Kitap 2
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The word ἄνηστις is used in the same sense as νῆστις, i.e. fasting (just as we find στάχυς and ἄσταχυς) by Cratinus, when he says— For you are not the first who's come to supper After a lengthened fast, And the word ὀξύπεινος is used by Diphilus for hungry— I'm glad when those who set them up as wise, Are naked seen and hungry. And Antiphanes says— A. At all events he's one complaint, For he is hungry ever. B. The keen Thessalian race you paint, Who can be sated never. And Eubulus says— Then Zethus was advised to seek the plain, The holy plain of Thebes; for there men sell The cheapest loaves and cakes. Again advice came to the great Amphion, The sweet musician, pointing out to him The famous Athens for his resting-place, Whose sons at hunger ne'er repine, but feed On air and sweetest hopes.
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The word μονοσιτῶν, eating once a day, occurs too in Alexis— When you meet with a man who takes only one meal, Or a poet who music pretends not to feel; The man half his life, the bard half his art, loses; And sound reason to call either living refuses. And Plato says, he not only was not content with one meal a-day, but sometimes he even dined twice the same day.
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We know that men used to call sweetmeats νωγαλεύματα. Araros says in the Campylion— These νωγαλεύματα are very nice. And Alexis says— In Thasian feasts his friends he meets, And νωγαλίζει, sweetmeats eats. And Antiphanes, in the Busiris, says— Grapes, and pomegranates, and palms, And other νώγαλα.
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Philonides used the word ἀπόσιτος for fasting; and Crobylus has the word αὐτόσιτος, writing παράσιτον, αὐτόσιτον.
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Eupolis, too, used ἀναρίστητος for without breakfast Crates has the word ἀναγκόσιτος, eating by force, and Nicostratus uses ἀναγκοσιτέω. There is a youth most delicately curl'd, Whom I do feed by force beneath the earth. And Alexis has the word ἀριστόδειπνον, breakfast-dinner— By whom the breakfast-dinner is prepared.
