Excerpt from The Deipnosophists or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us, Vol. 1 of 3: Literally Translated by C. D. Yonge, B.A., With an Appendix of Poetical Fragments, Rendered Into English Verse by Various Authors, and a General Index
The author of the Deipnosophists was an Egyptian, born in Naucratis, a town on the left side of the Canopic Mouth of the Nile. The age in which he lived is somewhat uncertain, but his work, at least the latter portion of it, must have been written after the death of Ulpian the lawyer, which happened A. D. 228.
Athen?us appears to have been imbued with a great love of learning, in the pursuit of which lie indulged in the most extensive and multifarious reading; and the principal value of his work is, that by its copious quotations it preserves to us large fragments from the ancient poets, which would otherwise have perished. There are also one or two curious and interesting extracts in prose; such, for instance, as the account of the gigantic ship built by Ptolem?us Philopator, extracted from a lost work of Callixenus of Rhodes.
The work commences, in imitation of Plato"s Ph?do, with a dialogue, in which Athen?us and Timocrates supply the place of Ph?do and Echcerates. The former relates to his friend the conversation which passed at a banquet given at the house of Laurcntius, a noble Roman, between some of the guests, the best known of whom are Galen and Ulpian.
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