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Thou art a bold rogue indeed, and meant no doubt, if you had chanced to fall into any part of the ocean, to have called it, as Icarus {157a} did, by your own name, and styled it the Menippean Sea.

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Sources & credits: Francklin

Francklin — Trips to the Moon (Lucian of Samosata, translated by Thomas Francklin) (author lived 120–180). Public Domain. Lucian of Samosata, translated by Thomas Francklin, Trips to the Moon; public domain in the US; text from Project Gutenberg #10430. Source

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