The Deipnosophists; or, Banquet of the Learned of Athenæus, Vol. 3 (of 3)Athenaeus, of Naucratis
Philosophy
The Deipnosophists; or, Banquet of the Learned of Athenæus, Vol. 3 (of 3)
Athenaeus, of Naucratis
Civilization, Greco-Roman; Dinners and dining -- Greece; Greece -- Social life and customs; Homosexuality -- Greece
Seleucus also, in his treatise on Dialects, says, that there is a kind
of garland made of myrtle, which is called Ἐλλωτὶς, being twenty cubits
in circumference, and that it is carried in procession on the festival
of the Ellotia. And he says, that in this garland the bones of Europa,
whom they call Ellotis, are carried. And this festival of the Ellotia
is celebrated in Corinth.
[Sidenote: GARLANDS.]
There is also the Θυρεατικός. This also is a name given to a species
of garland by the Lacedæmonians, as Sosibius tells us in his treatise
on Sacrifices, where he says, that now it is called ψίλινος, being
made of branches of the palm-tree. And he says that they are worn, as
a memorial of the victory which they gained, in Thyrea,[120] by the
leaders of the choruses, which are employed in that festival when they
celebrate the Gymnopædiæ.[121] And there are choruses, some of handsome
boys, and others of full-grown men of distinguished bravery, who all
dance naked, and who sing the songs of Thaletas and Alcman, and the
pæans of Dionysodotus the Lacedæmonian.
There are also garlands called μελιλώτινοι, which are mentioned by
Alexis in his Crateva, or the Apothecary, in the following line—
And many μελιλώτινοι garlands hanging.
There is the word too, ἐπιθυμίδες, which Seleucus explains by
"every sort of garland." But Timachidas says, "Garlands of every kind
which are worn by women are called ἐπιθυμίδες."
There are also the words ὑποθυμὶς and ὑποθυμιὰς, which are names
given to garlands by the Æolians and Ionians, and they wear such around
their necks, as one may clearly collect from the poetry of Alcæus and
Anacreon. But Philetas, in his Miscellanies, says, that the Lesbians
call a branch of myrtle ὑποθυμὶς, around which they twine violets and
other flowers.
The ὑπογλωττὶς also is a species of garland. But Theodorus, in his
Attic Words, says, that it is a particular kind of garland, and is used
in that sense by Plato the comic poet, in his Jupiter Ill-treated.
23. I find also, in the comic poets, mention made of a kind of garland
called κυλιστὸς, and I find that Archippus mentions it in his Rhinon,
in these lines—
He went away unhurt to his own house,
Having laid aside his cloak, but having on
His ἐκκύλιστος garland.
And Alexis, in his Agonis, or The Colt, says—
This third man has a κυλιστὸς garland
Of fig-leaves; but while living he delighted
In similar ornaments:
and in his Sciron he says—
Like a κυλιστὸς garland in suspense.
Antiphanes also mentions it in his Man in Love with Himself. And
Eubulus, in his Œnomaus, or Pelops, saying—
Brought into circular shape,
Like a κυλιστὸς garland.
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