His neighbour (called the Greek), was born at Athens; he is the fashionable purveyor to the princes, senators, and sybarites of Rome. No one understands so well as himself the art of mixing salt, oil, and milk with the best wheaten flour; an exquisite combination, which produces the celebrated bread of Cappadocia, served only on the tables of the wealthy.[IV-71] With the _artoplites_, a light bread, made with the best wheaten flour, and baked in a mould, it is the only kind of which refined persons can partake.[IV-72] If we were not afraid of tiring you, we could point out many other sorts of bread which abound in the _Forum Pistrinum_, for there is some for all tastes and classes, from the _artopticii_, baked in moulds,[IV-73] a most nutritious and digestive bread, down to the _furfuraceus_, a mass of indigestible bran that the wildest savages among the Scythians could not have swallowed with impunity. We should have spoken to you of the _astrologicus_ bread, the paste of which is similar to that we use in our days to make fritters, commonly called batter. Also of the _cacabaceus_, which is indebted for its agreeable and spicy flavour to the water, which is previously boiled in a kind of bronzed stewpan; and the _siligineus_ bread, made of the best flour. Its manipulation is difficult and tedious; no matter--the epicurean prefers it, when, by chance, he happens to be hungry.[IV-74] Neither ought we to forget the _panis madidus_, a species of paste made of milk and flour, with which the fashionable ladies and effeminate dandies covered their faces before going to bed, to preserve the freshness and beauty of their complexion.[IV-75] But this enumeration may appear to you idle and endless; let us, therefore, leave the market and assist at the distribution of bread _civilis_ among the people, of which thirteen ounces is given to each person;[IV-76] we will then give a rapid glance at the various other _cereals_ besides wheat, which, in some shape or other, are converted into food. DESCRIPTION OF PLATE No. VII. BREAD.--No. 1. In Herculaneum there were found two entire loaves of the same dimension, being 13½ inches in diameter, and 3½ inches thick. Each had eight divisions cut on the top, that is to say,--a cross was first marked, and between each, another division was made; some had stamps on the top. No. 2. At Pompeii, in a shop near the Pantheon, were discovered bronze moulds for pastry and bread. No. 3. The Cappadocia bread, made in a mould, found at Pompeii. No. 4. The mould for the above. The customs of the middle ages cannot be better illustrated than by adding the following curious notes: The Norman kings subjected the bakers to very severe laws with [Illustration: _Pl. 7._] respect to the weight and price of bread. The first offence was punished by the confiscation of their bread; the second by a fine; and the third by the pillory.[IV-77]