LYCINUS
Most of the company were drunk by then, and the room was full of uproar. Dionysodorus the rhetorician was making speeches, pleading first on one side and then on the other, and was getting applauded by the servants who stood behind him. Histiaeus the grammarian, who had the place next him, was reciting verse, combining the lines of Pindar and Hesiod and Anacreon in such a way as to make out of them a single poem and a very funny one, especially in the part where he said, as though foretelling what was going to happen:
They smote their shields together,
Iliad 4, 447.
and
Then lamentations rose, and vaunts of men.
Iliad 4, 450
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But Zenothemis was reading aloud from a closely written book that he had taken from his attendant.
Most of the company were drunk by then, and the room was full of uproar. Dionysodorus the rhetorician was making speeches, pleading first on one side and then on the other, and was getting applauded by the servants who stood behind him. Histiaeus the grammarian, who had the place next him, was reciting verse, combining the lines of Pindar and Hesiod and Anacreon in such a way as to make out of them a single poem and a very funny one, especially in the part where he said, as though foretelling what was going to happen:
Iliad 4, 447.
and
Iliad 4, 450
1
But Zenothemis was reading aloud from a closely written book that he had taken from his attendant.
They smote their shields together,
Then lamentations rose, and vaunts of men.
Symposium. Lucian of Samosata. Austin Morris Harmon (Translator). United States. Perseus 5.0.
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