If I catch fire I'll leap with a mighty
Spring upon Hercules, as ἀνακεῖται.
And Aristotle says, when speaking of the laws of the Tyrrhenians, "But the Tyrrhenians sup, ἀνακειμένοι with the women under the same covering." Theopompus also says—
Then we the goblets fill'd with mighty wine,
On delicate couches κατακειμένος,
Singing in turn old songs of Telamon.
And Philonides says—
I have been here κατακειμένος a long time.
And Euripides says in the Cyclops—
Ἀνέπεσε (which is the same as ἀνέκειτο)
Breathing forth long and deep and heavy breath.
And Alexis says—
After that I bade her ἀναπεσεῖν by my side.
43. The ancients, too, used the word πάσασθαι for to taste. And so Phœnix says to Achilles, "You would not πάσασθαι anything in any one else's house. And in another place we find—