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58. περὶ δὲ τῆς τοῦ ἀνθοσμίου οἴνου σκευασίας [p. 140] Φαινίας ὁ Ἐρέσιός φησι τάδε: ‘ γλεύκει παραχεῖται παρὰ χοῦς πεντήκοντα εἷς θαλάσσης καὶ γίνεται ἀνθοσμίας.’ καὶ πάλιν ‘ἀνθοσμίας γίνεται ἐκ νέων ἀμπέλων ἰσχυρότερος ἢ ἐκ παλαιῶν.’ : ἑξῆς τέ φησι : ‘ τὰς ὀμφακώδεις συμπατήσαντες ἀπέθεντο καὶ ἀνθοσμίας ἐγένετο.’ Θεόφραστος δ᾽ ἐν Θάσῳ φησὶ τὸν ἐν τῷ πρυτανείῳ διδόμενον θαυμαστὸν εἶναι τὴν ἡδονὴν ἠρτυμένος γάρ ἐστιν. ‘ ἐμβάλλουσι γὰρ εἰς τὸ κεράμιον σταῖς μέλιτι φυράσαντες, ὥστε τὴν ὀσμὴν ἀπ᾽ αὐτοῦ, τὴν δὲ γλυκύτητα ἀπὸ τοῦ σταιτὸς λαμβάνειν τὸν οἶνον’ καὶ ἑξῆς δέ φησιν ‘ἐάν τις κεράσῃ σκληρὸν καὶ εὔοσμον μαλακῷ καὶ ἀόσμῳ, καθάπερ τὸν Ἡρακλεώτην καὶ τὸν Ἐρυθραῖον, τοῦ μὲν τὴν μαλακότητα, τοῦ δὲ τὴν εὐοσμίαν παρεχομένου.’ μυρίνης δὲ οἶνος κεῖται παρὰ Ποσειδίππῳ:

διψηρὸς ἄτοπος ὁ μυρίνης ὁ τίμιος.
καὶ Ἑρμῆς δ᾽ εἶδος πόσεως παρὰ Στράττιδι.

Χαιρέας δὲ ἐν Βαβυλῶνι οἶνόν φησι γίνεσθαι
τὸν καλούμενον νέκταρ.

ἦν ἄρ᾽ ἔπος τόδ᾽ ἀληθές, ὅ τ᾽ οὐ μόνον ὕδατος αἶσαν,
ἀλλά τι καὶ χλεύης οἶνος ἔχειν ἐθέλει.
οὐδὲν ἀπόβλητον Διονύσιον, οὐδὲ γίγαρτον,
ὁ Κεῖός φησι ποιητής.

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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