ἐπ᾽ ἀλφίτου πίνοντα τοῦ θέρους ποτὲὁ δ᾽ αὐτὸς ἱστορεῖ κἀν Θηράσι ταῖς νήσοις ἐπιπάττοντας λέκιθον ἀντὶ ἀλφίτου πίνειν, καὶ λέγεσθαι ταύτην τὴν πόσιν καλλίονα τῆς ἐξ ἀλφίτων.
ἰδὼν Σέλευκον ἡδέως τὸν βασιλέα
ἔγραψα καὶ παρέδειξα τοῖς πολλοῖς ὅτι
κἂν τὸ τυχὸν ᾖ πραγμάτιον ἢ σφόδρ᾽ εὐτελές,
σεμνὸν δύναται τοῦθ᾽ ἡ δύναμις ἡ 'μὴ ποιεῖν.
‘γέροντα Θάσιον τόν τε γῆς ἀπ᾽ Ἀτθίδος
ἑσμὸν μελίσσης τῆς ἀκραχόλου γλυκὺν
συγκυρκανήσας ἐν σκύφῳ χυτῆς λίθου,
Δήμητρος ἀκτῇ πᾶν γεφυρώσας ὑγρόν,
κατῃσίμωσα πῶμα, καύματος λύσιν.'
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ἔπινον
[οἱ] πολλοὶ καὶ ἄλφιτα ἐπιβάλλοντες τῷ οἴνῳ, ὡς ὁ
Δελφὸς Ἡγήσανδρος φησίν ῾FHG IV 418'.' Ἐπίνικος
γοῦν, Μνησιπτολέμου ἀνάγνωσιν ποιησαμένου τῶν ἱστοριῶν, ἐν αἷς ἐγέγραπτο ὡς Σέλευκος ἐπηλφίτωσε, γράψας
δρᾶμα Μνησιπτόλεμον καὶ κωμῳδῶν αὐτὸν καὶ περὶ
τῆς πόσεως ταῖς ἐκείνου χρώμενος φωναῖς ἐποίησε
λέγοντα ῾IV 505 M':'
Athenaeus. Deipnosophistae. Kaibel. In Aedibus B.G. Teubneri. Lipsiae. 1887.
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