Vulgar words in Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 02 (Page 1)
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Shall an ass affect the lyre?
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There you are again, cheating me with your irony; you take me for a blockhead, who will believe that an intelligent person like Hermotimus, at the age of forty, would accept the word of laymen about philosophy and philosophers, and make his own selection on the strength of what they said.
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Shortly after, as my hostess was serving me, I saw that in place of human feet she had ass's hoofs; whereupon I drew my sword, seized, bound, and closely questioned her.
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Reluctantly enough she had to confess; they were sea- women called Ass-shanks, and their food was travellers.
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Truly that would be the climax: that I should show my long beard and white hairs amid that throng of women and lunatics; and clap and yell in unseemly rapture over the vile contortions of an abandoned buffoon.
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The change will come; but will not involve an ass's head, nor a pig's heart, but only an improved understanding.
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'Yes; the lecher and whore-master.