The Learned Banqueters
Of Athenaeus Of Naucratis: Book IX (original) (raw)
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Athenaeus
Ἡρόδοτος δ᾿ ἐν τῇ πρώτῃ φησὶν ὅτι ἐν Βαβυλῶνι ἐπὶ τοῦ χρυσοῦ βωμοῦ οὐκ ἔξεστι θύειν ὅτι μὴ γαλαθηνὰ μοῦνα. Ἀντιφάνης Φιλεταίρῳ·
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κομψός γε μικρὸς κρωμακίσκος | οὑτοσὶ γαλαθηνός.
Ἡνίοχος Πολυεύκτῳ·
ὁ βοῦς <ὁ> χαλκοῦς ἦν ἂν ἑφθὸς δεκάπαλαι, ὁ δ᾿ ἴσως γαλαθηνὸν τέθυκε τὸν χοῖρον λαβών.
καὶ Ἀνακρέων δέ φησιν·
οἷά τε νεβρὸν νεοθηλέα γαλαθηνὸν ὅς τ᾿ ἐν ὕλῃ κεροέσσης ἀπολειφθεὶς ἀπὸ μητρὸς ἐπτοήθη.
Κράτης Γείτοσι·
νῦν μὲν γὰρ ἡμῖν † παιδικῶν δαις † ὅκωσπερ ἀρνῶν ἐστι γαλαθηνῶν τε καὶ χοίρων.
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Σιμωνίδης δ᾿ ἐπὶ τοῦ | Περσέως τὴν Δανάην ποιεῖ λέγουσαν·
ὦ τέκος, οἷον ἔχω πόνον· σὺ δ᾿ ἀωτεῖς, γαλαθηνῷ δ᾿ ἤθεϊ κνοώσσεις.
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Book IX
Herodotus in his Book I (183.2) claims that nothing can be sacrificed on the gold altar in Babylon except sucklings. Antiphanes in The Man Who Loved His Comrades (fr. 214):
This here is a dainty little suckling piglet.
Heniochus in Polyeuctus (fr. 2):
The bronze bull178 would’ve been stewed ages ago; maybe he’s taken the suckling pig and sacrificed it.
Anacreon (PMG 408.1–3) as well says:
Just like a newborn suckling fawn, which was abandoned in the woods by its horned mother and is frightened.
Crates in Neighbors (fr. 1):
Because now for us † of sex with boys [corrupt] † just as it is of lambs and sucklings and pigs.
Simonides (PMG 543.7–9) represents Danae as saying about Perseus:179
Oh child, what grief I have! But you are asleep, and you slumber as a suckling does.
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DOI: 10.4159/DLCL.atheneus_grammarian-learned_banqueters.2007