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ἐπὶ δ᾽ αὐλὸς ἀλέκτωρ Λύδιον ὕμνον ἀχέων.
ἐν δὲ Φρουροῖς τὸν ἀλεκτρυόνα Ἰδαῖον εἴρηκε σύριγγα διὰ τούτων

ῥοθεῖ δέ τοι σῦριγξ Ἰδαῖος ἀλέκτωρ.
ἐν δὲ τῷ β Φοίνικι ὁ αὐτὸς Ἴων φησίν

ἔκτυπον ἄγων βαρὺν αὐλὸν τρέχοντι ῥυθμῷ,3
οὕτω λέγων τῷ Φρυγίῳ: βαρὺς γὰρ οὗτος: παρ᾽: ὃ καὶ τὸ κέρας αὐτῷ προσάπτουσιν ἀναλογοῦν τῷ τῶν σαλπίγγων κώδωνι.

” ἐπὶ τούτοις τέλος ἐχέτω καὶ ἥδε ἡ βίβλος, ἑταῖρε Τιμόκρατες, ἱκανὸν εἰληφυῖα μῆκος.

[p. 318]1. ἀλλ᾽ ἐπεὶ πολὺς ὀντως λόγος συμποσίων πέρι διήντληται,1 ὦ Τιμόκρατες, ἐν τοῖς πρὸ τούτων, παρελίπομεν δὲ αὐτῶν τὰ χρησιμώτατα καὶ οὐ βαροῦντα τὴν ψυχήν, ὠφελοῦντα δὲ καὶ τρέφοντα κατὰ πανδαισίαν, ἅπερ ὁ θεῖος Ὅμηρος παρεισήγαγε, μνημονεύσω καὶ τὰ περὶ τούτων λεχθέντα ὑπὸ τοῦ πάντα ἀρίστου Μασουρίου. ἡμεῖς γὰρ κατὰ τὸν καλὸν Ἀγάθωνα:


τὸ μὲν πάρεργον ἔργον ὣς ποιούμεθα,

Athenaeus. The Deipnosophists. with an English Translation by. Charles Burton Gulick. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1927. 1.

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