Living Poets

{{DISPLAYTITLE:Athenaeus, ''Sophists at Dinner'' 12.46 (533f-534a) = Anacreon 21 Bergk = 54 Diehl = 82 Gentili = 388 (Anacreon 43) Page ''PMG''}}
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{{#lemma: πρὶν | Ξανθῆι δε γ’ Εὐρυπύληι μέλει / ὁ περοφόρητος Ἀρτέμων. (= Anacreon 27, Athenaeus 12.533 f) ante πρὶν add. Bergk (cf. Bergk Poetae Lyrici Graeci III (Leipzig, 1914) 261-2)}} μὲν ἔχων βερβέριον, καλύμματ' ἐσφηκωμένα,<br /> 
καὶ ξυλίνους ἀστραγάλους ἐν ὠσὶ καὶ ψιλὸν {{#lemma: περὶ | ὠσὶ καὶ ψιλὸν περὶ m : ψιλὸν ἔχων περὶ m : ὠσὶν καὶ ψιλὸν περὶ m}}<br />  
πλευρῇσι {{#lemma: <–⏓–> | <δέρμ’ ᾔει> (sive <δέρμ’ ἔβη> Bergk)}} βοός,<br />  
{{#lemma: νήπλυτον | νήπλυτον Schoemann, Page, Campbell : νεόπλουτον m : νεόπλυτον m}} εἴλυμα κακῆς ἀσπίδος, ἀρτοπώλισιν<br />  
κἀθελοπόρνοισιν ὁμιλέων ὁ πονηρὸς Ἀρτέμων,<br />  
κίβδηλον εὑρίσκων βίον,<br />  
πολλὰ μὲν ἐν δουρὶ {{#lemma: τιθεὶς | τιθεὶς M : δεθεὶς Herwenden, Cobet, Bergk}} αὐχένα, πολλὰ δ' ἐν τροχῷ,<br />  
πολλὰ {{#lemma: δὲ νῶτον σκυτίνῃ | δὲ νῶτον σκυτίνῃ Bergk, Page, Campbell : δ’ ἐν ὠτω σκυτίνω M : δὲ νῶτα σκυτίνῃ Elmsley}} μάστιγι θωμιχθείς, κόμην<br />  
πώγωνά τ' ἐκτετιλμένος·<br />  
νῦν δ' ἐπιβαίνει σατινέων χρύσεα φορέων καθέρματα<br />  
{{#lemma: †παῖς Κύκης† | †παῖς Κύκης† Page, Campbell : παῖς ὁ Κύκης Hermann : πάις Κύκης Dindorf, Kaibel}} καὶ σκιαδίσκην ἐλεφαντίνην φορεῖ<br />  
γυναιξὶν αὔτως {{#lemma: <–⏑–> | <–⏑–> Page, Campbell : <ἐμφερης > Hermann}}.<br />  
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Not long ago he wore a shabby shawl, a headscarf pinched in a top-knot, wooden dice in his ears and a bare ox-<hide> about his ribs, the unwashed covering of a hateful shield: the shameful Artemon, keeping company with the bakers and easy-prostitutes, eking out a criminal living.  He often placed his neck in the stocks, he was often in the treadwheel, he often had his back whipped with a leather scourge, or had his hair and beard plucked out.
Now though he goes about in a carriage, wearing gold earrings, child of Cyce, and carries an ivory parasol, just as women <carry> them.

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