"Lucian"@en . . . . . . . . . . . . . "Lucian of Samosata (/\u02C8lu\u02D0\u0283\u0259n, \u02C8lu\u02D0si\u0259n/; Ancient Greek: \u039B\u03BF\u03C5\u03BA\u03B9\u03B1\u03BD\u1F78\u03C2 \u1F41 \u03A3\u03B1\u03BC\u03BF\u03C3\u03B1\u03C4\u03B5\u03CD\u03C2, Latin: Lucianus Samosatensis; c.\u2009AD 125 \u2013 after AD 180) was a rhetorician and satirist who wrote in the Greek language. He is noted for his witty and scoffing nature.Although he wrote solely in Greek, mainly Attic Greek, he was ethnically Assyrian.Lucian claimed to be a native speaker of a \"barbarian tongue\" (Double Indictment, 27) which was most likely Syriac, a dialect of Aramaic."@en . . . . . . . "Lucian of Samosata"@en . . . . "Writer:rhetorician andsatirist" . . . . . . "0120Z"^^ . "0180Z"^^ . .