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    "description": "Gow et Page, Hellenistic Epigrams, t. II, p. 3 : \"P's alternative ascription to SImonides is evidently ridiculous (see p. 516). The ascription to Aeschrion depends upon Athenaeus (8.335B), who writes, Φιλαινίδος ... εἰς ἣν ἀναφέρεται τὸ περὶ ἀφροδισίων ἀκόλαστον σύγγραμμα, ὅπερ φησὶ ποιῆσαι Αἰσχρίων ὁ Σάμιος ἰαμβοποιὸς Πολυκράτη τὸν σοφιστὴν ἐπὶ διαβολῇ τῆς ἀνθρώπου σωφρονεστάτης γενομένης. There seems no reason to doubt this ascription (...)"
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