Kitap 2
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Let us now speak of oil—Antiphanes or Alexis makes mention of the Samian Oil, saying— This man you see will be a measurer Of that most white of oils, the Samian oil. Ophelion makes mention also of Carian oil, and says— The man anointed was with Carian oil. Amyntas, in his treatise on Persian Weights and Measures, Says—"The mountains there bear turpentine and mastic trees, and Persian nuts, from which they make a great deal of oil for the king. And Ctesias says, that in Carmania there is made an oil which is extracted from thorns, which the king uses. And he, in his third book of his treatise on the Revenues derived from Asia, making a list of all the things which are prepared for the king for his supper, makes no mention of pepper, or of vinegar, which of itself is the very best of all seasonings. Nor does Deinon, in his Persian History; though he does say that ammoniac salt is sent up to the king from Egypt, and water from the Nile. Theophrastus also mentions an oil which he calls ὠμοτριβὲς, that is to say, extracted raw, in his treatise on Scents, saying that it is produced from the large coarse olives called phaulian, and from almonds. Amphis also speaks of the oil which is produced amongst the Thurians, as exceedingly fine— Oil from the Thurians comes; from Gela lentils.
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Pickle is a thing often mentioned. Cratinus Says— Your basket will be full of briny pickle. And Pherecrates says— His beard was all besmear'd with pickle juice. And Sophocles, in his Triptolemus, says— Eating this briny season'd pickle. And Plato the comic writer says— These men will choke me, steeping me in putrid pickle. But the word γάρος, pickle, is a masculine noun. As Aeschylus proves, when he says καὶ τὸν ἰχθύων γάρον.
