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Athenaeus, The Learned Banqueters (Deipnosophistae), Casaubon page 604: Crimson cheeks
Sophocles quotes a line of the tragic poet Phrynichus about a blushing face, and a pedantic schoolmaster at the table objects.
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Sophocles, quoting Phrynichus
λάμπειlámpeishinesδ’d’—ἐπὶepìonπορφυρέαιςporphyréaiscrimsonπαρῇσιparêisicheeksφῶςphôsthe lightἔρωτοςérōtosof love.’Ion of Chios
καὶkaìandπρὸςpròstoτόδεtódethisἠμείφθηēmeíphthēansweredὁhotheἘρετριεὺςEretrieùsman from EretriaἢḕorRead on word by word in the reader ›
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- 604a Crimson cheeks. ‘On crimson cheeks shines the light of love.’” To this the schoolmaster from Eretria…
- 604b Rosy-fingered. …pleases you, stranger, the line of Simonides that the Greeks think so very well…
- 604c The speck in the cup. …kept talking to the boy. As the boy was picking a speck out of…
- 604d Practising generalship. …boy. “I am practising generalship, gentlemen,” he said. “Pericles said I knew how to…
- 604e The stolen cloak. …boy spread his own cloak on the grass, and they wrapped themselves in Sophocles'…
- 604f The Sun and the North Wind. When Sophocles heard this, he wrote the following epigram against him, using the fable…
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