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6. εἰς ταῦτα, ὦ ἑταῖρε Τιμόκρατες, ἀποβλέπων τίνι συγκρῖναι ἔχεις τῶν Ἑλληνικῶν δείπνων τὸ προκείμενον τοῦτο συμπόσιον; ὁπότε καὶ Ἀντιφάνης ὁ κωμῳδιοποιὸς ἐν Οἰνομάῳ ἢ Πέλοπι διαπαίζων ἔφη:

τί δ᾽ ἂν Ἕλληνες μικροτράπεζοι,
φυλλοτρῶγες δράσειαν; ὅπου
τέτταρα λήψῃ κρέα μίκρ᾽ ὀβολοῦ.
παρὰ δ᾽ ἡμετέροις προγόνοισιν ὅλους
βοῦς ὤπτων, ὗς,2 ἐλάφους, ἄρνας:
τὸ τελευταῖον δὲ ὁ μάγειρος ὅλον
τέρας ὀπτήσας μεγάλῳ βασιλεῖ
θερμὴν παρέθηκε κάμηλον.
ὁ Ἀριστοφάνης δ᾽ ἐν Ἀχαρνεῦσι καὶ αὐτὸς τῶν βαρβάρων ἐμφανίζων τὴν μεγαλειότητά φησιν:

πρ. εἶτ᾽ ἐξένιζε παρετίθει θ᾽ ἡμῖν ὅλους
ἐκ κριβάνου βοῦς. δικ. καὶ τίς εἶδε πώποτε
βοῦς κριβανίτας; τῶν ἀλαζονευμάτων.
πρ. καὶ ναὶ μὰ Δί᾽ ὄρνιν τριπλάσιον Κλεωνύμου
παρέθηκεν ἡμῖν ὄνομα δ᾽ ἦν αὐτῷ φέναξ.
Ἀναξανδρίδης δ᾽ ἐν Πρωτεσιλάῳ διασύρων τὸ τῶν Ἰφικράτους γάμων συμπόσιον, ὅτε ἤγετο [p. 102] τὴν Κότυος τοῦ Θρᾳκῶν βασιλέως θυγατέρα, φησί:

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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