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[i]
THE

DEIPNOSOPHISTS

OR

BANQUET OF THE LEARNED

OF

ATHENÆUS.
 
LITERALLY TRANSLATED
By C. D. YONGE, B.A.
 
WITH AN APPENDIX OF POETICAL FRAGMENTS,
RENDERED INTO ENGLISH VERSE BY VARIOUS AUTHORS,
AND A GENERAL INDEX.
 
IN THREE VOLUMES.
VOL. I.
 
LONDON:
HENRY G. BOHN, YORK STREET, COVENT GARDEN.
MDCCCLIV.
[ii]
LONDON:
R. CLAY, PRINTER, BREAD STREET HILL.
[iii]
PREFACE.
The author of the Deipnosophists was an Egyptian, born in Naucratis, atown on the left side of the Canopic Mouth of the Nile. The age in whichhe lived is somewhat uncertain, but his work, at least the latterportion of it, must have been written after the death of Ulpian thelawyer, which happened A. D. 228.
Athenæus appears to have been imbued with a great love of learning, inthe pursuit of which he indulged in the most extensive and multifariousreading; and the principal value of his work is, that by its copiousquotations it preserves to us large fragments from the ancient poets,which would otherwise have perished. There are also one or two curiousand interesting extracts in prose; such, for instance, as the account ofthe gigantic ship built by Ptolemæus Philopator, extracted from a lostwork of Callixenus of Rhodes.
The work commences, in imitation of Plato's Phædo, with a dialogue, inwhich Athenæus and Timocrates supply the place of Phædo and Echecrates.The former relates to his friend the conversation which pa                        
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