46. Accordingly Theopompus, in the fifth book of his History of the Actions of Philip, says--"For to eat much, and to eat meat, takes away the reasoning powers, and makes the intellect slower, and fills a man with anger, and harshness, and all sorts of folly." And the admirable Xenophon says, that it is sweet to a hungry man to eat barley-cakes and cardamums, and sweet to a thirsty man to draw water out of the river and drink it. But Socrates was often caught walking in the depth of evening up and down before his house; and to those who asked him what he was doing there, he used to reply that he was getting a relish for supper. But we shall be satisfied with whatever portion we receive from you, and we are not angry as if we received less than we ought, like the Hercules in Anticlides. For he says, in the second book of his Returns--"After Hercules had accomplished his labours, when Eurystheus was solemnizing some sacrificial feast, he also was invited. And when the sons of Eurystheus were setting before each one of the company his proper portion, but placing a meaner one before Hercules, Hercules, thinking that he was being treated with indignity, slew three of the sons, Perimedes, Eurybius, and Eurypylus." But we are not so irascible, even though in all other points we are imitators of Hercules. 47. For lentils are a tragic food, said Archagathus . . . . to have written; which also Orestes ate when he had recover'd from his sickness, as Sophilus the comic writer says. But it is a Stoic doctrine, that the wise man will do everything well, and will be able to cook even lentils cleverly. On which account Timon the Phliasian said-- And a man who knows not how to cook a lentil wisely. As if a lentil could not be boiled in any other way except according to the precepts of Zeno, who said-- Add to the lentils a twelfth part of coriander. And Crates the Theban said-- Do not prefer a dainty dish to lentils, And so cause factious quarrels in our party. And Chrysippus, in his treatise on the Beautiful, quoting some apophthegms to us, says-- Eat not an olive when you have a nettle; But take in winter lentil-macaroni-- Bah! bah! Lentil-macaroni's like ambrosia in cold weather. And the witty Aristophanes said, in his Gerytades-- You're teaching him to boil porridge or lentils. And, in his Amphiaraus-- You who revile the lentil, best of food. And Epicharmus says, in his Dionysi-- And then a dish of lentils was boil'd up. And Antiphanes says, in his Women like one another-- Things go on well. Do you now boil some lentils, Or else at least now teach me who you are. And I know that a sister of Ulysses, the most prudent and wisest of men, was called Φακῆ (lentil), the same whom some other writers call Callisto, as Mnaseas of Patra relates, in the third book of his History of the Affairs of Europe, and as Lysimachus also tells us, in the third book of his Returns.