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
And a collyra for the voyagers,
Earn'd by the trophy raised at Marathon.
76. There is a loaf also called the obelias, or the penny loaf, so
called because it is sold for a penny, as in Alexandria; or else because
it is baked on small spits. Aristophanes, in his Farmers, says--
Then perhaps some one bakes a penny loaf.
And Pherecrates, in his Forgetful Man, says--
Olen, now roast a penny roll with ashes,
But take care, don't prefer it to a loaf.
And the men who in the festivals carried these penny rolls on their
shoulders were called ὀβελιαφόροι. And Socrates, in his sixth book of
his Surnames, says that it was Bacchus who invented the penny roll on
his expeditions. There is a roll called etnites, the same which is also
named lecithites, according to the statement of Eucrates.
The Messapians call bread πανὸς, and they call satiety πανία, and those
things which give a surfeit they call πάνια; at least, those terms are
used by Blæsus, in his Mesotriba, and by Archilochus, in his Telephus,
and by Rhinthon, in his Amphitryon. And the Romans call bread _panis_.
Nastus is a name given to a large loaf of leavened bread, according to
the statement of Polemarchus and Artemidorus. But the Heracleon is a
kind of cheesecake. And Nicostratus says, in his Sofa--
Such was the size, O master, of the nastus,
A large white loaf. It was so deep, its top
Rose like a tower quite above its basket.
Its smell, when that the top was lifted up,
Rose up, a fragrance not unmix'd with honey
Most grateful to our nostrils, still being hot.
The name of bread among the Ionians was cnestus, as Artemidorus the
Ephesian states in his Memorials of Ionia. Thronus was the name of a
particular kind of loaf, as it is stated by Neanthes of Cyzicus, in the
second book of his Grecian History, where he writes as follows--"But
Codrus takes a slice of a loaf of the kind called thronus, and a piece
of meat, such as they give to the old men."
There is, among the Elians, a kind of loaf baked on the ashes which they
call bacchylus, as Nicander states in the second book of his treatise On
Dialects. And Diphilus mentions it in his Woman who went Astray, in
these words--
To bring loaves baked on ashes, strain'd through sieves.
The thing called ἀποπυρίας is also a kind of roll; and that also is baked
on the ashes; and by some it is called ζυμίτης, or leavened. Cratinus, in
his Effeminate People--
First of all I an apopyrias have--
* * * * *
77. And Archestratus, in his Gastronomy, thus speaks of flour and of
rolls--
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