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“60. καὶ χελιδονίζειν δὲ καλεῖται παρὰ Ῥοδίοις ἀγερμός τις ἄλλος, περὶ οὗ φησι Θέογνις ἐν β᾽ περὶ τῶν ἐν Ῥόδῳ θυσιῶν γράφων οὕτως: ' εἶδος δέ τι τοῦ ἀγείρειν χελιδονίζειν ξ Ῥόδιοι καλοῦσιν, ὃ γίνεται τῷ Βοηδρομιῶνι μηνί. χελιδονίζειν δὲ λέγεται διὰ τὸ εἰωθὸς ἐπιφωνεῖσθαι:

ἦλθ᾽, ἦλθε χελιδὼν
καλὰς ὧρας ἄγουσα,
καὶ καλοὺς ἐνιαυτούς,
ἐπὶ γαστέρα λευκά,
κἠπὶ νῶτα μέλαινα,
παλάθαν σὺ προκύκλει
ἐκ πίονος οἴκου
οἴνου τε δέπαστρον
τυρῶν: τε κάνυστρον.
καὶ πύρωνα χελιδὼν
καὶ λεκιθίταν
οὐκ ἀπωθεῖται, πότερ᾽: ἀπίωμες ἢ λαβώμεθα;
εἰ μέν τι δώσεις: εἰ δὲ μή, οὐκ ἐάσομες,
ἢ τὰν θύραν φέρωμες ἢ τὸ ὑπέρθυρον
ἢ τὰν γυναῖκα τὰν ἔσω καθημέναν:
μικρὰ μὲν ἐστι, ῥᾳδίως νιν οἴσομες.
ἂν δὴ φέρῃς τι,
μέγα δή τι φέροις.
ἄνοιγ᾽ ἄνοιγε τὰν θύραν χελιδόνι:
οὐ γὰρ γέροντές ἐσμεν, ἀλλὰ παιδία.
τὸν δὲ ἀγερμὸν τοῦτον κατέδειξε πρῶτος [p. 132] Κλεόβουλος ὁ Λίνδιος ἐν Λίνδῳ χρείας γενομένης συλλογῆς χρημάτων.

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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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