Οὐρανίῃ μοῦνοι μὲν ἐλεύθεροι ἱεροεργοί,
ἀνδράσι παρ᾽ κείνοισιν ἐλεύθερον ἆμαρ ἔχοντες
δούλων δ᾽ οὔτις πάμπαν ἐσέρχεται οὐδ᾽ ἠβαιόν.
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44. τοσαῦτα τοῦ Μασουρίου διεξελθόντος περιηνέχθησαν ἡμῖν καὶ αἱ δεύτεραι καλούμεναι τράπεζαι, πολλάκις ἡμῖν διδόμεναι οὐ μόνον ταῖς τῶν Κρονίων ἡμέραις, ἐν αἷς Ῥωμαίων παισὶν ἔθος ἐστὶν ἑστιᾶν τοὺς οἰκέτας, αὐτοὺς τὰς τῶν οἰκετῶν ἀναδεχομένους λειτουργίας. Ἑλληνικὸν δὲ τοῦτο τὸ ἔθος: ἐν Κρήτῃ γοῦν τῇ τῶν Ἑρμαίων ἑορτῇ τὸ
ὅμοιον γίνεται, ὥς φησι Καρύστιος ἐν Ἰστορικοῖς Ὑπομνήμασιν. εὐωχουμένων γὰρ τῶν οἰκετῶν οἱ
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δεσπόται ὑπηρετοῦσιν πρὸς τὰς διακονίας, καὶ ἐν Τροιζῆνι δὲ μηνὶ Γεραιστίῳ: πανήγυρις δὲ τότε γίνεται πολυήμερος, ἧς ἐν μιᾷ οἱ δοῦλοι μετὰ τῶν πολιτῶν κοινῇ τε ἀστραγαλίζουσιν καὶ οἱ κύριοι τοὺς δούλους ἑστιῶσιν, ὡς ὁ αὐτός φησιν Καρύστιος
Βήρωσος. δ᾽ ἐν πρώτῳ Βαβυλωνιακῶν τῷ Λώῳ φησὶ μηνὶ ἑκκαιδεκάτῃ ἄγεσθαι ἑορτὴν Σάκαια προσαγορευομένην ἐν Βαβυλῶνι ἐπὶ ἡμέρας πέντε, ἐν αἷς ἔθος εἶναι ἄρχεσθαι τοὺς δεσπότας ὑπὸ τῶν οἰκετῶν ἀφηγεῖσθαί τε τῆς οἰκίας ἕνα αὐτῶν ἐνδεδυκότα στολὴν ὁμοίαν τῇ βασιλικῇ: ὃν καὶ καλεῖσθαι ζωγάνην. μνημονεύει τῆς ἑορτῆς
καὶ Κτησίας ἐν δευτέρῳ Περσικῶν. Κῷοι δὲ τοὐναντίον δρῶσιν, ὡς ἱστορεῖ Μακαρεὺς ἐν τρίτῳ Κῳακῶν: ὅταν γὰρ τῇ Ἥρᾳ θύωσιν, δοῦλοι οὐ παραγίνονται ἐπὶ τὴν εὐωχίαν. διὸ καὶ Φύλαρχον εἰρηκέναι:
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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