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The MouseionLucian of SamosataThe Fly

The FlyΜυίας Ἐγκώμιον

By Lucian of Samosata. Muscae Encomium · English title from the library's translation

Kind of writing
Oratory
Dialect
Attic/Koine
Written
2nd c. AD
Length
1,346 words analysed
In the library
1 Greek text, 2 English translations

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Each is the collection's own file, read unchanged from the Perseus Digital Library or Open Greek and Latin. The description is theirs too.

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μῆνιν ἄειδε θεὰ Πηληϊάδεω Ἀχιλῆοςοὐλομένην, ἣ μυρίʼ Ἀχαιοῖς ἄλγεʼ ἔθηκε

Greek size
— px
Line spacing
1.8

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