<TEI xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" xmlns:py="http://codespeak.net/lxml/objectify/pytype" py:pytype="TREE"><text><body><div type="translation" n="urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0008.tlg001.perseus-eng2" xml:lang="eng"><div type="textpart" subtype="book" xml:base="urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0008.tlg001.perseus-eng2" n="2"><div type="textpart" subtype="chapter" xml:base="urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0008.tlg001.perseus-eng2:2" n="21"><p>Phylarchus says that Theodorus the Larisssean was a water-drinker; the man, I
                  mean, who was always so hostile to king Antigonus. He asserts also that all the
                  Spaniards drink water, though they are the richest of all men, for they have the
                  greatest abundance of gold and silver in their country. And he says, too, that
                  they eat only once a day, out of stinginess, though they wear most expensive
                  clothes. And Aristotle or Theophrastus speaks of a man named Philinus as never
                  having taken any drink or solid food whatever, except milk alone, during the whole
                  of his life. And Pythermus, in his account of the tyrants of Piræus, mentions
                  Glaucon as having been a water-drinker. And Hegesander the Delphian says that
                  Anchimolus and Moschus, sophists who lived in Elis, were water-drinkers all their
                  lives; and that they ate nothing but figs, and for all that, were quite as healthy
                  and vigorous as any one else; but that their perspiration had such an offensive
                  smell, that every one avoided them at the baths. And Matris the Athenian, as long
                  as he lived, ate nothing except a few myrtle-berries each day, and abstained from
                  wine and every other kind of drink except water. Lamprus, too, the musician, was a
                  water-drinker, concerning whom Phrynichus says, <quote>that the gulls lamented,
                     when Lamprus died among them, being a man who was a water-drinker, a subtle
                     hypersophist, a dry skeleton of the Muses, an ague to nightingales, a hymn to
                     hell.</quote> And Machon the comic poet mentions Moschion as a
                  water-drinker.</p></div></div></div></body></text></TEI>