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The Deipnosophists; or, Banquet of the Learned of Athenæus, Vol. 3 (of 3)

Note 18 — BOOK XIII.

Charles Duke Yonge translation

This is a blunder of Athenæus; for the passage alluded to is evidently that in the Iphigenia in Aulis of Euripides. The lines as quoted in the text here are—

Δίδυμα γὰρ τόξα αὐτὸν Ἐντείνεσθαι χαρίτων Τὸ μὲν ἐπ' εἰαίωνι τύχα Τὸ δ' ἐπὶ συγχύσει βιοτᾶς.

The passage in Euripides is—

Δίδυμ' Ἕρως ὁ χρυσοκόμας Τόξ' ἐντείνεται χαρίτων Τὸ μὲν ἐπ' εὐαίωνι πότμῳ Τὸ δ' ἐπὶ συγχύσει βιοτᾶω.—Iph. in Aul. 552.

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