Book 9
The words τακερὸς and σίναπι The word πάροψις Turnips Cabbage Leeks Poultry Anaxandrides Pigs Cooks Use of particular Words Learned Cooks Cooks Use of particular Words Made Dishes Pheasants The Porphyrion Partridges The Bustard Sparrows Quails Pigeons Ducks Sucklings Attic form of Nouns in ως Loins Hares The word σύαγρος Dinners Cookery Chamæleon Bean Soup Soap Towels
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But now let each becalm his troubled breast, Wash, and partake serene the friendly feast; While to renew these topics we delay Till Heaven's revolving lamp restores the day, both to you and me, O Timocrates. For when some hams were brought round, and come one asked whether they were tender, using the word τακερὸς,—In what author does τακερὸς occur? said Ulpian: and is there any authority, too, for calling mustard σίναπι instead of νᾶπυ? For I see that that condiment is being brought round in the dishes with the hams. And I see that the word κωλεὸς, a ham, is now used in the masculine gender, and not in the feminine only, as our Attic writers use it. At all events, Epicharmus, in his Megarian Woman, says— Sausages, cheese, and hams (κωλεοὶ), and artichokes, But not a single thing that's eatable: and in his Cyclops he says— Pig's tripe is good, by Jove, and so is ham (κωλεός). And learn this now from me, O you wise man, that Epicharmus, in this last passage, uses χορδὴ for what, in every other place, he calls ὀρύα, tripe. And I see, too, that salt is used in seasoning in other dishes; but of salt which is not seasoned the Cynics are full, among whom we find, in the Corycus of Antiphanes, another Cynic saying— Of delicacies which the sea produces, We have but one, but that is constant, salt; And thenThe fragment here given appears to be hopelessly corrupt. . . . . . . I see, too, that brine is mingled with vinegar; and I know, too, that now some of the inhabitants of Pontus prepare the pickle which they call oxygarum, or vinegar pickle, by itself.
