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Πρὸς τὸν ἀπαίδευτον καὶ πολλὰ βιβλία ὠνούμενον
Adversus Indoctum
The Ignorant Book-Collector
A diatribe against a Syrian book-collector.

Lucian of Samosata (Λουκιανός ό Σαμοσατεύς), (c. 125 – after 180) was a Hellenized Syrian satirist, rhetorician and pamphleteer who is best known for his characteristic tongue-in-cheek style, with which he frequently ridiculed superstition, religious practices, and belief in the paranormal. Although his native language was probably Syriac, all of his extant works are written entirely in ancient Greek