# Ἐπιστολαί. Διαλέξεις. ξ

Philostratus the Athenian, Ἐπιστολαί. Διαλέξεις., Ἐπιστολαί. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/philostratus-the-athenian/text-2/%CE%BE

πάντα με αἱρεῖ τὰ σά, καὶ ὁ λινοῦς χιτών, ὡς ὁ τῆς Ἴσιδος, καὶ τὸ καπηλεῖον, ὡς Ἀφροδίσιον, καὶ τὰ ἐκπώματα, ὡς Ἥρας ὄμματα, καὶ ὁ οἶνος, ὡς ἄνθος, καὶ τῶν τριῶν δακτύλων αἱ συνθέσεις, ἐφʼ ὧν ὀχεῖται τὸ ποτήριον, ὥσπερ αἱ τῶν φύλλων τῶν ἐν τοῖς ῥόδοις ἐκβολαί, κἀγὼ μὲν φοβοῦμαι, μὴ πέσῃ, τὸ δὲ ἕστηκεν ὀχυρῶς, ὡς γνώμῃ ἐρηρεισμένον, καὶ τοῖς δακτύλοις συμπέφυκεν. εἰ δὲ καὶ ἀποπίοις ποτέ, πᾶν τὸ καταλειπόμενον γίγνεται θερμότερον τῷ ἄσθματι, ἥδιον δὲ τοῦ νέκταρος. κάτεισι γοῦν ἐπὶ τὴν φάρυγγα ἀκωλύτοις ὁδοῖς, ὥσπερ οὐκ οἴνῳ κεκραμένον, ἀλλὰ φιλήμασιν.

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Philostratus the Athenian, Ἐπιστολαί. Διαλέξεις., ed. Carl Ludwig Kayser. Text: The Greek Library, from the Perseus Digital Library and other open sources, CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: apostrophes normalised and the text divided into reading sections by Interlinea.
License: CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Source: https://thegreeklibrary.pages.lisn.upsaclay.fr/works/tlg0638.tlg006.local001/.