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πάντας ἐψυχαγώγησεν: ἦν δὲ διθυραμβοποιός. καὶ ὁ νυμφίος ‘ Φιλόξενε,’ εἶπε, ‘καὶ αὔριον ὧδε δειπνήσεις;’ καὶ ὁ Φιλόξενος ‘ἂν ὄψον,’ ἔφη, ‘μὴ πωλῇ τις.’ 10. Θεόφιλος δέ φησιν ‘ οὐχ ὥσπερ Φιλόξενον τὸν Ἐρύξιδος: ἐκεῖνος γάρ ὡς ἔοικεν, ἐπιμεμφόμενος τὴν φύσιν εἰς τὴν ἀπόλαυσιν ηὔξατό ποτε γεράνου τὴν φάρυγγα σχεῖν ἀλλὰ πολὺ μᾶλλον ἵππον ὅλως ἢ βοῦν ἢ κάμηλον ἢ ἐλέφαντα δεῖ σπουδάζειν γενέσθαι. οὕτω γὰρ καὶ αἱ ἐπιθυμίαι καὶ αἱ ἡδοναὶ πολλῷ μείζους καὶ σφοδρότεραι: πρὸς γὰρ τὰς δυνάμεις ποιοῦνται τὰς ἀπολαύσεις.’ Κλέαρχος δὲ Μελάνθιόν φησι τοῦτ᾽ εὔξασθαι
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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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