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“ ποιοῦντας. ἔπαυσεν οὖν αὐτοὺς τούτων Κλέομις ὁ τύραννος, ὁ καὶ τὰς μαστροποὺς τὰς εἰθισμένας προαγωγεύειν τὰς ἐλευθέρας γυναῖκας καὶ τρεῖς ἢ τέτταρας τὰς ἐπιφανέστατα πορνευομένας ἐνδήσας εἰς σάκκους καταποντίσαι τισὶν προστάξας καὶ Ἕρμιππος δὲ ἐν τοῖς περὶ τῶν ἑπτὰ σοφῶν Περίανδρον τὸ αὐτὸ ποιῆσαι. ἐν δὲ τῇ δευτέρᾳ τῶν Φιλιππικῶν Ἰλλυριοί,' φησί, ' δειπνοῦσι καθήμενοι καὶ πίνουσιν, ἄγουσι δὲ καὶ τὰς γυναῖκας εἰς τὰς συνουσίας: καὶ καλὸν αὐταῖς προπίνειν οἷς ἂν τύχωσι τῶν παρόντων, ἐκ δὲ τῶν συμποσίων αὗται τοὺς ἄνδρας ἀπάγουσι. καὶ κακόβιοι δὲ πάντες εἰσὶ καὶ ζώννυνται τὰς κοιλίας ζώναις πλατείαις ὅταν πίνωσι. καὶ τοῦτο μὲν πρῶτον
[p. 508] μετρίως ποιοῦσιν, ἐπειδὰν δὲ σφοδρότερον πίνωσι, μᾶλλον αἰεὶ συνάγουσι τὴν ζώνην. Ἀρδιαῖοι δέ, φησί, κέκτηνται προσπελατῶν ὥσπερ εἱλώτων τριάκοντα μυριάδας. καθ᾽ ἑκάστην δὲ ἡμέραν μεθύουσιν καὶ ποιοῦνται συνουσίας καὶ διάκεινται πρὸς ἐδωδὴν καὶ πόσιν ἀκρατέστερον. διὸ καὶ
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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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