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Γραικύλος schrieb am 23.05.2021 um 15:48 Uhr (
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Der folgende Bericht des Stoikers Poseidonios (fr. 62a) ist von Athenaios von Naukratis (527E f.) überliefert:
Posidonius in Bk. XVI of the History, with reference to luxurious living in the cities of Syria, writes as follows: “Because of the abundance that came from their land, the people in the cities were free from the bother of the necessities of life [ἀπὸ τῆς περὶ τὰ ἀναγκαῖα κακοπαθείας συνόδους νεμόντων πλείονας], and so they were for ever meeting for a continual life of feasting [ἐν αἷς εὐωχοῦντο συνεχῶς]; their gymnasia were turned into baths, where even their unguents were expensive and perfumed; as for their ‘Letters’ [γραμματείοι], (that is the name they gave to their dining Clubs), they lived in them as if they were their homes, and spent the greater part of the day there stuffing their bellies with food and wine, even carrying off a great deal back home as well, and were continually entertained by flute playing to the accompanying beat of the loud-twanging tortoise-shell [καὶ καταυλούμενοι πρὸς χελωνίδος πολυκρότου ψόφον] so that whole cities resounded with such noises.”
(Posidonius Vol. I: The Fragments. Ed. by L. Edelstein and I. G. Kidd. Cambridge 2004, p. 82; Vol. III: The Translation of the Fragments. Ed. by I. G. Kidd. Cambridge 2004, p. 131)