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530–594 Greece

Agathias Scholasticus (Ancient Greek: Ἀγαθίας σχολαστικός; c. AD 530 – 582/594) was a Greek poet and the principal historian of part of the reign of the Roman emperor Justinian I between 552 and 558.

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Εἰμί μὲν οὐ φιλόοινος: ὅταν δ᾽ ἐθέλῃς με μεθύσσαι,
πρῶτα σὺ γευομένη πρόσφερε, καὶ δέχομαι.
εἰ γὰρ ἐπιψαύσεις τοῖς χείλεσιν, οὐκέτι νήφειν
εὐμαρὲς, οὐδὲ φυγεῖν τὸν γλυκὺν οἰνοχόον
πορθμεύει γὰρ ἔμοιγε κύλιξ παρὰ σοῦ τὸ φίλημα,
καί μοι ἀπαγγέλλει τὴν χάριν ἣν ἔλαβεν.

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