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“42. φίλοινος δ᾽ ἐστὶν ὁ πρὸς οἶνον ἕτοιμος, φιλοπότης δὲ ὁ πρὸς πότους, κωθωνιστὴς δὲ ὁ μέχρι μέθης, πλεῖστον δὲ ἔπινε τῶν μὲν ἡρώων Νέστωρ ὁ τριγέρων: φανερῶς γὰρ αὐτὸς προσέκειτο τῶν ἄλλων μᾶλλον τῷ οἴνῳ καὶ τοῦ Ἀγαμέμνονος αὐτοῦ, ὃν ὡς πολυπότην ἐπιπλήσσει ὁ Ἀχιλλεύς. ὁ δὲ Νέστωρ καὶ τῆς μεγίστης μάχης ἐνεστηκυίας οὐκ ἀπέχεται τοῦ πίνειν. φησὶ γοῦν Ὅμηρος:

Νέστορα δ᾽ οὐκ ἔλαθεν ἰαχὴ πίνοντά περ ἔμπης.
καὶ μόνου σὲ τούτου τῶν ἡρώων τὸ ποτήριον ἡρμήνευκεν, ὡς τὴν Ἀχιλλέως ἀσπίδα. ἐστρατεύετο γάρ μετ᾽ αὐτοῦ καθάπερ καὶ τῆς ἀσπίδος ἐκείνης ἧς φησιν ὁ Ἕκτωρ καὶ μέχρι οὐρανοῦ ἥκειν τὸ κλέος, οὐκ ἂν ἁμάρτοι δέ τις καὶ τὸ ποτήριον αὐτοῦ λέγων φιάλην Ἄρεως κατὰ τὸν Ἀντιφάνους Καινέα, ἐν ᾧ λέγεται οὕτως:

εἶτ᾽ ἤδη δὸς φιάλην Ἄρεως, κατὰ Τιμόθεον, ξυστόν τε βέλος.
ἀλλὰ μὴν καὶ διὰ τὴν φιλοποσίαν ὁ Νέστωρ καὶ παρἈχιλλέως φιάλην λαμβάνει δῶρον ἐν τῷ ἐπὶ Πατρόκλῳ ἐπιτελουμένῳ ἀγῶνι, οὐχ ὅτι ἀκονιτὶ τῷ νικηθέντι ἔδωκε δέπας ὁ Ἀχιλλεύς τοῖς γὰρ φιλοπόταις οὐ παρέπεται τὸ νικᾶν διὰ τὸ ῥᾴθυμον [p. 464] ἢ ὅτι διὰ δίψαν μάλιστα λείπονται οἱ πύκται διὰ τὸ βαρεῖσθαι τὰς χεῖρας ἀνατείνοντες. ὁ δὲ Εὔμηλος λαμβάνει θώρακα δραμὼν ἆθλον ἐπισφαλῶς καὶ ἀμυχθείς, ἀσφαλείας ὅπλον.

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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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