The Deipnosophists; or, Banquet of the Learned of Athenæus, Vol. 1 (of 3)Athenaeus, of Naucratis
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The Deipnosophists; or, Banquet of the Learned of Athenæus, Vol. 1 (of 3)
Athenaeus, of Naucratis
Civilization, Greco-Roman; Dinners and dining -- Greece; Greece -- Social life and customs; Homosexuality -- Greece
75. And Epicharmus, in his Hebe's Marriage, and in his Muses (and this
play is an emendation of the former one), thus enumerates the different
kinds of loaves--"The pan-loaf, the homorus, the statites, the encris,
the loaf made of meal, the half loaf," which Sophron also mentions in
his Female Actors, saying--
Pan-loaves and homori, a dainty meal
For goddesses, and a half-loaf for Hecate.
And I know, my friends, that the Athenians spell this word with a ρ,
writing κρίβανον and κριβανίτης; but Herodotus, in the second book of his
history, writes it with a λ, saying κλιβάνῳ διαφανεῖ. And so Sophron said--
Who dresses suet puddings or clibanites,
Or half-loaves here?
And the same writer also speaks of a loaf which he calls πλακίτης, saying
in his Gynæcea--
He feasted me till night with placite loaves.
Sophron also mentions tyron bread, or bread compounded with cheese,
saying in the play called the Mother-in-law--
I bid you now eat heartily,
For some one has just giv'n a tyron loaf,
Fragrant with cheese, to all the children.
And Nicander of Colophon, in his Dialects, calls unleavened bread
δάρατος. And Plato the comic writer, in his Long Night, calls large
ill-made loaves Cilician, in these words--
Then he went forth, and bought some loaves, not nice
Clean rolls, but dirty huge Cilicians.
And in the drama entitled Menelaus, he calls some loaves agelæi, or
_common loaves_. There is also a loaf mentioned by Alexis, in his
Cyprian, which he calls autopyrus--
Having just eaten autopyrus bread.
And Phrynichus, in his Poastriæ, speaks of the same loaves, calling them
autopyritæ, saying--
With autopyrite loaves, and sweeten'd cakes
Of well-press'd figs and olives.
And Sophocles makes mention of a loaf called orindes, in his Triptolemus,
which has its name from being made of rice ὄρυζα, or from a grain raised
in Æthiopia, which resembles sesamum.
Aristophanes also, in his Tagenistæ, or the Fryers, makes mention of
rolls called collabi, and says--
Each of you take a collabus.
And in a subsequent passage he says--
Bring here a paunch of pig in autumn born,
With hot delicious collabi.
And these rolls are made of new wheat as Philyllius declares in his
Auge--
Here I come, bearing in my hand the offspring
Of three months' wheat, hot doughy collabi,
Mixed with the milk of the grass-feeding cow.
There is also a kind of loaf called maconidæ, mentioned by Alcman, in
his fifteenth book, in these terms--"There were seven couches for the
guests, and an equal number of tables of maconidæ loaves, crowned with a
white tablecloth, and with sesamum, and in handsome dishes." Chrysocolla
are a food made of honey and flax.[183:1]
There is also a kind of loaf called collyra, mentioned by Aristophanes
in his Peace--
A large collyra, and a mighty lump
Of dainty meat upon it.
And in his Holcades he says--
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