has frequently been observed, by both ancients and moderns, that, to the reproach of Human Nature, wise men are sometimes as foolish as other people. Lucian, to convince his readers of this truth, gives us an account of a feast where the philosophers, who were invited to it, got drunk, abused, and beat one another: a feast which might very probably happen, and which Lucian here describes with infinite humor. The parties concerned were, we may suppose, pretty well known; and this relation of their behaviour must have afforded no small entertainment to the public. The Lapithae, a People of Thessalia, at a great feast, made on the marriage of Pirithous, their King, quarrelled with the Centaurs, fought, and routed them: in Allusion to this, Lucian humorously calls his Philosophers' Feast, the Lapithae.
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 //Ly//. Yes, but only later on; he came when the fray was already a promising one, though no blows had yet been struck. I doubt whether he could have any intelligible account to give, as he had not followed the beginning of the rivalry that was to end in bloodshed.
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