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Plutarch
Table Talk Section 3
Section 21 of 260
Canonical reference 1.6.3
Ancient Greek
ἐκ τούτου περὶ τῶν πολὺ πιόντων ἦν λόγος· ἐν οἷς καὶ τὸν πύκτην Ἡρακλείδην ἐτίθεσαν, ὃν Ἡρακλοῦν Ἀλεξανδρεῖς ὑπεκορίζοντο, κατὰ τοὺς πατέρας ἡμῶν γενόμενον. οὗτος ἀπορῶν συμπότου παραμένοντος, ἐκάλει τοὺς μὲν ἐπὶ πρόπωμα τοὺς δʼ ἐπʼ ἄριστον ἄλλους δʼ ἐπὶ δεῖπνον, ἐσχάτους δέ τινας ἐπὶ κῶμον· ἀπαλλαττομένων δὲ τῶν πρώτων, δεύτεροι συνῆπτον εἶτʼ ἐφεξῆς οἱ τρίτοι καὶ τέταρτοι· κἀκεῖνος οὐθὲν διάλειμμα ποιῶν ἅπασιν ἐξήρκει καὶ τοὺς τέσσαρας πότους συνδιέφερε.
English
Thomas Creech, 1874
From hence great drinkers were the subject of our discourse; and the wrestler Heraclides (or, as the Alexandrians mince it, Heraclus), who lived but in the last age, was accounted one. He, when he could get none to hold out with him. invited some to take their morning’s draught, others to dinner, to supper others, and others after, to take a merry glass of wine; so that as the first went off, the second came, and the third and fourth company, and he all the while without any intermission took his glass round, and outsat all the four companies.
French AI-generated translation, non-official
Codex gpt-5.6-sol · Non-official working translation · 2026-09-13
À partir de là, notre conversation porta sur les grands buveurs. Le lutteur Héraclide, ou Héraclus comme disent les Alexandrins en écourtant son nom, qui ne vivait encore qu’au siècle dernier, était compté parmi eux. Lorsqu’il ne trouvait personne capable de tenir contre lui, il invitait les uns à prendre avec lui la boisson du matin, d’autres à déjeuner, d’autres à souper, et d’autres encore à boire joyeusement après le repas. Ainsi, lorsque le premier groupe se retirait, le deuxième arrivait, puis le troisième et le quatrième. Pendant tout ce temps, sans aucune interruption, il faisait circuler la coupe et restait à table plus longtemps que les quatre compagnies.
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