Leonteus Argivus fuit familiaris regis Iubae et histrio Graecus saeculo 1 a.C.n. exeunte; cui pessime personam Hypsipylae agenti e fabula Euripidis, rex hoc epigramma dicavit, calumnians eum ut ganeonem, olim Bacchi amicus, carduorum vinique nimis amator:
Μή με Λεοντῆος τραγικοῦ κιναρηφάγου ἦχος
λεύσσων Ὑψιπύλης ἐς κακὸν ἦτορ ὅρα.
ἤμην γάρ ποτ' ἐγὼ Βάκχῳ φίλος, οὐδέ τιν' ὧδε
γῆρυν χρυσολόβοις οὔασιν ἠγάσατο.
νῦν δὲ με χυτρόποδες, κέραμοι καὶ ξηρὰ τάγηνα
χήρωσαν φωνῆς, γαστρὶ χαριζόμενον.
Fontes
- Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae 343f
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