Plut. Mor., Greek Questions 19 — Greek Questions

Plut. Mor., Greek Questions 19 — Greek Questions, Plutarch; served verbatim

Question 19. What is the Anthedon of which Pythia speaks, Drink wine on th’ lees, Anthedon’s not thy home? For Anthedon in Boeotia did not produce much wine.Solution. Of old they called Calauria Irene from a woman Irene, which they fable to be the daughter of Neptune and Melanthea, the daughter of Alpheus. Afterwards, when the people of Anthes and Hyperes planted there, they called the island Anthedonia and Hyperia. The oracle, as Aristotle saith, was this: Drink wine on th’ lees, Anthedon’s not thy home, Nor sacred Hypera where thou drank’st pure wine. Thus Aristotle; but Mnasigeiton saith that Anthus, who was brother to Hypera, was lost when he was an infant, and Hypera rambling about to find him, came at Pherae to Acastus (or Adrastus), where by chance he found Anthus serving as a wine-drawer. There while they were feasting, the boy bringing a cup of wine to his sister, he knew her, and said to her softly, Drink wine on th’ lees, Anthedon’s not thy home.

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Greek Questions, Plutarch — translated by Isaac Chauncy (rev. W. W. Goodwin), 1874
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