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76. ὄξος. τοῦτο μόνον Ἀττικοὶ τῶν ἡδυσμάτων ἦδος καλοῦσι. κάλλιστον δ᾽ ὄξος εἶναί φησι Χρύσιππος ὁ φιλόσοφος τό τε Αἰγύπτιον καὶ τὸ Κνίδιον.Ἀριστοφάνης δὲ ἐν Πλούτῳ φησὶν

ὄξει διέμενος Σφηττίῳ.
Δίδυμος δ᾽ ἐξηγούμενος τὸ ἰαμβεῖόν φησιν ‘ἴσως διότι οἱ Σφήττιοι ὀξεῖς.’ μνημονεύει δέ που καὶ τοῦ ἐκ Κλεωνῶν ὄξους ὡς διαφόρου :

ἐν δὲ Κλεωναῖς ὀξίδες εἰσί.
καὶ Δίφιλος:

δειπνεῖ τε καταδύς, πῶς δοκεῖς, Λακωνικῶς, [p. 294]
ὄξους δὲ κοτύλην Β. πάξ. α. τί πάξ; β. ὀξὶς μέτρον
χωρεῖ τοσοῦτο τῶν Κλεωναίων.
Φιλωνίδης:

τὰ καταχύσματα
αὐτοῖσιν ὄξος οὐκ ἔχει.
Ὁ δὲ Ταραντῖνος ῾ Ἡρακλείδης ἐν τῷ Συμποσίῳ φησί: ‘τὸ ὄξος τινὰ τῶν ἐκτὸς συνιστάνει, παραπλησίως δὲ καὶ τὰ ἐν κοιλίᾳ, τὰ δ᾽ ἐν τῷ ὄγκῳ διαλύει, διὰ τὸ δηλονότι διαφόρους ἐν ἡμῖν μίγνυσθαι χυμούς.’ ἐθαυμάζετο δὲ καὶ τὸ Δεκελεικὸν ὄξος. Ἄλεξις

κοτύλας τέτταρας
ἀναγκάσας μεστὰς ἔμ᾽ αὐτίτου σπάσαι
ὄξους Δεκελεικοῦ δι᾽ ἀγορᾶς μέσης ἄγεις.
λεκτέον δὲ ὀξύγαρον διὰ τοῦ ῡ καὶ τὸ δεχόμενον αὐτὸ ἀγγεῖον ὀξύβαφον: ἐπεὶ καὶ Λυσίας ἐν τῷ κατὰ Θεοπόμπου αἰκίας εἴρηκεν ‘ ἐγὼ δ᾽ ὀξύμελι πίνω.’ οὕτως οὖν ἐροῦμεν καὶ ὀξυρόδινον.

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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