====== Cercidas Poem I ======

I

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... but little in feasting
                  This man delighteth
Child of oily-ragged clothes ...

		... how
	If Zeus be master
Never fair result we see?


So it appears to me that our ‘pot friend’ Ulpian, 
as my Cercidas of Megalopolis says, 
watches his fellow guests to see if they have 
overlooked a fish-bone or lumpy piece of g
ristle in their food before them (Athenaeus).

       'Child of but frugal repasts'
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Source: [[https://books.google.com/books/about/Herodes_Cercidas_and_the_Greek_Choliambi.html?id=NxHWrQEACAAJ|Herodes, Cercidas and the Greek Choliambic Poets]]