Kitap 9
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And Homer uses the word χὴν in both the masculine and feminine gender; for he says— αἰετὸς ἀργὴν χῆνα φέρων–An eagle carrying off a lazy goose. And again he says— And as he seized a fine home-fatten'd goose (χῆνα ἀτιταλλομένην). And in another place he says— I've twenty geese, fond of the lucid stream, Who in my house eat wheat, and fatten fast. And Eupolis mentions the livers of geese (and they are thought an excessive delicacy at Rome), in his Women Selling Garlands, where he says— If you have not a goose's liver or heart.
