Athenaeus quotes

Athenaeus was an ancient Greek author and grammarian, best known for his work "Deipnosophistae" ("The Banquet of the Learned"). His writings provide valuable insights into the culture, cuisine, and daily life of ancient Greece. He contributed significantly to the preservation of classical Greek literature and knowledge. Here are 6 of his quotes:

Every investigation which is guided by principles of Nature fixes its ultimate aim entirely on gratifying the stomach.

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It was a saying of Demetrius Phalereus, that "Men having often abandoned what was visible for the sake of what was uncertain, have not got what they expected, and have lost what they had,-being unfortunate by an enigmatical sort of calamity."

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On one occasion some one put a very little wine into a wine-cooler, and said that it was sixteen years old. "It is very small for its age," said Gnathæna.

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Dorion, ridiculing the description of a tempest in the "Nautilus" of Timotheus, said that he had seen a more formidable storm in a boiling saucepan.

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Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

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