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Athenaeus, The Learned Banqueters (Deipnosophistae), Casaubon page 555: You have to have lived a little
Book 13 opens. Athenaeus speaks in his own voice to his friend Timocrates, as he does at the start of each book, and sets up the subject: love, wives and courtesans.
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Athenaeus, to Timocrates
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- 555a You have to have lived a little. Antiphanes the comic poet, my friend Timocrates, was once reading one of his comedies…
- 555b Come now, Erato. (For there was often talk about wives and courtesans too.) Setting out the account…
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