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30. ἀνθῶν δὲ στεφανωτικῶν μέμνηται ὁ μὲν τὰ Κύπρια Ἔπη πεποιηκὼς Ἡγησίας ἢ Στασῖνος: Δημοδάμας γὰρ ὁ Ἁλικαρνασσεὺς ἢ Μιλήσιος ἐν τῷ περὶ Ἁλικαρνασσοῦ Κυπρία Ἁλικαρνασσέως αὐτὰ εἶναί φησι ποιήματα, λέγει δ᾽ οὖν ὅστις ἐστὶν ὁ ποιήσας αὐτὰ ἐν τῷ α᾽ οὑτωσί

εἵματα μὲν χροὶ ἕστο τά οἱ Χάριτές τε καὶ Ὧραι
ποίησαν καὶ ἔβαψαν ἐν ἄνθεσιν εἰαρινοῖσιν,
οἷα φοροῦσ᾽Σ321 ὧραι, ἔν τε κρόκῳ ἔν θ᾽ ὑακίνθῳ
ἔν τε ἴῳ θαλέθοντι ῥόδου τ᾽ ἐνὶ ἄνθει καλῷ, [p. 156]
ἡδέι νεκταρέῳ, ἒν τ᾽ ἀμβροσίαις καλύκεσσιν
ναρκίσσου ... καὶ λειρίου ... δἶ Ἀφροδίτη
ὥραις παντοίαις τεθυωμένα εἵματα ἕστο.
οὗτος ὁ ποιητὴς καὶ τὴν τῶν στεφάνων χρῆσιν εἰδὼς φαίνεται δι᾽ ὧν λέγει:

ἣ δὲ σὺν ἀμφιπόλοισι φιλομμειδὴς Ἀφροδίτη . . ,
πλεξάμεναι στεφάνους εὐώδεας ἄνθεα γαίης
ἂν κεφαλαῖσιν ἔθεντο θεαὶ λιπαροκρήδεμνοι,
νύμφαι καὶ Χάριτες, ἅμα δὲ χρυσῆ Ἀφροδίτη,
καλὸν ἀείδουσαι κατ᾽ ὄρος πολυπιδάκου Ἴδης.

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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