[Footnote 13: There is meant here to be a pun on διδάσκω, which means "to teach," and also "to exhibit a play."] [Footnote 14: There is an allusion here to Harmonia the wife of Cadmus.] [Footnote 15: Zethus was the name of the brother of Amphion.] [Footnote 16: καρκῖνος is also Greek for a crab.] [Footnote 17: Ψάλλ᾽ ἐς κόρακας, parodying the common execration, Βάλλ᾽ ἐς κόρακας.] [Footnote 18: Alluding to the intemperance of the suitors of Penelope, as described in the Odyssey.] [Footnote 19: Schweigh, referring to the passage here alluded to, (Hist. An. i. 10,) proposes to transpose these characteristics, so as to attribute shamelessness to those who do not wink, and fickleness to those who do.] [Footnote 20: Corone is not a woman's name, as some have fancied; the allusion is to the custom of some beggars, who, pretending to be ashamed to beg for themselves, carried about a talking jackdaw (κορώνη), and professed to be begging only for the use of the bird.] [Footnote 21: From ἐπιτιμάω, to rebuke.] [Footnote 22: Hom. Odyss. i. 22.] [Footnote 23: Hom. Iliad, i. 424.] BOOK IX. 1. But now let each becalm his troubled breast, Wash, and partake serene the friendly feast; While to renew these topics we delay Till Heaven's revolving lamp restores the day, both to you and me, O Timocrates. For when some hams were brought round, and some one asked whether they were tender, using the word τακερὸς,—In what author does τακερὸς occur? said Ulpian: and is there any authority, too, for calling mustard σίναπι instead of νᾶπυ̣ For I see that that condiment is being brought round in the dishes with the hams. And I see that the word κωλεὸς, a ham, _a ham_, is now used in the masculine gender, and not in the feminine only, as our Attic writers use it. At all events, Epicharmus, in his Megarian Woman, says— Sausages, cheese, and hams χορδὴ, and artichokes, But not a single thing that's eatable: [Sidenote: THE WORDS ΤΑΚΕΡΟΣ AND ΣΙΝΑΠΙ.] and in his Cyclops he says— Pig's tripe is good, by Jove, and so is ham (κωλεός). And learn this now from me, O you wise man, that Epicharmus, uses χορδὴ for what, in every other place, he calls ὀρύα, tripe. And I see, too, that salt is used in seasoning in other dishes; but of salt which is not seasoned the Cynics are full, among whom we find, in the Corycus of Antiphanes, another Cynic saying— Of delicacies which the sea produces, We have but one, but that is constant, salt; And then[24] . . . . . . I see, too, that brine is mingled with vinegar; and I know, too, that now some of the inhabitants of Pontus prepare the pickle which they call oxygarum, or vinegar pickle, by itself. 2. Zoilus replied to this, and said—Aristophanes, my good friend, in his Lemnian Woman, has used the word τακερὸς for delicate, saying— Lemnus producing good and delicate (τακεροὺς) beans: and Pherecrates, in his Crapatalli, says— To make the vetches delicate (τακερούς):