Ἡρακλείδης δ᾽ ὁ Ποντικὸς ἐν τῷ περὶ Ἡδονῆς Σαμίους φησὶ καθ᾽ ὑπερβολὴν τρυφήσαντας διὰ τὴν πρὸς ἀλλήλους μικρολογίαν ὥσπερ Συβαρίτας τὴν πόλιν ἀπολέσαι. ’
οἱ δ᾽ αὔτως φοίτεσκον ὅπως πλοκάμους κτενίσαιντο
εἰς Ἥρας τέμενος, πεπυκασμένοι εἵμασι καλοῖς,
χιονέοισι χιτῶσι πέδον χθονὸς εὐρέος εἶχον [p. 372]
χρύσειαι δὲ κορύμβαι ἐπ᾽ αὐτῶν τέττιγες ὥς:
χαῖται δ᾽ ᾐωρεῦντ᾽ ἀνέμῳ χρυσέοις ἐνὶ δεσμοῖς,
δαιδάλεοι δὲ χλιδῶνες ἄρ᾽ ἀμφὶ βραχίοσιν ἦσαν,:.:.->..
τες ὑπασπίδιον πολεμιστήν.`
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‘30. περὶ δὲ τῆς Σαμίων τρυφῆς Δοῦρις ἱστορῶν παρατίθεται Ἀσίου ποιήματα, ὅτι ἐφόρουν χλιδῶνας περὶ τοῖς βραχίοσιν καὶ τὴν ἑορτὴν ἄγοντες τῶν ῾ Ἡραίων ἐβάδιζον κατεκτενισμένοι τὰς κόμας ἐπὶ τὸ μετάφρενον καὶ τοὺς ὤμους, τὸ δὲ νόμιμον τοῦτο μαρτυρεῖσθαι καὶ ὑπὸ παροιμίας τῆσδε ‘ βαδίζειν εἰς Ἡραῖον ἐμπεπλεγμένον.’ ἐστὶ δὲ τὰ τοῦ Ἀσίου ἔπη οὕτως ἔχοντα:
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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