Tuesday, January 20, 2015
A Hearty Eater
Athenaeus 10.411 a-b (describing Heracles; tr. Charles Burton Gulick):
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Epicharmus, for example, says in Busiris:Related post: A Very Valiant Trencherman.
"First, if you should see him eating you would die.Ἐπίχαρμος μὲν ἐν Βουσίριδι λέγων·
His gullet thunders inside, his jaw rattles,
his molar crackles, his canine tooth gnashes,
he sizzles at the nostrils, he waggles his ears."
πρῶτον μὲν αἴ κ᾽ ἔσθοντ᾽ ἴδοις νιν ἀποθάνοις.
βρέμει μὲν ὁ φάρυγξ ἔνδοθ᾽, ἀραβεῖ δ᾽ ἁ γνάθος,
ψοφεῖ δ᾽ ὁ γομφίος, τέτριγε δ᾽ ὁ κυνόδων,
σίζει δὲ ταῖς ῥίνεσσι, κινεῖ δ᾽ οὔατα.
