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μετὰ ταῦτα περιενεχθεισῶν ὀρνίθων τε ὀπτῶν
φακῆς τε καὶ πισῶν αὐταῖς χύτραις, ἔτι δὲ τῶν τοιούτων περὶ ὧν Φαινίας ὁ Ἐρέσιος ἐν τοῖς περὶ φυτῶν
τάδε γράφει: ‘πᾶσα γὰρ χεδροπώδης ἥμερος φύσις
ἐνσπέρματος ἣ μὲν ἑψήσεως ἕνεκα σπείρεται, οἷον [ὁ]
κύαμος, πισός: ἐτνηρὸν γὰρ ἐκ τούτων ἕψημα γίνεται:
τὰ δὲ πάλιν αὖθις λεκιθώδη, καθάπερ ἄρακος: τὸ δὲ
φακῆς, οἷον ἀφάκη, φακός: τὸ δὲ χόρτου ἕνεκα τῶν
τετραπόδων ζῴων, οἷον ὄροβος μὲν ἀροτήρων βοῶν,
ἀφάκη δὲ προβάτων.' πισοῦ δὲ τοῦ ὀσπρίου μνημονεύει καὶ Εὔπολις ἐν Χρυσῷ γένει. Ἡλιόδωρος δ᾽
ὁ περιηγητὴς ἐν α# περὶ ἀκροπόλεως ῾FHG IV 425'
'‘τῆς τῶν πυρῶν, φησίν, ἑψήσεως ἐπινοηθείσης οἱ μὲν
παλαιοὶ πύανον, οἱ δὲ νῦν ὁλόπυρον προσαγορεύουσιν.'
τοιούτων ἔτι πολλῶν λεγομένων ὁ Δημόκριτος ἔφη:
‘ἀλλὰ κἂν τῆς φακῆς ἐάσατε ἡμᾶς μεταλαβεῖν ἢ αὐτῆς
γε τῆς χύτρας, μὴ καὶ λίθοις τις ὑμῶν βεβλήσεται,
κατὰ τὸν Θάσιον Ἡγήμονα.' καὶ ὁ Οὐλπιανὸς ἔφη:
‘τίς δ᾽ αὕτη ἡ λιθίνη βαλλητύς; Ἐλευσῖνι γὰρ τῇ ἐμῇ
οἶδά τινα πανήγυριν ἀγομένην καὶ καλουμένην Βαλλητύν: περὶ ἧς οὐκ ἄν τι εἴποιμι μὴ παρ᾽ ἑκάστου
μισθὸν λαβών.' ‘ἀλλ᾽ ἔγωγε, φησὶν ὁ Δημόκριτος,
οὐκ ὢν ‘λαβάργυρος ὡρολογητὴσ᾽ κατὰ τὸν Τίμωνος
Πρόδικον ῾fr. 11 W' 'λέξω τὰ περὶ τοῦ Ἡγήμονος.
Athenaeus. Deipnosophistae. Kaibel. In Aedibus B.G. Teubneri. Lipsiae. 1887.
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