“ εἶδες τὴν Θασίαν ἅλμην οἰ̔̂ ἄττα βαύζει, [p. 248]
ὡς εὖ καὶ ταχέως ἀπετείσατο καὶ παραχρῆμα.
οὐ μέντοι παρὰ κωφὸν ὁ τυφλὸς ἔοικε λαλῆσαι, ” ὡς ὁ Κρατῖνος ἐν τοῖς Ἀρχιλόχοις ἔφη. ἐπιλανθανόμενος γὰρ ἐν οἷς ποιεῖται δικαστηρίοις τῶν καλῶν ἰάμβων αὐτοῦ τὰς ἐπιδείξεις ὑπὸ τῆς ἐμφύτου γαστριμαργίας καὶ ἡδυλογίας κολάβρους ἀναγινώσκει καὶ ‘ μέλη πάραυλα κἀκρότητα κύμβαλα.’ καὶ μετὰ τὰς καλὰς ταύτας ἀμουσολογίας περιέρχεται τὰς οἰκίας ἐξετάζων ὅπου δεῖπνα λαμπρὰ παρασκευάζεται, ὑπὲρ τὸν Ἀθηναῖον Χαιρεφῶντα ἐκεῖνον, περὶ οὗ φησιν Ἄλεξις ἐν Φυγάδι:οὐκ ὀκνεῖ δ᾽ ἀνὴρ οὗτος, καθάπερ καὶ ὁ καλὸς Μάγνος, καὶ ὑπερορίους ἀποδημίας ποιεῖσθαι τῆς γαστρὸς χάριν, ὡς ὁ αὐτὸς Ἄλεξις εἴρηκεν ἐν Συναποθνῄσκουσιν
αἰεὶ γ᾽ ὁ Χαιρεφῶν τιν᾽ εὑρίσκει τέχνην
καὶ νῦν πορίζεται γε τὰ δεῖπν᾽ ἀσύμβολα.
ὅπου γάρ ἐστιν ὁ κέραμος μισθώσιμος
ὁ τοῖς μαγείροις, εὐθὺς ἐξ ἑωθινοῦ
ἕστηκεν ἐλθών κἂν ἴδῃ μισθούμενον
εἰς ἑστίασιν, τοῦ μαγείρου πυθόμενος
τὸν ἑστιῶντα, τῆς θύρας χασμωμένης
ἂν ἐπιλάβηται, πρῶτος εἰσελήλυθεν.καὶ Θεόπομπος δ᾽ ἐν Ὀδυσσεῖ ἔφη:
ἐπὶ δεῖπνον εἰς Κόρινθον ἐλθὼν Χαιρεφῶν
ἄκλητος: ἤδη γὰρ πέτεται διαπόντιος:
οὕτω τι τἀλλότρι᾽ ἐσθίειν ἐστὶ γλυκύ.
Εὐριπίδου τἄρ᾽ ἐστὶν οὐ κακῶς ἔχον,
τἀλλότρια δειπνεῖν τὸν καλῶς εὐδαίμονα.
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58.
ταῦτα τοῦ Μάγνου ἑξῆς καταδραμόντος ἀποβλέψας ὁ Κύνουλκος εἰς τοὺς παρόντας τῶν φιλοσόφων ἔφη:
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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