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περὶ δὲ ΘΕΤΤΑΛΩΝ λέγων ἐν τῇ
τετάρτῃ ῾ib. 286' 'φησὶν ὅτι ‘ζῶσιν οἳ μὲν σὺν ταῖς
ὀρχηστρίσιν καὶ ταῖς αὐλητρίσιν διατρίβοντες, οἳ δ᾽
ἐν κύβοις καὶ πότοις καὶ ταῖς τοιαύταις ἀκολασίαις
διημερεύοντες, καὶ μᾶλλον σπουδάζουσιν ὅπως ὄψων
παντοδαπῶν τὰς τραπέζας παραθήσονται πλήρεις ἢ τὸν
αὑτῶν βίον ὅπως παρασχήσονται κεκοσμημένον. Φαρσάλιοι δὲ πάντων, φησίν, ἀνθρώπων εἰσὶν ἀργότατοι
καὶ πολυτελέστατοι.' ὡμολόγηνται δ᾽ οἱ Θετταλοί, ὡς
καὶ Κριτίας φησί ῾FHG II 69',' πάντων Ἑλλήνων
πολυτελέστατοι γεγενῆσθαι περί τε τὴν δίαιταν καὶ τὴν
ἐσθῆτα: ὅπερ αὐτοῖς αἴτιον ἐγένετο κατὰ τῆς Ἑλλάδος
ἐπαγαγεῖν τοὺς Πέρσας, ζηλώσαντας τὴν τούτων τρυφὴν καὶ πολυτέλειαν. περὶ δὲ ΑΙΤΩΛΩΝ Πολύβιος
μὲν ἐν τρισκαιδεκάτῃ Ἱστοριῶν ῾c. 1, 1' 'φησιν ὡς διὰ
τὴν τῶν πολέμων συνέχειαν καὶ τὴν τῶν βίων πολυτέλειαν κατάχρεοι ἐγένοντο. Ἀγαθαρχίδης δ᾽ ἐν δωδεκάτῃ Ἱστοριῶν ῾FHG III 192' '‘Αἰτωλοί, φησί, τοσούτῳ
τῶν λοιπῶν ἑτοιμότερον ἔχουσι πρὸς θάνατον ὅσῳπερ
καὶ ζῆν πολυτελῶς [καὶ] ἐκτενέστερον ζητοῦσι τῶν
ἄλλων.'
Athenaeus. Deipnosophistae. Kaibel. In Aedibus B.G. Teubneri. Lipsiae. 1887.
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