Volume 1

The Deipnosophists, or, Banquet of the learned, of Athenæus / literally translated by C.D. Yonge, B.A. ; with an appendix of poetical fragments, rendered into English verse by various authors, and a general index.

  • Athenaeus
Date:
1854
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Credit: The Deipnosophists, or, Banquet of the learned, of Athenæus / literally translated by C.D. Yonge, B.A. ; with an appendix of poetical fragments, rendered into English verse by various authors, and a general index. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    feast, Athcuscus, lias prepai'cd for us; and gradually sur- passing himself, like the orator at Athens, as lie warms with his subject, ho bounds on towards the end of the book in noble strides. 2. And the Deijmosophists who were present at this banquet were, Masyrius, an expounder of the law, and one who had been no superficial student of every sort of learning; Magnus . . . [Myrtilus] a poet, a man who in other branches of learning was inferior to no one, and who had devoted himself in no cai’cless manner to the whole circle of arts and Icaraing; for in everything which he discussed, he appeared as if that was the sole thing which he had studied; so great and so various was his learning from his childhood. And he was an iambic poet, iiiEerior to no one who has ever lived since the time of Archilochus. There were present also Flutarchus, and Leonidas of Elis, and uLmilianus the Mauri- tanian, and Ziiilus, all the most admirable of giummarians. And of pliilosopliera there were present Fontianus and Democritus, both of Nicomodia; men superior to all their contemporaries in the extent and variety of their learning; and FhUadelphus of I’tolemais, a man who had not only been bred up from his infancy in ])hilosophical speculation, but who was also a man of tho higliest reputation in every part of his life. Of tho Cynics, there was one whom he calls Cynulcus, who had not only two white dogs following him, as they did Telcraachus when he went to tho assembly, but a more numerous pack than even Aettoon had. And of rhetoricians there was a whole troop, in no i-espect inferior to the Cynics. And these last, as well, indeed, as every one else Avho ever opened his mouth, were run down by Uppianus tho Tyrian, who, on aecouut of tho everlasting questions Avhich ho keeps putting every hour in the streets, and Avalks, and booksellei-s’ shops, and baths, has got a name by which ho is better known than by liis real one, Ceitouceitus. This man had a rule of his own, to cat nothing without saying Kurai; V oJ Kilrai; In this way, “ Can we say of the Avord &pa, that it Ktirai, or is applicable to any part of the day? And is tho Avord piQvaog, or drunk, applicable to a man ? Can the AVord plirpu, or paunch, be applied to any eatable food 1 Is tbc name avaypoq a compound AVord applicable to a boar?”—And of physicians there Avero present Daphnus