Book 14
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Those who have lived in the place assure us that there are capital cheesecakes to be got at Parium on the Hellespont; for it is a blunder of Alexis, when he speaks of them as coming from the island of Paros. And this is what he says in his play called Archilochus:— Happy old man, who in the sea-girt isle Of happy Paros dwell'st—a land which bears Two things in high perfection; marble white, Fit decoration for th' immortal gods, And cheesecakes, dainty food for mortal men. And Sopater the farce-writer, in his Suitors of Bacchis, testifies that the cheesecakes of Samos are extraordinarily good; saying,— The cheesecake-making island named Samos.
