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But Aristophanes the comic writer, whom Heliodorus the Athenian says, in his treatise concerning the Acropolis, (and it occupies fifteen books,) was a Naucratite by birth, in his play called Plutus, after the god who gave his name to the play and appeared on the stage, says that dishes of silver were in existence, just as all other things might be had made of the same metal. And his words are— But every vinegar cruet, dish and ewer Is made of brass; while all the dirty dishes In which they serve up fish are made of silver. The oven too is made of ivory. And Plato says, in his Ambassadors— Epicrates and his good friend Phormisius, Received many and magnificent gifts From the great king; a golden cruet-stand, And silver plates and dishes. And Sophron, in his Female Actresses, says— The whole house shone With store of gold, and of much silver plate.
