Book 14
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There is the ταγηνίτης, too; which is a cheesecake fried in oil. Magnes, or whoever it was that wrote the comedies which are attributed to him, says in the second edition of his Bacchus— Have you ne'er seen the fresh ταγήνιαι hissing, When you pour honey over them? And Cratinus, in his Laws, says— The fresh ταγηνίας, dropping morning dew.
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Then there is the ἔλαφος.. This is a cheesecake made on the festival of Elaphebolia, of wheat-flour, and honey, and sesame.
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The ναστὸς is a kind of cheesecake, having stuffing inside it.
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χόρια are cakes made up with honey and milk.
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The ἀμορβίτης is a species of cheesecake in fashion among the Sicilians. But some people call it παισά. And among the Coans it is called πλακούντιον,, as we are informed by Iatrocles.
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Then there are the σησαμίδες, which are cakes made of honey, and roasted sesame, and oil, of a round shape. Eupolis, in his Flatterers, says— He is all grace, he steps like a callabis-dancer, And breathes sesamides, and smells of apples. And Antiphanes, in his Deucalion, says— Sesamides, or honey-cheesecakes, Or any other dainty of the kind. And Ephippus, in his Cydon, also mentions them in a passage which has been already quoted.
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Then there are μύλλοι. Heraclides the Syracusan, in his treatise on Laws, says, that in Syracuse, on the principal day of the Thesmophorian festival, cakes of a peculiar shape are made of sesame and honey, which are called μύλλοι throughout all Sicily, and are carried about as offerings to the goddesses. There is also the echinus. Lynceus the Samian, in his epistle to Diagoras, comparing the things which are considered dainties in Attica with those which are in esteem at Rhodes, writes thus: They have for the second course a rival to the fame of the ἄμης in a new antagonist called the ἐχῖνος, concerning which I will speak briefly; but when you come and see me, and eat one which shall be prepared for you in the Rhodian mariner, then I will endeavour to say more about it.
