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κληθεὶς ἐπὶ δεῖπνον ὁ παράσιτος Ἀρχεφῶν
ὑπὸ Πτολεμαίου τοῦ βασιλέως, ἡνίκα
κατέπλευσεν εἰς Αἴγυπτον ἐκ τῆς Ἀττικῆς,
ὄψου πετραίου παρατεθέντος ποικίλου
ἐπὶ τῆς τραπέζης καράβων τ᾽ ἀληθινῶν,
ἐπὶ πᾶσι λοπάδος τ᾽ εἰσενεχθείσης ἁδρᾶς,
ἐν ᾗ τεμαχιστοὶ τρεῖς ἐνῆσαν κωβιοί,
οὓς κατεπλάγησαν πάντες οἱ κεκλημένοι,
τῶν μὲν σκάρων ἀπέλαυε τῶν τριγλῶν θ᾽ ἅμα
καὶ φυκίδων ἐπὶ πλεῖον Ἀρχεφῶν πάνυ,
ἄνθρωπος ὑπὸ τῶν μαινίδων καὶ μεμβράδων
Φαληρικῆς ἀφύης τε διασεσαγμένος,
τῶν κωβιῶν δ᾽ ἀπέσχετ᾽ ἐγκρατέστατα,
πάνυ δὴ παραδόξου γενομένου τοῦ πράγματος
καὶ τοῦ βασιλέως πυθομένου τἀλκήνορος ‘μὴ
παρεόρακεν Ἀρχεφῶν τοὺς κωβιούς;’
ὁ κυρτὸς εἶπε, “πᾶν, μὲν οὖν τοὐναντίον,
Πτολεμαῖ᾽, ἑόρακε πρῶτος, ἀλλ᾽ οὐχ ἅπτεται,
τοὔψον δὲ σέβεται τοῦτο καὶ δέδοικέ πως:
οὐδ᾽ ἐστὶν αὐτῷ πάτριον ὄντ᾽ ἀσύμβολον
ἰχθὺν ἔχοντα ψῆφον ἀδικεῖν οὐδένα.”
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“44.
καὶ Ἀρχεφῶντος δὲ τοῦ παρασίτου μνημονεύων ὁ Μάχων 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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