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‘ τι φαγὼν ἠρκεῖτο καὶ ἐκοιμᾶτο. νῦν δέ, ὡς ὁ Θεόπομπος ἱστορεῖ ἐν τῇ πρώτῃ τῶν Φιλιππικῶν
, οὐδεὶς ἐστι καὶ τῶν μετρίως εὐπορουμένων ὅστις
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οὐ πολυτελῆ μὲν τράπεζαν παρατίθεται, μαγείρους δὲ καὶ θεραπείαν ἄλλην πολλὴν κέκτηται καὶ πλείω δαπανᾷ τὰ καθ᾽ ἡμέραν ἢ πρότερον ἐν ταῖς ἑορταῖς καὶ ταῖς θυσίαις ἀνήλισκον.’ Ἐπεὶ δὲ εἰς ἱκανὸν μῆκος προὔβη τὰ τῶν ἀπομνημονευθέντων, αὐτοῦ καταπαύσωμεν τὸν λόγον.
[p. 238]1. Επιτελουμένου δὲ ἥδη τοῦ δείπνου τῶν Φαγη σίων ἑορτὴν συντελεῖσθαι νομίσαντες οἱ κυνικοὶ πάντων μᾶλλον ηὐφραίνοντο. καὶ ὁ Κύνουλκος ἔφη: ‘ἕως ἡμεῖς δειπνοῦμεν, ὦ Οὐλπιανὲ λόγοις γὰρ ἑστιᾷ, προβάλλω σοι παρὰ τίνι εἴρηται Φαγήσια ἑορτὴ καὶ Φαγησιπόσια.’ καὶ ὃς ἀπορηθεὶς ἐπισχεῖν τε κελεύσας τοὺς παῖδας τὴν περιφορὰν καίτοι ἤδη οὔσης ἑσπέρας: ‘οὐ συμπεριφέρομαι, ὦ σοφώτατε ὥστε λέγειν σοὶ καιρός, ἵνα μᾶλλον καὶ δειπνήσῃς ἥδιον.’ καὶ ὃς ‘εἰ χάριν ὁμολογήσεις μαθών, λέξω.’ ὁμολογήσαντος δ᾽ ἔφη: ‘Κλέαρχος Ἀριστοτέλους μαθητής, Σολεὺς δὲ τὸ γένος, ἐν τῷ προτέρῳ περὶ γρίφων: κρατῶ γάρ καὶ τῆς λέξεως διὰ τὸ σφόδρα μοι εἶναι προσφιλῆ οὑτωσί πως εἴρηκε: ‘ φαγήσια, οἱ δὲ φαγησιπόσια προσαγορεύουσι τὴν ἑορτήν ἐξέλιπε δὲ αὕτη, καθάπερ ἡ τῶν ῥαψῳδῶν ἣν ἦγον ... καὶ τὴν τῶν Διονυσίων ἐν ᾗ παριόντες ἑκάστῳ
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τῶν θεῶν οἷον τιμὴν ἐπετέλουν τὴν ῥαψῳδίαν.’ ’
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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