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Epigrammata. ed. B.G. Niebuhr. Agathiae Myrinaei historiarum libri quinque, Bonn, Weber, 1828. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg4024.tlg002.local001","excerpt":"1.* (Anth. Gr. ex editione Fr. Iacobsii IV, 3.) Αγαθίου Σχολαστικοῦ Ἀσιανοῦ Μυριναίου συλλογὴ γέων ἐπιγραμμάτων ἐκτεθεῖσα έν Κωνσταντίνου πόλει πρὸς Θεόδωρον Δεκουρίωνα τὸν Κοσμᾶ εἴρηται δὲ τὰ προοίμια μετὰ τὰς συνεχεῖς ἀκροάσεις τὰς κατ’ ἐκεῖνο καιροῦ γενομένας. Οἶμαι μὲν ὑμᾶς, ἄνδρες, ἐμπεπλησμένους ἐκ τῆς τοσαύτης τῶν λόγων πανδαισίας, ἔτι που τὰ σιτία προσκορως ἐρυγγάνειν· κὼ δὴ κάθησθε τῇ τρυφῇ σεσαγμένοι. λόγων γὰρ ἡμῖν πολυτελῶν καὶ ποικίλων πολλοὶ προθέντες παμμιγεῖς εὐωχίας, περιφρονεῖν πείθουσι τῶν εἰθισμένων. τί δὲ νῦν ποιήσομεν; τὰ προὐξειργασμένα οὕτως ἐάσω συντετῆχθαι κείμενα ἡ καὶ προθῶμαι τῆς ἀγορᾶς ἐν τῷ μέσῳ παλιγκαπήλοις εὐτελῶς ἀπεμπολῶν; καὶ τίς μετασχεῖν τῶν ἐμῶν ἀνέξεται; τίς δ’ ἂν πρίαιτο τοὺς λόγους τριωβόλου, εἰ μὴ φέροι πως ὦτα μὴ τετρημένα; ἀλλ’ ἐστιν ἐλπὶς εὐμενῶς τῶν δρωμένων ὑμᾶς μεταλαβεῖν, κοὐ κατεβλακευμένως. ἔθος γὰρ ὑμῖν τῇ προθυμίᾳ μόνῃ, τῇ τῶν…","divisions":[{"label":"ΑΓΑΘΙΟΥ ΣΧΟΛΑΣΤΙΚΟΥ ΕΠΙΓΡΑΜΜΑΤΑ.","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg4024.tlg002.local001/#tlg4024-tlg002-local001-pr"},{"label":"§ 1","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg4024.tlg002.local001/#tlg4024-tlg002-local001-1"},{"label":"§ 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