# Ὑπὲρ τῶν Εἰκόνων 11

Lucian, Ὑπὲρ τῶν Εἰκόνων, Section 11. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/lucian/text-53/11

κἀκεῖνο δὲ εἰπεῖν σοι ἐνετείλατο. ἀκούω, ἔφη, πολλῶν λεγόντων — εἰ δὲ ἀληθές, ὑμεῖς οἱ ἄνδρες ἴστε — μηδʼ Ὀλυμπίασιν ἐξεῖναι τοῖς νικῶσι μείζους τῶν σωμάτων ἀνεστάναι τοὺς ἀνδριάντας, ἀλλὰ ἐπιμελεῖσθαι τοὺς Ἑλλανοδίκας ὅπως μηδὲ εἷς ὑπερβάληται τὴν ἀλήθειαν, καὶ τὴν ἐξέτασιν τῶν ἀνδριάντων ἀκριβεστέραν γίγνεσθαι τῆς τῶν ἀθλητῶν ἐγκρίσεως. ὥστε ὅρα, ἔφη, μὴ αἰτίαν λάβωμεν ψεύδεσθαι ἐν τῷ μέτρῳ, κᾆτα ἡμῶν ἀνατρέψωσιν οἱ Ἑλλανοδίκαι τὴν εἰκόνα.

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Lucian, Ὑπὲρ τῶν Εἰκόνων, ed. Austin Morris Harmon. Text: The Greek Library, from the Perseus Digital Library and other open sources, CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: apostrophes normalised and the text divided into reading sections by Interlinea.
License: CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Source: https://thegreeklibrary.pages.lisn.upsaclay.fr/works/tlg0062.tlg040.local001/.