_A._ Four tables did I mention to you of women, And six of men; a supper, too, complete— In no one single thing deficient; Wishing the marriage-feast to be a splendid one. _B._ Ask no one else; I will myself go round, Provide for everything, and report to you. . . . . . As many kinds of olives as you please; For meat, you've veal, and sucking-pig, and pork, And hares— _A._ Hear how this cursed fellow boasts! _B._ Forced-meat in fig-leaves, cheese, cheesecakes in moulds— _A._ Here, Dromo! _B._ Candyli, eggs, cakes of meal. And then the table is three cubits high; So that all those who sit around must rise Whene'er they wish to help themselves to anything. There was a kind of cheesecake called ἄμης. Antiphanes enumerates ἄμητες, ἄμυλοι; and Menander, in his Supposititious Son, says— You would be glad were any one to dress A cheesecake (ἄμητα) for you. But the Ionians, as Seleucus tells us in his Dialects, make the accusative case ἄμην; and they call small cheesecakes of the same kind ἀμητίσκοι. Teleclides says— Thrushes flew of their own accord Right down my throat with savoury ἀμητίσκοι. 53. There was also a kind called διακόνιον:— He was so greedy that he ate a whole Diaconium up, besides an amphiphon. But the ἀμφιφῶν was a kind of cheesecake consecrated to Diana, having figures of lighted torches round it. Philemon, in his Beggar, or Woman of Rhodes, says— Diana, mistress dear, I bring you now This amphiphon, and these libations holy. Diphilus also mentions it in his Hecate. Philochorus also mentions the fact of its being called ἀμφιφῶν, and of its being brought into the temples of Diana, and also to the places where three roads meet, on the day when the moon is overtaken at its setting by the rising of the sun; and so the heaven is ἀμφιφῶς, or all over light. There is the basynias too. Semus, in the second book of the Deliad, says—"In the island of Hecate, the Delians sacrifice to Iris, offering her the cheesecakes called basyniæ; and this is a cake of wheat-flour, and suet, and honey, boiled up together: and what is called κόκκωρα consists of a fig and three nuts." [Sidenote: CHEESECAKES.] There are also cheesecakes called strepti and neëlata. Both these kinds are mentioned by Demosthenes the orator, in his Speech in Defence of Ctesiphon concerning the Crown. There are also epichyta. Nicochares, in his Handicraftsmen, says— I've loaves, and barley-cakes, and bran, and flour, And rolls, obelias, and honey'd cheesecakes, Epichyti, ptisan, and common cheesecakes, Dendalides, and fried bread. But Pamphilus says that the ἐπίχυτος is the same kind of cheesecake as that which is called ἀττανίτης. And Hipponax mentions the ἀττανίτης in the following lines:—