Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Lucian of Samosata, Vol. 1 of 2: From the Greek; With the Comments and Illustrations of Wieland and Others
All that can be with certainty learnt of Lucian's biography must be gathered or conjecturally inferred from the little that he himself has com municated, though but incidentally in his writings, and which is certainly not sufficient to allay the curiosity of such as would fain be acquainted with numerous particulars in the life of a man whose works have excited such very general interest for seventeen centuries since his decease. These.
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