Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, ed. Grēgorios N. Vernardakēs, 7.1.2

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[2] τοιαῦτα τοῦ Νικίου διεξιόντος, ὁ γραμματικὸς 5 698e πρωτογένης ἔφη¹ συνεωρακέναι πρῶτον Ὅμηρον, ὅτι τῆς μὲν τροφῆς ὁ στόμαχος ἀγγεῖόν ἐστι, τοῦ δὲ πνεύματος ὁ βρόγχος, ὃν² ἀσφάραγον ἐκάλουν οἱ παλαιοί· διὸ καὶ τοὺς μεγαλοφώνους ἐρισφαράγους ἐπονομάζειν εἰώθασιν· εἰπὼν³ οὖν ὅτι τοῦ Ἕκτορος 10 ὁ Ἀχιλλεὺς ἤλασε

λευκανίην, ἵνα τε ψυχῆς ὤκιστος ὄλεθρος·

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οὐδʼ ἄρʼ ἀπʼ ἀσφάραγον μελίη τάμε χαλκοβάρεια,

ὄφρα τί μιν προτιείποι ἀμειβόμενος ἐπέεσσιν.

ὡς τὸν ἀσφάραγον ὄντα φωνῆς ἴδιον ὀχετὸν καὶ 15 πνεύματος, τὴν δὲ λευκανίην· ἐσέθηκα.

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Quaestiones Convivales. Plutarch. ed. Grēgorios N. Vernardakēs. Leipzig. 1892.

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Συμποσιακῶν προβλημάτων βιβλία (Greek) (Plutarch. Plutarchi Chaeronensis Moralia, Vol. IV. Vernardakēs, Grēgorios N., editor. Leipzig: Teubner, 1892.)

Translations (1)

Symposiacs Perseus (Plutarch. Plutarch's Morals, Vol. III. Goodwin, William W., editor; Creech, Thomas, translator. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company; Cambridge: Press of John Wilson and Son, 1874.) — 7.1.2 focus

[2] Nicias having done, Protogenes the grammarian subjoined, that Homer was the first that observed the stomach was the vessel of the food, and the windpipe (which the ancients called ἀσφάραγον) of the breath, and upon the same account they called those who had loud voices ἐρισφαράγους And when he describes how Achilles killed Hector, he says,

He pierced his weasand, where death enters soon;

and adds,

But not his windpipe, so that he could speak,¹

taking the windpipe for the proper passage of the voice and breath....

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Συμποσιακῶν προβλημάτων βιβλία

1. ἔφη Turnebus

2. ὁ R

3. εἶπεν W

4. Hom. X 325. 328. 329

5. locum mutilum supplet W ita: τὴν δὲ λευκανίην τροφῆς ἀγγεῖον λέγει ἐν τούτοις νῦν δὴ καὶ σίτου πασάμην καὶ αἴθοπα οἶνον λευκανίην ἐσίθηκα Sed in Hom. Ω 642 est: λαυκανίης καθέηκα Suppleverim: τὴν δὲ λευκανίην [ λέγει πόρον τροφῆς ὡς ἐν τούτοις νῦν δὲ καὶ σίτου - λευκανίης] καθέηκα Unde signavi lacunam

Plutarch Quaestiones Convivales 7.1.2

ed. Grēgorios N. Vernardakēs

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