title: Lucian, Volume I. Phalaris. Hippias or The Bath. Dionysus. Heracles. Amber or The Swans. The Fly. Nigrinus. Demonax. The Hall. My Native Land. Octogenarians. A True Story. Slander. The Consonants at Law. The Carousal (Symposium) or The Lapiths (Loeb Classical Library No. 14)
author: Lucian
description: Austin Morris Harmon (18781950) was Professor of Classics at Yale University.
zlib_text:  
  Lucian’s Trial in the Court of Vowels - tr. Fowler v. 12.11, www.philaletheians.co.uk, 23 November 2017 
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  Lucian of Samosata 
  Trial in the Court of Vowels 
  
  HELLENIC AND HELLENISTIC PAPERS 
  LUCIAN’S TRIAL IN THE COURT OF VOWELS 
  Lucian’s Trial in the Court of Vowels - tr. Fowler v. 12.11, www.philaletheians.co.uk, 23 November 2017 
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  Δίκη Συμφώνων 
  Lis Consonantium (or Iudicium Vocalium) 
  The Consonants at Law 
  From Fowler H.W. & Fowler F.G. (Tr.) The Works of Lucian of Samosata. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1905. 
  Vol. 1 of 4, pp. 26-30. Translated by H.W. Fowler 
  The consonant sigma sues the consonant tau for stealing words 
  from him. The case is heard by a jury of the seven vowels, a jeu 
  d’esprit. 
  Archon, Aristarchus of Phalerum 
  Seventh Pyanepsion 
  Court of the Seven Vowels 
  Action for assault with robbery 
  Sigma v. Tau 
  Plaintiff’s case — that the words in -ττ- are wrongfully withheld from him. 
  Vowels of the jury. — For some time this Mr. Tau’s 