The Deipnosophists; or, Banquet of the Learned of Athenæus, Vol. 2 (of 3)Athenaeus, of Naucratis
Philosophy
The Deipnosophists; or, Banquet of the Learned of Athenæus, Vol. 2 (of 3)
Athenaeus, of Naucratis
Civilization, Greco-Roman; Dinners and dining -- Greece; Greece -- Social life and customs; Homosexuality -- Greece
to retire, with all his troops, under the protection of a treaty.
And when Iphiclus agreed to this, Phalanthus devised the following
contrivance. Having slain some victims, and taken out the entrails, he
endeavoured to put in some silver and gold, and so to carry it away.
But when Iphiclus perceived this, he prevented it. And when Phalanthus
alleged against him the oath which he had taken, when he swore to allow
them to take away whatever they had in their bellies, he met them with
a counter device, giving them vessels to go away in, but taking away
the rudders, and the oars, and the sails, saying that he had sworn to
give them boats, and nothing further. And as the Phoenicians were in
great perplexity, they buried a great deal of their riches underground,
marking the places where they buried it, that at some future time
they might come and take it up again; but they left a great deal for
Iphiclus. And so, when the Phoenicians had left the place in this
manner, the Greeks became masters of it." And Polyzelus has given the
same account, in his History of Rhodian Affairs; and says—"That the
only people who knew the secret about the fishes and the crows were
Phaces and his daughter Dorcia; and she, being beloved by Iphiclus, and
having come to an agreement to marry him through the intervention of
her nurse, persuaded the man who brought the water to bring the fish
and put them into the goblet; and she herself whitewashed the crows,
and let them go."
62. And Creophylus, in his Annals of the Ephesians, says—"Those who
colonized Ephesus, being much perplexed for want of a place where they
could settle, sent at last to the oracle, and asked where they should
build themselves a city; and he told them to build a city in that place
which a fish should show them, and to which a wild boar should guide
them. Accordingly, it is said that some fishermen were breakfasting
at the spot where the fountain called Hypelæus now is, and where the
harbour is which is called the sacred harbour; and that one of the
fish leaped up with a burning cinder sticking to him, and fell on some
of the refuse; and that by this means a thicket was set on fire, in
which there happened to be a wild boar; and he, being disturbed by
the fire, ran for some distance up the mountain which is called the
Rough Mountain, and at last was transfixed by javelins, and fell where
the temple of Minerva now stands. And the Ephesians, having crossed
over from the island, occupied that for twenty-one years, and in the
twenty-second year they founded Trachea and the towns around Coressus,
and erected a temple to Diana in the market-place, and one to the
Pythian Apollo overlooking the harbour."
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