And Anaxilas says, in his Cooks-- _A._ I would much rather roast a little fish, Than here repeat whole plays of Æschylus. _B._ What do you mean by little fish? Do you intend To treat your friends as invalids? 'Twere better To boil the extremities of eatable animals, Their feet and noses. And Anaxilas says, in the Circe-- For having an unseemly snout of pig, My dear Cinesias. And in the Calypso-- Then I perceived I bore a swine's snout. Anaxandrides has mentioned also ears in the Satyrus. And Axionicus says, in his Chalcis-- I am making soup, Putting in well-warm'd fish, and adding to them Some scarce half-eaten fragments; and the pettitoes Of a young porker, and his ears; the which I sprinkle With savoury assafœtida; and then I make the whole into a well-flavour'd sausage, A meat most saleable. Then do I add a slice Of tender tripe; and a snout soak'd in vinegar. So that the guests do all confess, the second day Has beaten e'en the wedding-day itself. And Aristophanes says, in his Proagon-- Wretch that I am, I've eaten tripe, my son: How can I bear to see a roasted snout? And Pherecrates says, in his Trifles-- Is not this plainly now a porker's snout? And there is a place which is called Ῥύγχος, or Snout, near Stratos, in Ætolia, as Polybius testifies, in the sixth book of his Histories. And Stesichorus says, in his Boar Hunting-- To hide the sharpen'd snout beneath the earth. And we have already said that the word ῥύγχος properly applies only to the snout of a swine; but that it is sometimes used for the nose of other animals, Archippus has proved, saying in jest, in his Second Amphitryon, of the human face-- And this, too, though you have so long a nose (ῥύγχος). And Araros says, in his Adonis-- For the god turns his nose towards us. 49. And Aristophanes makes mention of the extremities of animals as forming a common dish, in his Æolosicon-- And of a truth, plague take it, I have boil'd Four tender pettitoes for you for dinner. And in his Gerytades he says-- Pig's pettitoes, and bread, and crabs. And Antiphanes says, in his Corinthia-- _A._ And then you sacrifice a pig's extremities To Venus,--what a joke! _B._ That is your ignorance; For she in Cyprus is so fond of pigs, O master, that she drove away the herd Of swine from off the dunghill where they fed, And made the cows eat dirt instead of them. But Callimachus testifies that, in reality, a pig is sacrificed to Venus; or perhaps it is Zenodotus who says so in his Historic Records, writing thus, "The Argives sacrifice a pig to Venus, and the festival at which this takes place is called Hysteria." And Pherecrates says, in his Miners--