But now let each becalm his troubled breast,
Wash, and partake serene the friendly feast;
While to renew these topics we delay
Till Heaven's revolving lamp restores the day,
both to you and me, O Timocrates. For when some hams
were brought round, and come one asked whether they were
tender, using the word
τακερὸς,—In what author does
τακερὸς occur? said Ulpian: and is there any authority,
too, for calling mustard
σίναπι instead of
νᾶπυ̣ For I see
that that condiment is being brought round in the dishes
with the hams. And I see that the word
κωλεὸς, a ham, is
now used in the masculine gender, and not in the feminine
only, as our Attic writers use it. At all events, Epicharmus,
in his Megarian Woman, says—
Sausages, cheese, and hams (κωλεοὶ), and artichokes,
But not a single thing that's eatable:
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and in his Cyclops he says—
Pig's tripe is good, by Jove, and so is ham (κωλεός).
And learn this now from me, O you wise man, that Epicharmus, in this last passage, uses
χορδὴ for what, in every other
place, he calls
ὀρύα, tripe. And I see, too, that salt is used in
seasoning in other dishes; but of salt which is not seasoned
the Cynics are full, among whom we find, in the Corycus of
Antiphanes, another Cynic saying—
Of delicacies which the sea produces,
We have but one, but that is constant, salt;
And then1 . . . . . .
I see, too, that brine is mingled with vinegar; and I know,
too, that now some of the inhabitants of Pontus prepare the
pickle which they call oxygarum, or vinegar pickle, by itself.
