and Nicander the Colophonian has used the word σιόνηπυ in his Theriacans, where he said— A brazen cucumber and mustard too (σίνηπυ); and in his Georgics he writes— The biting pungent seed of mustard (σινήπυος); and again he says— Cardamum and the plant which stings the nose, The black-leav'd mustard (σίνηπυ). And Crates, in his treatise on the Attic Dialect, introduces Aristophanes as saying— He looked mustard (σίναπυ) and drew down his brows, as Seleucus quotes it, in his books on Hellenism. But it is a line out of the Knights, and it ought to be read thus— κἄβλεψε νάπυ, not καὶ βλέπε σινάπυ: for no Attic writer ever used the form σίναπυ, although there is a reason for each form. For νάπυ may be said, as if it were νάφυ, because it has no φύσις, or growth. For it is ἀφυὲς and little, like the anchovy, which is called ἀφύη, and is called σίναπυ, because it injures the eyes (σίνεται τοὺς ὦπας) by its smell, as the onion has the name of κρόμμυον, because it makes us wink our eyes (ὅτι τὰς κόρας μύομεν). And Xenarchus the comic writer says, in his Scythians— This evil is no longer evil; so My daughter is corrupted by the stranger. And that exquisite writer, Aristophanes, mentions salt and vinegar, saying, in the place where he speaks of Sthenelus the tragedian,— _A._ How can I swallow Sthenelus's words? _B._ By soaking them in vinegar or white salt. 3. We then, my good friend, have gone along with you in these inquiries. But we have a right to expect an answer from you, in what author the word παροψὶς is used for a vessel. For when speaking of some victuals of various sorts, which were carefully dressed, and of some other things of this sort, I am aware that Plato, in his Festivals, has used the following expressions— Whence barley-cakes might be got, and παροψίδες. And again, in his Europa, speaking at considerable length of some exquisite dish, he has used the following expressions among others— _A._ The woman is asleep; _B._ I am aware That she is doing nothing. _A._ The παροψίδες Are all awake; and there is not a thing More calculated to give pleasure always. _B._ But where are these παροψίδες, I pray you? And in the passage immediately following, he uses the word παροψὶς, as if it were equivalent to παροψώνημα, a delicacy; and in his Phaon he says— Other men's things are like παροψίδες, They please a short time, and are quickly spent. And Aristophanes, in his Dædalus, says— All women have one set of principles, And have a lover, like a παροψὶς, ready. 4. So when Ulpian made no reply,—But I, said Leonidas, have a right to speak, since I have been silent a long time. But as Evenus the Parian says— Many men make a point of contradicting On every subject equally; but care not Whether they rightly contradict or not. [Sidenote: THE WORD ΠΑΡΟΨΙΣ.]