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Athenaeus, The Learned Banqueters (Deipnosophistae), Casaubon page 603: Alexander, mad for boys
Praxilla of Sicyon was a woman poet of the 5th century BC. Dicaearchus, a pupil of Aristotle, wrote a Life of Greece; his book on Alexander's sacrifice at Troy is lost.
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ὃνhònwhomκαὶkaì—ἁρπάσανταharpásantahe carried offκαὶkaìandἀναθέμενονanathémenonputεἰςeisinἅρμαhármaa chariotεἰςeistoΘήβαςThḗbasThebesφυγεῖνphygeînfled.Read on word by word in the reader ›
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- 603a Alexander, mad for boys. …whom he carried off, put in a chariot, and fled with to Thebes. But…
- 603b Bagoas. …Sacrifice at Ilium, says that he was so overcome by Bagoas the eunuch that,…
- 603c The captive queen. …please me as much as it will pain you.’” For as given to love…
- 603d Lovers in myth. …or Alexander.” Ibycus says that Talos was the lover of Rhadamanthys the just. Diotimus,…
- 603e A lover of lads. King Antigonus' beloved was Aristocles the lyre-singer, about whom Antigonus of Carystus writes this…
- 603f Bring the cup slowly. “…the poet I met on Chios, when he was sailing to Lesbos as general:…
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