Αγροίκοι (fr. 2)

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When I had been garlanded, the table was brought in
with more food, by the gods
and goddesses, than I had ever seen inside.
Thus I was merely existing f I was not truly living then

Ath. 14.642b
Άναξανδρίδης Άγροίκοις·-
Anaxandrides in Agroikoi:-

Metre lambic trimeter.

Discussion Jacobs 1809. 340; Dobree 183311.349; Meineke 1840 III. 162; Bothe
1944. 34-5; Meineke 1847. xv, 574; Hirschig 1849. 4; Bothe 1855. 419; Meineke
1857 V.clxxvi-clxxvii; Cobet 1858. 107; Nauck 1862. 186 n. 1; Nauck 1866. 732;
Kock 1875. 399-400; Kock 1884 11.136; Ribbeck 1885. 10 n. 2; Blaydes 1890a.
81; Nauck 1894. 92-3; Blaydes 1896. 121; Herwerden 1903. 96; Legrand 1910.
75; Headlam-Knox 1922.120 n. 2; Edmonds 195911.46—7; Webster 1960.140-1;
Kassel-Austin 1991 11.239; Sanchis Llopis et al. 2007. 239; Rusten 2011. 463
Citation context Athenaeus quotes these lines in the course of a lengthy
discussion (639b-643d) of the so-called δεύτεραι τράπεζαι (Poll. 6.83 suggests
the existence also of τρίται τράπεζαι) that followed a δεϊπνον and consisted
of snacks such as fruit, nuts, and small game (e. g. Amphis fr. 9; Antiph. fr.
172; Philippid. fr. 20; Pl. R. 372c; Ath. 14.641f). The δεύτεραι τράπεζαι were a
separate event rather than a second course of the δεϊπνον (Arist. fr. 104), and
the food was not so much a dessert as a stimulant or complement to the wine
that usually accompanied it (Arist. Pr. 930bl2-14; Gal. VI.550 Kuhn [CMG
V.4(2) 259]); in general, see Olson-Sens 1999 on Matro fr. 1.111 (SH534); Arnott
1996 on Alex. fr. 168.2.
Text In 1, K-A print είσήρετο in place of the paradosis έπήγετο, accepting
Kock’s lengthy argument that neither the simplex nor compounds of άγω are
not used for the serving or removal of food and drink at banquets and that
parallels exist only for εισφέρεται (Ar. V. 1216; fr. 545.1; Pherecr. fr. 73.1; cf.
Ar. Eq. 1165), παρατίθεται (Crates Com. fr. 16.5; Alex. fr. 176), παράκειται
(Diod. Com. fr. 2.10) and έσαίρεται (Ar. Ra. 520); cf. the use of α’ίρω at Ar. Pax
1; Th. 254; Pl. Com. fr. 46.4. Despite Kock’s demonstration that a different word