Book 6
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And Aemilianus replied to him,—The word πίναξ, when used of a vessel, you may find used by Metagenes the comic writer, in his Valiant Persians: and Pherecrates, my friend, has used the form τήγανον in his Trifles, where he says— He said he ate anchovies from the frying-pan (τηγάνον). And the same poet has also said in the Persæ— To sit before the frying-pans (τήγανα) burning rushes. And Philonides says, in his Buskins— Receive him now with rays and frying-pans (τήγανα). And again he says— Smelling of frying-pans (τήγανα). And Eubulus says, in his Orthane— The bellows rouses Vulcan's guardian dogs, With the warm vapour of the frying-pan (τήγανον). And in another place he says— But every lovely woman walks along Fed with the choicest morsels from the frying-pan (τήγανον). And in his Titans he says— And the dish Doth laugh and bubble up with barbarous talk, And the fish leap ἐν μέσοισι τηγάνοις. And Phrynichus also uses a verb derived from the word in his Tragedian— 'Tis sweet to eat fried meat, at any feast For which one has been at no cost oneself. And Pherecrates, in his Ant Men says—Are you eating fried meat (σὺ δ’ ἀποτηγανίζεις)?
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But Hegesander the Delphian says that the Syracusans call a dish τήγανον, and the proper τήγανον they call ξηροτήγανον; on which account he says that Theodorides says in some poem— He in a τήγανον did boil it well, In a large swimming dish. Where he uses τήγανον for λοπας. But the Ionians write the word ἤγανον without the letter τ, as Anacreon says— Putting his hand within the frying-pan (ἤγανον).
