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τῶν δὲ προδρόμων καλουμένων σύκων ὁ αὐτὸς Θεόφραστος μνημονεύει ἐν ε# φυτικῶν αἰτίων οὕτως ῾1, 4':' ‘τῇ συκῇ ὅταν ἀὴρ ἐπιγένηται μαλακὸς καὶ ὑγρὸς καὶ θερμός, ἐξεκαλέσατο τὴν βλάστησιν: ὅθεν καὶ οἱ πρόδρομοι.' καὶ προελθὼν τάδε λέγει ῾1, 8':' ‘πάλιν δὲ τοὺς προδρόμους αἳ μὲν φέρουσιν, ἥ τε Λακωνικὴ καὶ ἡ λευκομφάλιος καὶ ἕτεραι πλείους, αἳ δ᾽ οὐ φέρουσι.' Σέλευκος δ᾽ ἐν Γλώσσαις πρῳτερικήν φησι καλεῖσθαι γένος τι συκῆς, ἥτις φέρει πρώιον τὸν καρπόν. διφόρου δὲ συκῆς μνημονεύει καὶ Ἀριστοφάνης ἐν Ἐκκλησιαζούσαις ῾707':'
ὑμᾶς δὲ τέως θρῖα λαβόντας
διφόρου συκῆς.
καὶ Ἀντιφάνης ἐν Σκληρίαις ῾II 96 K':'
ἔστι γὰρ παρ᾽ αὐτὴν τὴν δίφορον συκῆν κάτω.
ὁ Θεόπομπος δὲ ἐν τῇ πεντηκοστῇ τετάρτῃ τῶν ἱστοριῶν ῾FHG I 324' 'κατὰ τὴν Φιλίππου φησὶν ἀρχὴν περὶ τὴν Βισαλτίαν καὶ Ἀμφίπολιν καὶ Γραστωνίαν τῆς Μακεδονίας ἔαρος μεσοῦντος τὰς μὲν συκᾶς σῦκα, τὰς δ᾽ ἀμπέλους βότρυς, τὰς δ᾽ ἐλαίας ἐν ᾧ χρόνῳ βρύειν εἰκὸς ἦν αὐτὰς ἐλαίας ἐνεγκεῖν, καὶ εὐτυχῆσαι πάντα Φίλιππον. ἐν δὲ τῷ δευτέρῳ περὶ φυτῶν ὁ Θεόφραστος καὶ τὸν ἐρινεὸν εἶναί φησι δίφορον: οἳ δὲ καὶ τρίφορον, ὥσπερ ἐν Κέῳ.

Athenaeus. Deipnosophistae. Kaibel. In Aedibus B.G. Teubneri. Lipsiae. 1887.

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