_A._ Take some grapes dried and cut, Some fennel, anise, assafœtida, Mustard and cabbage, some dry coriander, Sumach and cummin, capers, marjoram, Leeks, garlic, thyme, sage, seseli, Some new-made wine boil'd down, some rue and spinach. And, in his Woman working all Night, or the Spinners, he introduces a cook as saying-- I must run round, and bawl for what I want; You'll call for supper when you home return, And I have got no vinegar, nor anise, Nor marjoram, nor fig-leaves, nor sweet oil, Nor almonds, nor the lees of new-made wine, Nor garlic, no, nor leeks, nor onions, No fire, no cummin seed, no salt, no eggs, No wood, no trough, no frying-pan, no rope; No pail, no cistern, neither well nor pitcher; Here I stand useless with but knife in hand, Girt and prepared for action all in vain. And, in his Wicked Woman, he says-- First of all take a dish of goodly size, And put in marjoram and pounded herbs, Steep'd to a fair extent in vinegar, Colour'd with new made wine, and flavoured with Plenty of potent assafœtida. And Teleclides used the word ἐπεσθίειν, in his Prytanes, in this manner:-- Τύριον ἐπεσθίοντα, eating cheese. And Eupolis used the word ἐπιφαγεῖν in his Taxiarchs-- Wishing to eat (ἐπιφαγεῖν) of nothing But just an onion and three pickled olives. And Aristophanes, in his Plutus, says-- Once, out of poverty, he ate up (ἐπήσθιεν) everything. 70. But there was another class of men somewhat different from the cooks, called τραπεζοποιοὶ, setters out of tables. But what their office was is plainly stated by Antiphanes, in his Sojourner-- Hither I come, and bring this table-setter, Who soon shall wash the cloths, and trim the lamps, Prepare the glad libations, and do every thing Which to his office may pertain. And it is worth inquiring whether the τραπεζοκόμος is the same person as the τραπεζοποιός. For king Juba, in his treatise on Similitudes, says that the τραπεζοκόμος is the same person who is called by the Romans _structor_, quoting from the play of Alexander, which is entitled Potation-- Now for to-morrow I must get a flute-player, A table-setter, and a workman too. This was my master's reason for despatching me On this commission from his country seat. But they called him τραπεζοποιὸς who took care of the tables, and of everything else which required order and good management. Philemon says, in his "The Uninvited Guest"-- There is no need of long deliberation About the kitchen, for the table-setter Is bound to look to that; that is his office. They also used the word ἐπιτραπεζώματα, meaning by this the food which was placed upon the table. Plato says, in the Menelaus-- How little now is left of the ἐπιτραπεζώματα.