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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. 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.