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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    of Persieus the philosopher, because he was a companion of Antigonus the king. But Phylarchus, in tlie sixth book of his Histories, says that Nicesias the flatterer of Alexander, when he saw the king in convulsious from some medicine which he had taken, said—“ 0 king, what must we do, when even you gods suffer in this manner 1 ” and that Alexander, scarcely looking up, said—“What sort of gods? I am afraid rather we are hated by the gods.” And in his twenty-eighth book the same Phylarchus says that Apollophanes was a flatterer of Antigonus who was surnamed Epitropus, who took Lacedeemon, and who irsed to say that the fortune of Antigonus Aloxandrized. 59. But Euphantus, in the fourth book of his Histories, says that Callicrates was a flatterer of Ptolemy, the third king of Egypt, who was so subtle a flatterer tliat he not only bore an image of Ulysses on his seal, but that he also gave his childreu the names of Telegonus and Anticlea. And Polybius, in the thirteenth book of Ids Histories, says that Heraclides the Tarentine was a flatterer of the Philip whoso power was destroyed by the Piomans; and that it was he who overturned his whole kingdom. And in his four- teenth book, he says that Philo was a flatterer of Agalhocles the son of tEnanthe, and the companion of the king Ptolemy Philopator. And Baton of Sinope relates, in his book about the tjTanny of Hieronymus, that Thraso, who was surnamed Carcharus, was tlio flatterer of Hieron3’mus the tyrant of Syracuse, saying that he every day used to drink a great quantity of unmixed wine. But another flatterer, by name Osis, caused Thraso to be put to death by Hieronymus; and he persuaded Hieronymus himself to assume the diadem, and the purjde and all the rest of the royal apparel, which Diony- sius the tyrant was accustomed to wear. And Agatharchides, in the thirtieth book of his Histories, says—“ Hseresippus the Spartan was a man of no moderate iniquity, not even putting on any appearance of goodness; but having veiy ]>ersuasive flattering language, and being a very clever man at paying court to the rich as long as their fortune lasted. Sueli also was Heraclides the iMarouite, the flatterer of Seuthes the king of the I hracians, who is mentioned by Xenophon in the seventh book of the Anabasis. GO. But Tlieopompii.s, in the eighteenth book of his Histories, speaking of Nicostratus the Argive, and saying