Book 3
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And Epicharmus, in his Hebe's Marriage, and in his Muses (and this play is an emendation of the former one), thus enumerates the different kinds of loaves—The panloaf, the homorus, the statites, the encris, the loaf made of meal, the half loaf, which Sophron also mentions in his Female Actors, saying— Pan-loaves and homori, a dainty meal For goddesses, and a half-loaf for Hecate. And I know, my friends, that the Athenians spell this word with a ρ, writing κρίβανον and κριβανίτης; but Herodotus, in the second book of his history, writes it with a λ, saying κλιβάνῳ διαφανεῖ. And so Sophron said— Who dresses suet puddings or clibanites, Or half-loaves here? And the same writer also speaks of a loaf which he calls πλακίτης, saying in his Gynæcea— He feasted me till night with placite loaves. Sophron also mentions tyron bread, or bread compounded with cheese, saying in the play called the Mother-in-law— I bid you now eat heartily, For some one has just giv'n a tyron loaf, Fragrant with cheese, to all the children. And Nicander of Colophon, in his Dialects, calls unleavened bread δάρατος. And Plato the comic writer, in his Long Night, calls large ill-made loaves Cilician, in these words— Then he went forth, and bought some loaves, no nice Clean rolls, but dirty huge Cilicians. And in the drama entitled Menelaus, he calls some loaves Agelæi, or common loaves. There is also a loaf mentioned by Alexis, in his Cyprian, which he calls autopyrus— Having just eaten autopyrus bread. And Phrynichus, in his Poastriæ, speaks of the same loaves, calling them autopyritæ, saying— With autopyrite loaves, and sweeten'd cakes Of well-press'd figs and olives.
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And Sophocles makes mention of a loaf called orindes, in his Triptolemus, which has its name from being made of rice (ὄρυζα), or from a grain raised in Aethiopia, which resembles sesamum.
