1. lucian a Greek writer, born in Samosata, in Syria, in the early part of the 2nd century; he travelled much in his youth; acquired a cynical view of the world, and gave himself to ridicule the philosophical sects and the pagan mythology; his principalwritings consist of "Dialogues," of which the "Dialogues of the Dead" are the best known, the subjectbeing one affording him scope for exposing the vanity of human pursuits; he was an out and out sceptic, foundnothingworthy of reverence in heaven or on earth.
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