and Sybaric: luxurious, magnificent, extravagant: for the Sybarites are addicted to luxury.[1]
For these men lived so luxuriously, that they even taught their horses to dance to a pipe.[2]
Also [sc. attested is the related verb] 'to Sybarize', [meaning] to live luxuriously, or to cause an uproar. Also [sc. attested is the phrase] 'Sybareian refrains', in Epicharmus.[3]
Also [sc. attested is the phrase] 'Sybaritic tales', [i.e.] those of Aesop.[4]
Also [sc. attested is the aorist infinitive] to have Sybarized, [meaning] to have practised the customs of the Sybarites.[5]
And [there is] a saying: "a Sybarite through the street", in reference to those proceeding pompously [sobarw=s].[6]
"Sybarites were gluttons and addicted to luxury. So great was devotion to luxury among them that of the peoples abroad they regarded Ionians and Tyrrhenians [= Etruscans] with special affection, on account of the fact that the former were foremost among the Greeks, and the latter among the barbarians, in the extravagance of their way of life. [...] Among them Mindyrides,[7] it is said, excelled in luxury. For when Cleisthenes, the tyrant of Sicyon, had won in a chariot race and issued a proclamation requiring the attendance of those men who proposed to marry his daughter, who was considered of outstanding beauty, this [Mindyrides] put to sea from Sybaris in a ship with fifty oars, having as rowers his own household slaves, some of them fishermen, others fowlers. Upon coming into Sicyon, by the opulence of his equipage he surpassed not only the rival suitors but also the tyrant himself, even though the entire city joined him in vying for this honour. At the dinner after his arrival, when a certain man approached with the intention of reclining beside him, he remarked that he was there in accordance with the proclamation and would recline either with a lady of Cleisthenes’ [house] or alone.[8]