ὁ Ζεύς μ᾽ ἐκάλεσε, Πέλοπί γ᾽ ἔρανον ἑστιῶν.
Β. ἦ παμπόνηρον ὄψον, ὦ 'τάν, ὁ γέρανος.
Α. ἀλλ᾽ οὔτι γέρανον, ἀλλ᾽ ἔρανόν <γά> τοι λέγω.
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οἶδα δὲ καὶ ἃ ὁ Ἑρμιονεὺς Λᾶσος ἔπαιξε περὶ
ἰχθύων, ἅπερ Χαμαιλέων ἀνέγραψεν ὁ Ἡρακλεώτης
ἐν τῷ περὶ αὐτοῦ τοῦ Λάσου συγγράμματι λέγων
ὧδε ῾fr. 12 Koepke':' τὸν Λᾶσόν φησι τὸν ὠμὸν ἰχθὺν
ὀπτὸν εἶναι φάσκειν. θαυμαζόντων δὲ πολλῶν ἐπιχειρεῖν λέγοντα ὡς ὃ ἔστιν ἀκοῦσαι τοῦτό ἐστιν
ἀκουστὸν καὶ ὃ ἔστιν νοῆσαι τοῦτό ἐστιν νοητόν:
ὡσαύτως οὖν καὶ ὃ ἔστιν ἰδεῖν τοῦτ᾽ εἶναι ὀπτόν:
ὥστ᾽ ἐπειδὴ τὸν ἰχθὺν ἦν ἰδεῖν, ὀπτὸν αὐτὸν εἶναι.
καὶ παίζων δέ ποτε ἰχθὺν παρά τινος τῶν ἁλιέων ὑφείλετο καὶ λαβὼν ἔδωκέ τινι τῶν παρεστώτων. ὁρκίζοντος δὲ ὤμοσεν μήτ᾽ αὐτὸς ἔχειν τὸν ἰχθὺν μήτ᾽ ἄλλῳ
συνειδέναι λαβόντι, διὰ τὸ λαβεῖν μὲν αὐτόν, ἔχειν
δὲ ἕτερον, ὃν ἐδίδαξεν ἀπομόσαι πάλιν ὅτι οὔτ᾽
αὐτὸς ἔλαβεν οὔτ᾽ ἄλλον ἔχοντα οἶδεν: εἰλήφει μὲν
γὰρ ὁ Λᾶσος, εἶχεν δὲ αὐτός. τοιαῦτα δὲ καὶ Ἐπίχαρμος παίζει, ὥσπερ ἐν Λόγῳ καὶ Λογίνᾳ ῾p. 245 L':'
Athenaeus. Deipnosophistae. Kaibel. In Aedibus B.G. Teubneri. Lipsiae. 1887.
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