Living Poets

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Eὐριπίδης {{#lemma: ὁ ποιητὴς | ὁ ποιητὴς m : ὁ τραγωιδὸς m : ὁ τῶν τραγωιδιῶν ποιητὴς m}} ἐπεὶ ὀψωνοῦντος αὐτοῦ ἐπελάβετό τις λέγων ὅτι Σοφοκλῆς τοῦτο διὰ δούλου ποιεῖ {{#lemma: ἔφη “τοιγαροῦν | ἔφη τοιγαροῦν m : τοιγαροῦν ἔφη m : εἶπε τοιγαροῦν m : ἔφη om. m}} Σοφοκλῆς ἐσθίει ὄψον {{#lemma: ὁποῖον τῶι οἰκέτηι αὐτοῦ ἀρέσκει | ὁποῖον … ἀρέσκει m : ὁποῖον ἂν … ἀρέσηι m}}, ἐγὼ δὲ ὁποῖον ἂν ἐμοί.”
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Euripides the poet, when someone had a go at him while he was buying food, saying that Sophocles used a slave to do this, said, ‘In that case, Sophocles eats the food which pleases his slave, but I eat the food which pleases me.’
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