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““25. Θεόφραστος δ᾽ ἐν τῷ πρὸς Κάσανδρον περὶ βασιλείας εἰ γνήσιον τὸ σύγγραμμα: πολλοὶ γὰρ αὐτό φασιν εἶναι Σωσιβίου, εἰς ὃν Καλλίμαχος ὁ ποιητὴς ἐπίνικον ἐλεγειακὸν ἐποίησεν τοὺς Περσῶν φησι βασιλεῖς ὑπὸ τρυφῆς προκηρύττειν
τοῖς ἐφευρίσκουσί τινα καινὴν ἡδονὴν ἀργυρίου πλῆθος. Θεόπομπος δ᾽ ἐν τῇ τριακοστῇ καὶ πέμπτῃ τῶν ἱστοριῶν τὸν Παφλαγόνων φησὶ βασιλέα Θῦν ἑκατὸν πάντα παρατίθεσθαι δειπνοῦντα ἐπὶ τὴν τράπεζαν ἀπὸ βοῶν ἀρξάμενον καὶ ἀναχθέντα αἰχμάλωτον ὡς βασιλέα καὶ ἐν φυλακῇ ὄντα πάλιν τὰ αὐτὰ παρατίθεσθαι ζῶντα λαμπρῶς, διὸ καὶ ἀκούσαντα Ἀρταξέρξην εἰπεῖν ὅτι οὕτως αὑτῷ δοκοίη ζῆν ὡς ταχέως
ἀπολούμενος. ὁ δ᾽ αὐτὸς Θεόπομπος ἐν τῇ τεσσαρεσκαιδεκάτῃ τῶν Φιλιππικῶν
“ ὅταν, φησί, βασιλεὺς εἴς τινας ἀφίκηται τῶν ἀρχομένων, εἰς τὸ δεῖπνον αὐτοῦ δαπανᾶσθαι εἴκοσι τάλαντα, ποτὲ δὲ καὶ τριάκοντα: οἱ δὲ καὶ πολὺ πλείω δαπανῶσιν. ἑκάσταις γὰρ τῶν πόλεων κατὰ τὸ μέγεθος ὥσπερ ὁ φόρος καὶ τὸ δεῖπνον ἐκ παλαιοῦ τεταγμένον ἐστίν.”
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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