But for such men there's an old answer fitting, "That may be your opinion, this is mine." But with good arguments one may persuade The wise with ease: for always men of sense Do prove the easiest pupils. 5. And my excellent friend Myrtilus,—for I have taken the words out of your mouth, Antiphanes,—in his Bœotian, has used this word παροψὶς for a vessel, where he says— After she has invited you to supper, She sets before you a παροψὶς full of . . . . And Alexis, in his Hesione, says— But when he saw two men well loaded with The table and conveying it indoors, Groaning beneath a number of παροψίδες, Looking no more at me, he said . . . . And the man who was the author of the plays which are attributed to Magnes, says in his first Bacchus— These things are now παροψίδες of ill to me. And Achæus, in his Æthnon, a satyric drama, says— And let these savoury boil'd and roasted meats On the παροψιόδες be carved in pieces. And Sotades the comic writer says, in his Man wrongly Ransomed— I a παροψὶς seem to Crobylus. Him he devours alone, but me he takes But as a seasoning to something else. But the word is used in an ambiguous sense by Xenophon, in the first book of his Cyropædia. For the philosopher says, "They brought him παροψίδας, and condiments of all sorts, and food of all kinds." And in the works of the author of Chiron, which is usually attributed to Pherecrates, the word παροψὶς is used for seasoning; and not, as Didymus, in his treatise on Words used in a Corrupted Sense, asserts, for a vessel. For he says— By Jove, as παροψιόδες are praised or blamed Because of the way in which they flavour meat, So Caletas esteems these people nothing. And Nicophon, in his Sirens, says— Others may fight the παροψὶς for their seat. And Aristophanes says, in his Dædalus,— All women have one set of principles, And have a lover, like a παροψὶς, ready. And Plato says, in his Festivals,— Whence barley-cakes may be got, and παροψίδες. But he is speaking here of cooking and seasoning onions. But the Attic writers, O my Syri-Attic friend Ulpian, use ἔμβαμμα also in this sense; as Theopompus says, in his Peace:— Bread's a good thing; but flattery and tricks, When added as a seasoning (ἔμβαμμα) to bread, Are odious as can be. 6. When speaking of hams, they use the two forms κωλῆ and κωλήν. Eupolis, in his Autolycus, says— The legs and hams (κῳλῆες) out of the soup. And Euripides, in his Sciron, says— Nor hams (κωλῆνες) of kids. But the word κωλῆ is contracted from κωλέα, as συκῆ from συκέα, λεοντῆ from λεοντέα; so κωλῆ from κωλέα. Aristophanes, in his second Plutus, says— Alas the ham (κωλῆς) which I have just devour'd! And in his Daitaleis he says— And the fat hams (κωλαὶ) of tender little pigs And dainty tit-bits swift to fly. And in his Storks he says— The heads of lambs, the hams (κωλὰς) of kids. And Plato, in his Griffins, says—