Book 9
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When speaking of hams, they use the two forms κωλῆ and κωλήν. Eupolis, in his Autolycus, says— The legs and hams (κῳλῆες) out of the soup. And Euripides, in his Sciron, says— Nor hams (κωλῆνες) of kids. But the word κωλῆ is contracted from κωλέα, as συκῆ from συκέα, λεοντῆ from λεοντέα; so κωλῆ from κωλέα. Aristophanes, in his second Plutus, says— Alas the ham (κωλῆς) which I have just devour'd! And in his Daitaleis he says— And the fat hams (κωλαὶ) of tender little pigs And dainty tit-bits swift to fly. And in his Storks he says— The heads of lambs, the hams (κωλὰς) of kids. And Plato, in his Griffins, says— Fish, and hams (κωλὰς), and sausages. And Ameipsias, in his Connus, says— The ham (κωλῆ) from off the victim, and the ribs, And the left side o' th' head are usually given. And Xenophon, in his book on Hunting, says—The ham (κωλῆ) is fleshy, and the loins moist. And Xenophanes the Colophonian, in his Elegies, says— For having sent a ham (κωλῆ) of kid, you won A mighty leg of carefully fatted bull, An honourable present for a man, Whose glory shall pervade all Greece, and never Cease while the poets and the songs of Greece Survive in memory and the mouths of men.
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And as immediately after this a great quantity of food of all sorts was brought in, we will just mention those dishes which seem most worthy of being remembered; for there was a great quantity of birds, and of geese, and also of young birds (which some people call πίποι), and of pigs, and of those highly-esteemed birds the pheasants. And after I have told you about the vegetables, I will then enumerate to you the other dishes also.
