id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt www-sacred-texts-com-3190 Works of Lucian, Vol. II: The Way to Write History .html text/html 9476 323 63 'Ah, Onesicritus,' said he, 'how I should like to come to life again for a little while, and see how your stuff strikes people by that time; at present they have good enough reason to praise and welcome it; that is their way of angling for a share of my favour.' On the same principle some people actually accept Homer's history of Achilles, full of exaggerations as it is; the one great guarantee which they recognize of his truth is the fact that his subject was not living; that leaves him no motive for lying. ./cache/www-sacred-texts-com-3190.html ./txt/www-sacred-texts-com-3190.txt