47. After this conversation some dishes were set on the table, full of many kinds of boiled meat: feet, and head, and ears, and loins; and also entrails, and intestines, and tongues; as is the custom at the places which are called boiled meat shops at Alexandria. For, O Ulpian, the word ἑφθοπώλιον, a boiled meat shop, is used by Posidippus, in his Little Boy. And again, while they were inquiring who had ever named any of these dishes, one of the party said, Aristophanes mentions entrails as things which are eatable, in his Knights-- I say that you are selling tripe and paunches Which to the revenue no tithe have paid. And presently after he adds-- Why, my friend, hinder me from washing my paunches, And from selling my sausages? Why do you laugh at me? And again he says-- But I, as soon as I have swallow'd down A bullock's paunch, and a dish of pig's tripe, And drunk some broth, won't stay to wash my hands, But will cut the throats of the orators, and will confuse Nicias. And again he says-- But the Virgin Goddess born of the mighty Father Gives you some boiled meat, extracted from the broth, And a slice of paunch, and tripe, and entrails. And Cratinus, in his Pluti, mentions jawbones of meat-- Fighting for a noble jawbone of beef. And Sophocles, in the Amycus, says-- And he places on the table tender jawbones. And Plato, in his Timæus, writes, "And he bound up some jawbones for them, so as to give the appearance of a whole face." And Xenophon says, in his book on Horsemanship, "A small jawbone closely pressed." But some call it, not σιαγὼν, but ὑαγὼν, spelling the word with a υ, saying that it is derived from the word ὑς. Epicharmus also speaks of tripe, χορδαὶ as we call it, but he calls it ὄρυαι, having given one of his plays the title of Orya. And Aristophanes, in his Clouds, writes-- Let them prepare a dish of tripe, for me To set before these wise philosophers. And Cratinus, in his Pytina, says-- How fine, says he, is now this slice of tripe. And Eupolis speaks of it also, in his Goats. But Alexis, either in his Leucadia, or in his Runaways, says-- Then came a slice and good large help of tripe. And Antiphanes, in his Marriage, says-- Having cut out a piece of the middle of the tripe. 48. And as for feet, and ears, and even noses of beasts, they are all mentioned by Alexis, in his Crateua or the Physic-seller. And I will adduce a slight proof of that presently, which contains a good many of the names about which we are inquiring. Theophilus says, in his Pancratiast-- _A._ There are here near three minas' weight of meat Well boiled. _B._ What next? _A._ There is a calf's nose, and A heel of bacon, and four large pig's-feet. _B._ A noble dish, by Hercules! _A._ And three calves-feet.