---
title: On the Pallenian Festival
title_greek: Ἀπόσπασμα
author: Themison the Historian
eul_wid: nra-aa
eul_aid: nra
canonical: "https://eulogikon.org/works/themison-pallenian-festival-nra-aa"
period: Roman
dialect: Koine
domain: History
format: Prose
license: "https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/"
---

# On the Pallenian Festival

*Ἀπόσπασμα*

**Author:** Themison the Historian

**eul_wid:** `nra-aa` · [HTML page](https://eulogikon.org/works/themison-pallenian-festival-nra-aa)

## Text

### 1.(t)

ΠΕΡΙ ΠΑΛΛΗΝΙΔΟΣ.

### 1.(t)

Athenaeus VI: Καὶ Θεμίσων δ’ ἐν Παλληνίδι· «Ἐπιμελεῖσθαι δὲ τὸν βασιλέα τὸν ἀεὶ βασιλεύοντα καὶ τοὺς παρασίτους, οὓς ἂν ἐκ τῶν δήμων προαιρῶνται, καὶ τοὺς γέροντας καὶ τὰς γυναῖκας τὰς πρωτοπόσεις.»

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