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قراءة كتاب The Deipnosophists; or, Banquet of the Learned of Athenæus
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The Deipnosophists; or, Banquet of the Learned of Athenæus
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press'd,
To run like a coward away.
And Chrysippus says:—
Never shun a banquet gay,
Where the cost on others falls;
Let them, if they like it, pay
For your breakfasts, dinners, balls.
Where the cost on others falls;
Let them, if they like it, pay
For your breakfasts, dinners, balls.
And Antiphanes says:—
More blest than all the gods is he,
Whom every one is glad to see,
Who from all care and cost is free.
Whom every one is glad to see,
Who from all care and cost is free.
And again:—
Happy am I, who never have cause
To be anxious for meat to put in my jaws.
To be anxious for meat to put in my jaws.
I prepared all these quotations beforehand, and so came to the dinner, having studied beforehand in order to be able to pay my host a rent, as it were, for my entertainment.
For bards make offerings which give no smoke.
The ancients had a word, μονοφαγεῖν, applied to those who eat alone. And so Antiphanes says:—