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18. σταθμήσας τὸ ἀπὸ τῆς ἐν Κορίνθῳ Πειρήνης καλουμένης ὕδωρ κουφότερον πάντων εὗρον τῶν κατὰ τὴν Ἑλλάδα, οὐ γὰρ Ἀντιφάνει τῷ κωμικῷ πεπίστευκα λέγοντι κατὰ πολλὰ τὴν ' Ἀττικὴν διαφέρουσαν τῶν ἄλλων καὶ ὕδωρ κάλλιστον ἔχειν, φησὶ γάρ:

οἷα δ᾽ ἡ χώρα φέρει
διαφέροντα πάσης, Ἱππόνικε, τῆς οἰκουμένης,
τὸ μέλι, τοὺς ἄρτους, τὰ σῦκα. β. σῦκα μέν, νὴ
τὸν Δία,
πάνυ φέρει. α. βοσκήματ᾽, ἔρια, μύρτα, θύμα, πυρούς, ὕδωρ,
ὥστε καὶ γνοίην ἂν εὐθὺς Ἀττικὸν πίνων ὕδωρ.
τὸ ὕδωρ ποταμοῦ σῶμά φησί που Εὔβουλος ὁ
κωμῳδιοποιὸς εἰρηκέναι Χαιρήμονα τὸν τραγικὸν

ἐπεὶ δὲ σηκῶν περιβολὰς ἠμείψαμεν
ὕδωρ τε ποταμοῦ σῶμα διεπεράσαμεν.
καὶ ἡμῶν δὲ πᾶσα δύναμις ἐξ ὑδάτων ἄρδεται. λ:ἐν Τήνῳ κρήνη ἐστὶν ἧς τῷ ὕδατι οἶνος οὐ μίγνυται. ῾ Ἡρόδοτος δὲ ἐν τετάρτῃ τὸν Ὕπανίν [p. 188] φησιν ἀπὸ μὲν τῶν πηγῶν φερόμενον ἐπὶ πέντε ἡμέρας βραχὺν εἶναι καὶ γλυκύν, μετὰ δὲ ἄλλων τεσσάρων ἡμερῶν πλόον πικρὸν γίνεσθαι ἐκδιδούσης εἰς αὐτὸν κρήνης τινὸς πικρᾶς. Θεόπομπος δὲ φησι περὶ τὸν Ἐριγῶνα ποταμὸν ὀξὺ εἶναι ὕδωρ καὶ τοὺς πίνοντας αὐτὸ μεθύσκεσθαι καθὰ καὶ τοὺς τὸν οἶνον.

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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