Kitap 9
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There were also heads of pigs split in half and served up as a dish. And this dish is mentioned by Crobylus, in his Son falsely held to be Supposititious— There came in half a head of a young pig, A tender dish; and I did stick to it So close, by Jove, that I left none of it. After these things there was served up a haricot, called κρεωκάκκαβος. And this dish consists of meat chopped up with blood and fat, in a sauce richly sweetened: and Aristophanes the Grammarian says that it was the Achæans who gave this name to the dish. But Anticlides, in the seventy-eighth book of his Returns, says, “Once when there was a design on the part of the Erythreans to put the Chians to death by treachery at a banquet, one of them having learnt what was intended to be done, said– O Chians, wondrous is the insolence Which now has seized the Erythreans' hearts. Flee when you've done your pork-don't wait for beef. And Aristomenes, in his Jugglers, makes mention in the following terms of boiled meat, which he calls ἀναβραστὰ κρέα— * * * * * They used also to eat the testicles of animals, which they called νέφροι.—Philippodes, in his Renovation, speaking of the gluttony of Gnathæna the courtesan, says— Then, after all these things, a slave came in, Bearing a large dish full of testicles; And all the rest of the girls made prudish faces, But fair Gnathæna, that undoer of men, Laughed, and said, "Capital things are testicles, I swear by Ceres." So she took a pair And ate them up: so that the guests around Fell back upon their chairs from laughing greatly.
