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πῖν᾽ οἶνον τρυγίαν, ἐπεὶ οὐκ Ἀνθηδόνα ναίεις '
ἡ γὰρ ἐν Βοιωτοῖς οὐκ ἔστι πολύοινος ;’

Τὴν Καλαύρειαν1 Εἰρήνην τὸ παλαιὸν ὠνόμαζον ἀπὸ γυναικὸς Εἰρήνης, ἣν ἐκ Ποσειδῶνος καὶ Μελανθείας τῆς Ἀλφειοῦ γενέσθαι μυθολογοῦσιν. ὕστερον δὲ τῶν περὶ Ἄνθον2 καὶ Ὑπέραν3 αὐτόθι κατοικούντων, Ἀνθηδονίαν καὶ Ὑπέρειαν ἐκάλουν τὴν νῆσον. εἶχε δὲ ὁ χρησμὸς οὕτως, ὡς Ἀριστοτέλης φησί,

πῖν᾽ οἶνον τρυγίαν, ἐπεὶ οὐκ Ἀνθηδόνα ναίεις
οὐδ᾽ ἱερὰν Ὑπέραν, ὅθι γ᾽ ἄτρυγον4 οἶνον ἔπινες.

1 Καλαύρειαν the approved form, Bernardakis: Καλαυριὰν.

2 Ἄνθον as below: Ἄνθην. (The genders are confused in the mss. Ἄνθος is presumably masc. and Ὑπέρα fem. but cf. Athenaeus, 31 c.)

3 Ὑπέρα, etc., F.C.B.: Ὑπέρη, etc.

4 γ᾽ ἄτρυγου Wechel: ὅτι κἂν τρύγα.

Plutarch. Moralia. with an English Translation by. Frank Cole Babbitt. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1936. 4.

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