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Headword:
Aristoxenos
Adler number: alpha,3928
Translated headword: Aristoxenus, Aristoxenus
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [
Aristoxenus] of Cyrene; [the man] who because of his unsurpassable luxuriance used to water the lettuces in his garden with honeyed wine in the evenings, and used to say that green flatcakes were [thus] being supplied to him.
Greek Original:Aristoxenos, Kurênaios: hostis hupo tês anuperblêtou truphês tas en tôi kêpôi thridakas oinomeliti hesperas epotize, kai chlôrous plakountas elegen anapempesthai hautôi.
Notes:
Abridged from
Athenaeus,
Deipnosophists 1.7C (1.12 Kaibel).
Aristoxenus of Cyrene was a hedonist philosopher, not to be confused with his namesake
alpha 3297.
Keywords: agriculture; biography; botany; ethics; food; geography; philosophy
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 15 February 2002@11:30:20.
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