Porro perhibetur Agamemnon amore captus fuisse Argynni, cum in Cephiso nantem eum conspexisset: in quo cum etiam mortuus ille esset (assidue enim in hoc fluvio lavabatur) sepeliit eum, & Veneris Argynnidis templum eodem loco erexit. Licymnius vero Chius in Dithyrambis ait, "Argynni amasium Hymenaeum fuisse."
Ἀγαμέμνονά τε Ἀργύννου
ἐρασθῆναι λόγος, ἰδόντα ἐπὶ τῷ Κηφισῷ νηχόμενον: ἐν ᾧ καὶ τελευτήσαντα αὐτὸν ῾συνεχῶς
γὰρ ἐν τῷ ποταμῷ τούτῳ ἀπελούετὀ θάψας εἵσατο καὶ ἱερὸν αὐτόθι Ἀφροδίτης Ἀργυννίδος.
Λικύμνιος δ᾽ ὁ Χῖος ἐν Διθυράμβοις 'Ἀργύννου φησὶν ἐρώμενον Ὑμέναιον
γενέσθαι.
--Athenaeus,
Deipnosophistae XIII.80; Translated into Latin by Iohannes Schweighaeuser
(1805)
They say that Agamemnon fell in love with Argynnus when he
saw him swimming in the Cephisus River. When Argynnus died in the river (for he
was accustomed to swim there quite often), Agamemnon buried him and built a
temple in his honor, for “Argynnian” Venus. Licymnius of Chios, however,
explains in his poetry that Argynnus’ lover was Hymenaeus.
ATHENAEUS
MAP:
Name: Athenaeus
Date: 2nd c. CE
Works:
Deipnosophists
REGION 4
BIO:
Timeline:
Athenaeus was a scholar who lived in
Naucratis (modern Egypt) during the reign of the Antonines. His fifteen
volume work, the Deipnosophists, are invaluable for the amount of
quotations they preserve of otherwise lost authors, including the poetry of
Sappho.
ROMAN GREEK LITERATURE
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