Book 3
Cucumbers Figs Apples Citrons Limpets Cockles Shell fish Oysters Pearls Tripe Pigs' Feet Music at Banquets Puns on Words Banquets Dishes at Banquets Fish Shell fish Fish Cuttle-fish Bread Loaves Fish Water Drinking Drinking Snow Cheesecakes χόνδοος
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CALLIMACHUS the grammarian said that a great book was equivalent to a great evil.
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With respect to Ciboria, or Egyptian beans, Nicander says in his Georgics— You may sow the Egyptian bean, in order in summer To make its flowers into garlands; and when the ciboria Have fallen, then give the ripe fruit to the youths Who are feasting with you, into their hands, as they have been a long time Wishing for them; but roots I boil, and then place on the table at feasts. But when Nicander speaks of roots, he means the things which are called by the Alexandrians colocasia; as he says elsewhere— Have peel'd the beans, and cut up the colocasia. Now there is at Sicyon a temple to the Colocasian Minerva. There is also a kind of cup called κιβώριον. This was a Latin word for a cup. Horace says— Obliviosi levia Massici Ciboria exple.
