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Archestratus the Syracusan or Geloan, in his work to which Chrysippus gives the title of Gastronomy, but Lynceus and Callimachus of Hedypathy, that is Pleasure, and which Clearchus calls Deipnology, and others Cookery, (but it is an epic poem, beginning, Here to all Greece I open wisdom's store;) says, A numerous party may sit round a table, But not more than three, four, or five on one sofa; For else it would be a disorderly Babel, Like the hireling piratical band of a rover. But he does not know that at the feast recorded by Plato there were eight and twenty guests present. How keenly they watch for a feast in the town, And, asked or not, they are sure to go down; says Antiphanes; and he adds— Such are the men the state at public cost Should gladly feed; and always Treat them like flies at the Olympic games And hang them up an ox to feast upon.
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Winter produces this, that summer bears; says the bard of Syracuse.Epicharmus. So that it is not easy to put all sorts of things on the table at one time; but it is easy to talk of all kinds of subjects at any time. Other men have written descriptions of feasts; and Tinachidas of Rhodes has done so in an epic poem of eleven books or more; and Numenius the Heraclean, the pupil of Dieuchas the physician; and Metreas of Pitane, the man who wrote parodies; and Hegemon of Thasos, surnamed Phacè, whom some men reckon among the writers of the Old Comedy. And Artemidorus, the false Aristophanes, collected a number of sayings relating to cookery. And Plato, the comic writer, mentions in his Phaon the banquet of Philoxenus the Leucadian.
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A. But I have sought this tranquil solitude,
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To ponder deeply on this wondrous book.
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B. I pray you, what's the nature of its treasures
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A. Sauce for the million, by Philoxenus.
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B. Oh, let me taste this wisdom. A. Listen then;
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I start with onions, and with tunnies end."
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B. With tunnies? Surely, then, he keeps the best
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And choicest of his dishes for the last.
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A. Listen. In ashes first your onions roast
