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73. ἔτι τοῦ Οὐλπιανοῦ τοιαῦτά τινα παίζοντος ὁ Κύνουλκος ἀνέκραγεν ‘ἄρτου δεῖ καὶ οὐ τοῦ [p. 12] Μεσσαπίων βασιλέως λέγω τοῦ ἐν Ἰαπυγίᾳ, περὶ οὗ καὶ σύγγραμμά ἐστι Πολέμωνι. μνημονεύει δ᾽ αὐτοῦ καὶ Θουκυδίδης ἐν ζ᾽ καὶ Δημήτριος ὁ κωμῳδιοποιὸς ἐν τῷ ἐπιγραφομένῳ δράματι Σικελία διὰ τούτων:

κἀκεῖθεν εἰς τὴν Ἰταλίαν ἀνέμῳ Νότῳ
διεβάλομεν τὸ πέλαγος εἰς Μεσσαπίους:
ἄρτος δ᾽ ἀναλαβὼν ἐξένισεν ἡμᾶς καλῶς.
β. ξένος γε χαρίεις. α. ἦν ἐκεῖ ... μέγας
καὶ λαμπρὸς ἦν.
οὐ τούτου οὖν τοῦ Ἄρτου ὁ νῦν καιρὸς ἦν, ἀλλὰ τῶν εὑρημένων ὑπὸ τῆς Σιτοῦς καλουμένης Δήμητρος καὶ Ἱμαλίδος, οὕτως γὰρ ἡ θεὸς παρὰ Συρακοσίοις τιμᾶται, ὡς ὁ αὐτὸς Πολέμων ἱστορεῖ ἐν τῷ περὶ τοῦ Μορύχου. ἐν δὲ τῷ α᾽ τῶν πρὸς Τίμαιον ἐν Σκώλῳ φησὶ τῷ Βοιωτιακῷ Μεγαλάρτου καὶ Μεγαλομάζου ἀγάλματα ἱδρῦσθαι.’ ἐπεὶ δὲ ἤδη ἄρτοι εἰσεκομίζοντο καὶ πλῆθος ἐπ᾽ αὐτοῖς παντοδαπῶν βρωμάτων, ἀποβλέψας εἰς αὐτὰ ἔφη:

τοῖς ἄρτοις ὅσας
ἱστᾶσι παγίδας οἱ ταλαίπωροι βροτοί,
φησὶν Ἄλεξις ἐν τῇ Εἰς τὸ φρέαρ. ἡμεῖς οὖν εἴπωμέν τι καὶ περὶ ἄρτων.

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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    • A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities (1890), BA´LNEAE
    • Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), AEDEPSUS
    • Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), HALE´SION
    • Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), THY´AMIS
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