Lucian
Lucian
Lucian of Samosatawas a rhetorician and satirist who wrote in the Greek language during the Second Sophistic. He is noted for his witty and scoffing nature. Although he wrote solely in Greek, mainly Attic Greek, he was ethnically Assyrian. Lucian claimed to be a native speaker of a "barbarian tongue"which was most likely Syriac, a dialect of Aramaic...
men suffering poverty
Poverty persuades a man to do and suffer everything that he may escape from it.
past journey want
The industry needs transforming. It’s for others to decide whether they want to get stuck in the past or whether they want to come on the journey.
kept storm walls
We got them out right after the storm and kept them in the walls of the stable.
feels model painted painter preserving thinks took
The picture is all he feels about it, all he thinks worth preserving of it, all he invests it with. If all the qualities which a painter took from the model for his picture were really taken, no person could be painted twice.
entirely whether
Whether it will convince or not, depends entirely on what it is in itself, what is there to be seen.
people spite
I paint people not because of what they are like, not exactly in spite of what they are like, but how they happen to be.
element fact merely revelation strike truth
There is a distinction between fact and truth. Truth has an element of revelation about it. If something is true, it does more than strike one as merely being so.
accurate copies faithfully hung model next since whether
Since the model he so faithfully copies is not going to be hung up next to the picture... it is of no interest whether it is an accurate copy of the model.
animals came father glad lost sorry three trying
When they came to get us, I was glad to see my father again, glad to get the animals out, glad to be alive. I'm sorry I lost three though...I was trying to get them all out.
baton crew east heard home house ok stay sticking sure together worked works
We worked together the whole time. The whole crew works like a family. Mr. Sheldon made sure I had a home to stay in, and we're all in the house (Mitchell, his father, and Stewart in east Baton Rouge). We've just been sticking together like family. I hadn't heard from some of my family, then I did...everyone's OK now, and so I can rest.
boss cell coming communication lost phones prayed seen trucks
I had just prayed and hoped, and I seen the boss coming in with the trucks and trailers. We had only had communication with the police--we lost our cell phones and other phones the first night.
business finances house money running three
Finances would help, anything they can spare, it doesn't have to be much. The business is gone. All three of us are in the same house and running out of money and food.
buy car fashion jewelry move people sell status symbol
There has been a big move to sell car accessories as if they were fashion items. It's a status symbol in the same way jewelry is - people can buy in at every level.
few handed hung single
I was single handed at the end and was drug a few times--I just hung in there.