"His face is ever before my eyes, and his voice still sounding in my ear; for, as the comic poet says, he left a sting in the minds of his hearers."
— Francklin, Thomas (1721-1784); Lucian (b.c. 125, d. after 180)
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for T. Cadell
Date
1780
Metaphor
"His face is ever before my eyes, and his voice still sounding in my ear; for, as the comic poet says, he left a sting in the minds of his hearers."
Metaphor in Context
If you had not asked me, I should have desired you to hear it, for I want to bring you in as an evidence in my favour, that I may not run mad without a reason; besides, that I always take a pleasure in recollecting it: it is my constant employment, and, when I am by myself, I repeat it three or four times in a day; just as lovers, when their mistresses are absent, call to mind every word and every action, and converse with the dear object, as if it were before their eyes; and thus, by dwelling perpetually upon it, soften the disease; talking with them, and making kind answers for them, which delight as much as if they were real: thus do I, in the absence of my dear philosophy, call to mind the words which I heard, and joy in the recollection of them; tossed, as it were, on the ocean, in a dark and tempestuous night, I look still towards this light, to guide and direct me in every thing I do or say; imagine this great man present, and think I hear him talking to me; his face is ever before my eyes, and his voice still sounding in my ear; for, as the *comic poet says, he left a sting in the minds of his hearers.
* Comic poet,] Alluding probably to that passage of Eupolis, quoted by Diodorus Siculus, where, speaking of Pericles, the famous orator, he says, of all the great speakers
--he could leave behind,
The sting, deep-pointed, in the hearer's mind. (pp. 16-17)
* Comic poet,] Alluding probably to that passage of Eupolis, quoted by Diodorus Siculus, where, speaking of Pericles, the famous orator, he says, of all the great speakers
--he could leave behind,
The sting, deep-pointed, in the hearer's mind. (pp. 16-17)
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Citation
3 entries in ESTC (1780, 1781). See also Select Dialogues (1785). Translations of select dialogues date from 1634.
Text from The Works of Lucian, from the Greek, by Thomas Francklin, D. D. Some Time Greek Professor in the University of Cambridge. (London: Printed for T. Cadell, in the Strand, 1780). <Link to ESTC><Link to Google Books>
Text from The Works of Lucian, from the Greek, by Thomas Francklin, D. D. Some Time Greek Professor in the University of Cambridge. (London: Printed for T. Cadell, in the Strand, 1780). <Link to ESTC><Link to Google Books>
Date of Entry
11/15/2013
