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 Sosibius, in the third book of his essay on Alcman, says, that
cribana is a name given to a peculiar kind of cheesecake, in shape like
a breast. But the barley cake, which is given in sacrifices to be tasted
by the sacrificers, is called hygea. And there is also one kind of
barley cake which is called by Hesiod amolgæa.
The amolgæan cake of barley made,
And milk of goats whose stream is nearly dry.
And he calls it the cake of the shepherds, and very strengthening. For
the word ἀμολγὸς means that which is in the greatest vigour. But I may
fairly beg to be excused from giving a regular list (for I have not a
very unimpeachable memory) of all the kinds of biscuits and cakes which
Aristomenes the Athenian speaks of in the third book of his treatise on
Things pertaining to the Sacred Ceremonies. And we ourselves were
acquainted with that man, though we were young, and he was older than
we. And he was an actor in the Old Comedy, a freedman of that most
accomplished king Adrian, and called by him the Attic partridge.
And Ulpian said--By whom is the word freedman (ἀπελεύθερος) ever used?
And when some one replied that there was a play with that title--namely,
the Freedman of Phrynichus, and that Menander, in his Beaten Slave,
had the word freedwoman (ἀπελευθέρα), and was proceeding to mention
other instances; he asked again--What is the difference between
ἀπελεύθερος[190:1] and ἐξελεύθερος. However, it was agreed upon to postpone
this part of the discussion for the present.
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