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 Lucian's death is shrouded in mystery. The Suda, a Byzantine encyclopedia written many centuries after Lucian, hints that he died by being torn to pieces by dogs, which is doubted by many scholars. The text is here:
-Lucian of Samosata, nicknamed blasphemer or slanderer, or better to say godless, because in his dialogues he ridiculed the things said about the divine. He lived in the time of the Emperor Trajan and later. Early in his career this man was a lawyer in Syrian Antioch, but, after proving unsuccessful at this, he turned to writing and wrote endlessly. **The story goes that he was killed by dogs, because he turned his savagery against the truth (i.e. Christianity); for in his "Life of Peregrinus" he attacked Christianity and slandered Christ himself, the scoundrel.** Wherefore he paid sufficient penalty for his rage in this life, but in the life to come he will inherit with Satan a share of the Eternal Fire.
+> Lucian of Samosata, nicknamed blasphemer or slanderer, or better to say godless, because in his dialogues he ridiculed the things said about the divine. He lived in the time of the Emperor Trajan and later. Early in his career this man was a lawyer in Syrian Antioch, but, after proving unsuccessful at this, he turned to writing and wrote endlessly. **The story goes that he was killed by dogs, because he turned his savagery against the truth (i.e. Christianity); for in his "Life of Peregrinus" he attacked Christianity and slandered Christ himself, the scoundrel.** Wherefore he paid sufficient penalty for his rage in this life, but in the life to come he will inherit with Satan a share of the Eternal Fire.
 Quote from "The On-Line Suda", entry Lambda 683, http://www.stoa.org, 5 May 1999.