Lucian

(loo's he-ăn,) [L. LUCIANUS,] aGreek author,B.at Samosata abt. 120 A. D. After teaching rhetoric in Gaul for many years, he settled in Athens, in which city he died. His works, eminent for broad, satirical humor, are mostly in the form of dialogues, pregnant with ridicule of philosophy and pagan mythology, and sometimes erring on the score of delicacy. [s. 559]