Ἀπίκιος Μάρκος

Marcus Apicius

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[He] whose name has a great reputation for prodigality and extravagance and indolence of life and general depravity. Junius Blaesus and Lucius were the two consuls.¹ When Blaesus was invited to the feast, he brought with him Asconius Pedianus² like an uninvited follower,³ for it was permitted to invite additionally certain extra guests like shadows of oneself. And [so] Apicius had to spend his substance both for friends and strangers. I have heard that to this banquet came also one Isidore by name, one of those who pass their whole time in the palaestra, already an old man and of great age, being 91 years old, firm and stout of limb, deep-chested, noble in the arms and the hands, sharp-sighted and keen of hearing, so that one would not believe he was more than 60 years old; in bouts of the wine-cup he competed in drinking with the young, and moreover he strove in eating-contests and drinking-contests and acted like a young man. They say that he was defeated in one respect: he left sooner than his fellow-banqueter. Other old men spoke on his skill in the palaestra and especially Junius Blaesus. And when he said this, he says he was 60 years old. I have heard that Servilius the consul⁴ was long-lived; for he lived 90 years and in every way, reportedly, his body was without suffering. And indeed he preserved all his senses in enviable and impressive possession.

Greek original · Adler’s text

Ἀπίκιος Μάρκος· οὗ διαρρεῖ μυρίον ὄνομα ἐπί τε ἀσωτίᾳ καὶ πολυτελείᾳ καὶ ῥᾳστωνεύσει βίου καὶ κακοδαιμοσύνῃ λοιπῇ. ὑπάτω δὲ ἤστην Ἰούνιος Βλαῖσος καὶ Λεύκιος· ὁ τοίνυν Βλαῖσος ἐπὶ τὴν θοί- νην κληθεὶς οἷον ἐφολκίδα ἄκλητον ἐπάγεται Ἀσκώνιον Παιδιανόν. ἐξῆν γὰρ καὶ ἐπικλήτους οἱονεὶ σκιὰς ἑαυτοῖς παρακαλεῖν τινας. καὶ ἔδει τὸν Ἀπίκιον καὶ φίλοις καὶ ἀγνῶσι τὴν οὐσίαν ῥίπτειν τὴν ἑαυτοῦ. πέπυσμαι δὴ ἐν τῷδε τῷ συνδείπνῳ γενέσθαι καὶ Ἰσίδωρον ὄνομα, τῶν ἐκ παλαίστρας κατατριβέντων, ἄνδρα παλαιὸν μὲν ἤδη καὶ πολὺν μὲν τῷ χρόνῳ, ἓν δὲ καὶ ʹ4ʹ ἔτη γεγονότα, εὐπαγῆ τε καὶ εὐμελῆ, καὶ βαθὺν μὲν τὰς πλευρὰς, γενναῖον δὲ τὼ βραχίονε καὶ τὼ χεῖρε ἄκρω, βλέπειν τε ὀξὺ καὶ ἀκούειν ῥᾷστα, ὡς μὴ ἂν πιστεύειν πέρα ξʹ ἐτῶν εἶναι αὐτὸν, σκύφων δὲ πιτύλοις ἁμιλλᾶσθαι διαπίνοντα πρὸς τοὺς νέους, καὶ μέντοι καὶ ὑπὲρ πολυδαισίας καὶ ὑπὲρ πολυποσίας ἐρίσαι καὶ νεάζειν ταῦτα. ἑνὶ δὲ ἡττηθῆναί φασιν αὐτόν· ἀπελθεῖν γὰρ τοῦ συνδείπνου θᾶττον. γέροντες δὲ ἄλλοι τε ἔλεγον ἐπὶ τέχνῃ παλαιστρικῇ καὶ μέντοι καὶ Ἰούνιος Βλαῖσος. καὶ ὅτε ταῦτα ἔλεγεν, ἔτη γέγονεν ξʹ φησί. μακρὸν δὲ τὴν ζωὴν γενέσθαι πέπυσμαι Σερουΐλιον ὕπατον· ἔτεσι γὰρ τοῖς ʹ4ʹ ὁμοῦ τε ἐβίωσε καὶ πάντα, ὡς λόγος, τὰ τοῦ σώματος ἀπαθὴς ἦν. καὶ μέντοι καὶ διεσώσατο τὰς αἰσθήσεις ἁπάσας εὐμοιρίᾳ ἀξιοζήλῳ τε καὶ σοβαρᾷ.

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*)api/kios *ma/rkos: ou(= diarrei= muri/on o)/noma e)pi/ te a)swti/a| kai\ polutelei/a| kai\ r(a|stwneu/sei bi/ou kai\ kakodaimosu/nh| loiph=|. u(pa/tw de\ h)/sthn *)iou/nios *blai=sos kai\ *leu/kios: o( toi/nun *blai=sos e)pi\ th\n qoi/-  nhn klhqei\s oi(=on e)folki/da a)/klhton e)pa/getai *)askw/nion *paidiano/n. e)ch=n ga\r kai\ e)piklh/tous oi(onei\ skia\s e(autoi=s parakalei=n tinas. kai\ e)/dei to\n *)api/kion kai\ fi/lois kai\ a)gnw=si th\n ou)si/an r(i/ptein th\n e(autou=. pe/pusmai dh\ e)n tw=|de tw=| sundei/pnw| gene/sqai kai\ *)isi/dwron o)/noma, tw=n e)k palai/stras katatribe/ntwn, a)/ndra palaio\n me\n h)/dh kai\ polu\n me\n tw=| xro/nw|, e(\n de\ kai\ #4# e)/th gegono/ta, eu)pagh= te kai\ eu)melh=, kai\ baqu\n me\n ta\s pleura\s, gennai=on de\ tw\ braxi/one kai\ tw\ xei=re a)/krw, ble/pein te o)cu\ kai\ a)kou/ein r(a=|sta, w(s mh\ a)\n pisteu/ein pe/ra c# e)tw=n ei)=nai au)to\n, sku/fwn de\ pitu/lois a(milla=sqai diapi/nonta pro\s tou\s ne/ous, kai\ me/ntoi kai\ u(pe\r poludaisi/as kai\ u(pe\r poluposi/as e)ri/sai kai\ nea/zein tau=ta. e(ni\ de\ h(tthqh=nai/ fasin au)to/n: a)pelqei=n ga\r tou= sundei/pnou qa=tton. ge/rontes de\ a)/lloi te e)/legon e)pi\ te/xnh| palaistrikh=| kai\ me/ntoi kai\ *)iou/nios *blai=sos. kai\ o(/te tau=ta e)/legen, e)/th ge/gonen c# fhsi/. makro\n de\ th\n zwh\n gene/sqai pe/pusmai *seroui/+lion u(/paton: e)/tesi ga\r toi=s #4# o(mou= te e)bi/wse kai\ pa/nta, w(s lo/gos, ta\ tou= sw/matos a)paqh\s h)=n. kai\ me/ntoi kai\ diesw/sato ta\s ai)sqh/seis a(pa/sas eu)moiri/a| a)ciozh/lw| te kai\ sobara=|.

Notes (4)

Source: Aelian fr. 113 Domingo-Forasté (110 Hercher). For Apicius see already alpha 3207, and again alpha 3214.
1cf. beta 326, esp. the chronological note there. ↩
2The scholar Quintus Asconius Pedianus; cf. alpha 4184, and generally OCD(4) pp.181-2. ↩
3cf. epsilon 3945. ↩
4cf. sigma 252.

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26 Aug 2015expanded a note — David Whitehead
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1 Apr 2012upgraded reference, deleted link — Catharine Roth
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16 Oct 2000Translated — Catharine Roth

Greek original · Adler’s text

Betacode

*)api/kios *ma/rkos: ou(= diarrei= muri/on o)/noma e)pi/ te a)swti/a| kai\ polutelei/a| kai\ r(a|stwneu/sei bi/ou kai\ kakodaimosu/nh| loiph=|. u(pa/tw de\ h)/sthn *)iou/nios *blai=sos kai\ *leu/kios: o( toi/nun *blai=sos e)pi\ th\n qoi/-  nhn klhqei\s oi(=on e)folki/da a)/klhton e)pa/getai *)askw/nion *paidiano/n. e)ch=n ga\r kai\ e)piklh/tous oi(onei\ skia\s e(autoi=s parakalei=n tinas. kai\ e)/dei to\n *)api/kion kai\ fi/lois kai\ a)gnw=si th\n ou)si/an r(i/ptein th\n e(autou=. pe/pusmai dh\ e)n tw=|de tw=| sundei/pnw| gene/sqai kai\ *)isi/dwron o)/noma, tw=n e)k palai/stras katatribe/ntwn, a)/ndra palaio\n me\n h)/dh kai\ polu\n me\n tw=| xro/nw|, e(\n de\ kai\ #4# e)/th gegono/ta, eu)pagh= te kai\ eu)melh=, kai\ baqu\n me\n ta\s pleura\s, gennai=on de\ tw\ braxi/one kai\ tw\ xei=re a)/krw, ble/pein te o)cu\ kai\ a)kou/ein r(a=|sta, w(s mh\ a)\n pisteu/ein pe/ra c# e)tw=n ei)=nai au)to\n, sku/fwn de\ pitu/lois a(milla=sqai diapi/nonta pro\s tou\s ne/ous, kai\ me/ntoi kai\ u(pe\r poludaisi/as kai\ u(pe\r poluposi/as e)ri/sai kai\ nea/zein tau=ta. e(ni\ de\ h(tthqh=nai/ fasin au)to/n: a)pelqei=n ga\r tou= sundei/pnou qa=tton. ge/rontes de\ a)/lloi te e)/legon e)pi\ te/xnh| palaistrikh=| kai\ me/ntoi kai\ *)iou/nios *blai=sos. kai\ o(/te tau=ta e)/legen, e)/th ge/gonen c# fhsi/. makro\n de\ th\n zwh\n gene/sqai pe/pusmai *seroui/+lion u(/paton: e)/tesi ga\r toi=s #4# o(mou= te e)bi/wse kai\ pa/nta, w(s lo/gos, ta\ tou= sw/matos a)paqh\s h)=n. kai\ me/ntoi kai\ diesw/sato ta\s ai)sqh/seis a(pa/sas eu)moiri/a| a)ciozh/lw| te kai\ sobara=|.

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