On drinking wine in Anacreon fr. 356 PMG (=33 Gent.)

The A. supports with new arguments von der Mühll's idea that in Anacreon fr. 356 PMG (=33 Gentili) Athenaeus has joined two distinct short poems. The first (fr. a) is an invitation to drink strong in order to provoke Dionysiac enthousiasm; the second (fr. b) is an admonition against the degeneration of the symposium and a recall to the rules of a well ordered rite. The performance of the two poems must be placed in the same symposium at some distance of time, or, more probably, in different symposia: both were available to be performed whenever similar circumstances occurred. Some arguments are proposed in defence of Pauw’s amendment ἀνυβρίστως in fr. (a).