Antiphanes, Poet
Mystics
Porphyry, On Abstinence from Animal Food, Book the Second
「5th c. CE」Antiphanes, Mystics quoted in On Abstinence from Animal Food, Book the Second, in The Select Works of Porphyry 「archvie.org」, trans. by Thomas Taylor (London, 1823).
Hence, also, a certain poet, because the affair was known, appears to have asserted things of a similar kind, as we are informed by Antiphanes in his Mystics:
In simple offerings most the Gods delight:
For through before them hecatombs are placed,
Yet frankincense in burn the last of all.
An indication this that all the rest,
Preceding, was a vain expense bestowed
Through ostentation, for the sake of men;
But a small offering gratifies the Gods.
