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30. τῶν δ᾽ ἄλλων ποιητῶν ἔνιοι τὰς καθ᾽ αὑτοὺς πολυτελείας καὶ ῥᾳθυμίας ἀνέπεμπον ὡς οὔσας καὶ κατὰ τὰ Τρωικά. Αἰσχύλος γοῦν ἀπρεπῶς που παράγει μεθύοντας τοὺς Ἕλληνας, ὡς καὶ τὰς ἀμίδας ἀλλήλοις περικαταγνύναι. λέγει γοῦν

ὅδ᾽ ἐστὶν ὅς ποτ᾽ ἀμφ᾽ ἐμοὶ βέλος
γελωτοποιόν, τὴν κάκοσμον οὐράνην,
ἔρριψεν οὐδ᾽ ἥμαρτε: περὶ δ᾽ ἐμῷ κάρᾳ [p. 76]
πληγεῖσ᾽ ἐναυάγησεν ὀστρακουμένη,
χωρὶς μυρηρῶν τευχέων πνέουσ᾽ ἐμοί .
καὶ Σοφοκλῆς δὲ ἐν Ἀχαιῶν συνδείπνῳ:

ἀλλ᾽ ἀμφὶ θυμῷ τὴν κάκοσμον οὐράνην ἔρριψεν
οὐδ᾽ ἥμαρτε; περὶ δ᾽ ἐμῷ κάρᾳ
κατάγνυται τὸ τεῦχος οὐ μύρου πνέον.
ἐδειματούμην δ᾽ οὐ φίλης ὀσμῆς ὕπο.
Εὔπολις δὲ τὸν πρῶτον εἰσηγησάμενον τὸ τῆς ἀμίδος ὄνομα ἐπιπλήττει λέγων

Ἀλκιβιάδης
μισῶ λακωνίζειν, ταγηνίζειν δὲ κἂν πριαίμην.

β
πολλὰς δ᾽ οἶμαι νῦν βεβινῆσθαι.

Ἀλκιβιάδης
... ὃς δὲ πρῶτος ἐξεῦρεν τὸ πρῴ πιπίνειν,

β
πολλήν γε λακκοπρωκτίαν ἡμῖν ἐπίστασ᾽ εὑρών.

Ἀλκιβιάδης
εἶεν τίς εἶπεν ἀμίδα παῖ πρῶτος μεταξὺ πίνων;

β
Παλαμηδικόν γε τοῦτο τοὐξεύρημα καὶ σοφὸν σου.

παρ᾽ Ὁμήρῳ δὲ οἱ ἀριστεῖς κοσμίως δειπνοῦσιν ἐν Ἀγαμέμνονος. εἰ δ᾽ ἐν Ὀδυσσείᾳ φιλονεικοῦσιν Ἀχιλλεὺς καὶ Ὀδυσσεὺς καὶ Ἀγαμέμνων ‘χαῖρε νόῳ,’ ἀλλ᾽ ὠφέλιμοι αἱ φιλοτιμίαι ζητούντων εἰ λόγῳ ἢ μάχῃ αἱρεθῆναι δεῖ τὸ Ἴλιον. ἀλλ᾽ οὐδ᾽ ὅτε μνηστῆρας εἰσάγει μεθύοντας, οὐδὲ τότε τοιαύτην ἀκοσμίαν εἰσήγαγεν ὡς Σοφοκλῆς καὶ Αἰσχύλος πεποιήκασιν, ἀλλὰ πόδα βόειον ἐπὶ τὸν Ὀδυσσέα ῥιπτούμενον. [p. 78]

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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