Excerpt from The Works of Lucian of Samosata, Vol. 3 of 4: Complete With Exceptions Specified in the Preface Instead of confining himself to a single philosophic school, 5 he laid them all under contribution, without showing clearly which of them he preferred; but perhaps he was nearest akin to Socrates; for, though he had leanings as regards externals and plain living to Diogenes, he never studied efiect or lived for the applause and admiration of the multitude his ways were like other people's; he mounted no high horse; he vwas just a man and a citizen. He indulged in no Socratic irony; 6 but his discourse was full of Attic grace; those who heard it went away neither disgusted by servility nor repelled by ill tempered censure, but on the contrary lifted out of them selves by charity, and encouraged to more orderly, contented, hopeful lives. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.