A slut, a wine-bibber—her only care
Is to supply the cravings of the day,
To eat and drink—to masticate and tipple.
The eagle and herself are fittest parallels.
In the first prime and lustlihood of youth,
The mountain king ne'er quits his royal eyrie,
But lamb, or straggling sheep, or earth-couch'd hare,
Caught in his grip, repays the fierce descent:
But when old age hath sapp'd his mettle's vigour,
He sits upon the temple tops, forlorn,
In all the squalid wretchedness of famine,
And merely serves to point an augurs tale.
Just such another prodigy is Laïs!
Full teeming coffers swell'd her pride of youth:
Her person ever fresh and new, your satrap
Was more accessible than she;—but now,
That life is flagging at the goal, and like
An unstrung lute, her limbs are out of tune,
She is become so lavish of her presence,
That being daily swallow'd by men's eyes,
They surfeit at the sight.
She's grown companion to the common streets—
Want her who will, a stater, a three-obol piece,
Or a mere draught of wine brings her to hand!
Nay, place a silver stiver in your palm,
And, shocking tameness! she will stoop forthwith
To pick it out.—MITCHELL.
_The same._
Laïs herself's a lazy drunkard now,
And looks to nothing but her daily wine
And daily meat. There has befallen her
What happens to the eagle; who, when young,
Swoops from the mountain in his pride of strength,
And hurries off on high the sheep and hare;
But, when he's aged, sits him dully down
Upon some temple's top, weak, lean, and starved;
And this is thought a direful prodigy.
And Laïs would be rightly reckon'd one;
For when she was a nestling, fair and youthful,
The guineas made her fierce; and you might see
E'en Pharnabázus easier than her.
But now that her years are running four-mile heats,
And all the junctures of her frame are loose,
'Tis easy both to see and spit upon her;
And she will go to any drinking-bout;
And take a crown-piece, aye, or e'en a sixpence,
And welcome all men, be they old or young.
Nay, she's become so tame, my dearest sir,
She'll even take the money from your hand.—WALSH.
* * * * *
PLATO. (Book xiii. § 56, p. 940.)
Archianássa's my own one,
The sweet courtesan, Colophónian;
E'en from her wrinkles I feel
Love's irresistible steel!
O ye wretches, whose hunger
Was raised for her when she was younger!
Through what flames, alas,
Must she have forced you to pass!—WALSH.
* * * * *
HERMESIANAX. (Book xiii. § 71, p. 953.)
Such was the nymph, whom Orpheus led
From the dark regions of the dead,
Where Charon with his lazy boat
Ferries o'er Lethe's sedgy moat;
Th' undaunted minstrel smites the strings,
His strain through hell's vast concave rings:
Cocytus hears the plaintive theme,
And refluent turns his pitying stream;
Three-headed Cerberus, by fate
Posted at Pluto's iron gate,
Low-crouching rolls his haggard eyes
Ecstatic, and foregoes his prize;
With ears erect at hell's wide doors
Lies listening, as the songster soars:
Thus music charm'd the realms beneath,
And beauty triumph'd over death.
The bard, whom night's pale regent bore,
In secret, on the Athenian shore,
Musæus, felt the sacred flame,
And burnt for the fair Theban dame
Antiope, whom mighty Love
Made pregnant by imperial Jove;
The poet plied his amorous strain,
Press'd the fond fair, nor press'd in vain,
For Ceres, who the veil undrew,
That screen'd her mysteries from his view,
Propitious this kind truth reveal'd,
That woman close besieged will yield.
Old Hesiod too his native shade
Made vocal to th' Ascrean maid;
The bard his heav'n-directed lore
Forsook, and hymn'd the gods no more:
Soft love-sick ditties now he sung,
Love touch'd his harp, love tuned his tongue,
Silent his Heliconian lyre,
And love's put out religion's fire.
Homer, of all past bards the prime,
And wonder of all future time,
Whom Jove with wit sublimely blest,
And touch'd with purest fire his breast,
From gods and heroes turn'd away
To warble the domestic lay,
And wand'ring to the desert isle,
On whose parch'd sands no seasons smile,
In distant Ithaca was seen
Chanting the suit-repelling Queen.
Mimnermus tuned his amorous lay,
When time had turn'd his temples grey;
Love revell'd in his aged veins,
Soft was his lyre, and sweet his strains;
Frequenter of the wanton feast,
Nanno his theme, and youth his guest.
Antimachus with tender art
Pour'd forth the sorrows of his heart;
In her Dardanian grave he laid
Chryseis his beloved maid;
And thence returning, sad beside
Pactolus' melancholy tide,
To Colophon the minstrel came,
Still sighing forth the mournful name,
Till lenient time his grief appeased,
And tears by long indulgence ceased.
Alcæus strung his sounding lyre,
And smote it with a hand of fire,
To Sappho, fondest of the fair,
Chanting the loud and lofty air.
Whilst old Anacreon, wet with wine,
And crown'd with wreaths of Lesbian vine,
* * * * * *
E'en Sophocles, whose honey'd lore
Rivals the bee's delicious store,
Chorus'd the praise of wine and love,
Choicest of all the gifts of Jove.
Euripides, whose tragic breast
No yielding fair one ever press'd,
At length in his obdurate heart
Felt love's revengeful rankling dart,
* * * * * *
'Till vengeance met him in the way,
And bloodhounds made the bard their prey.
Philoxenus, by wood-nymphs bred
On famed Cythæron's sacred head,
And train'd to music, wine, and song,
'Midst orgies of the frantic throng,
When beauteous Galatea died,
His flute and thyrsus cast aside;
And wand'ring to thy pensive coast,
Sad Melos! where his love was lost,
Each night through the responsive air
Thy echoes witness'd his despair:
Still, still his plaintive harp was heard,
Soft as the nightly-singing bird.
Philetas too in Battis' praise
Sung his long-winded roundelays;
His statue in the Coan grove
Now breathes in brass perpetual love.
The mortified abstemious sage,
Deep read in learning's crabbed page,
Pythagoras, whose boundless soul
Scaled the wide globe from pole to pole,
Earth, planets, seas, and heav'n above,
Yet found no spot secure from love;
With love declines unequal war,
And trembling drags his conqueror's car;
Theano clasp'd him in her arms,
And wisdom stoop'd to beauty's charms.
E'en Socrates, whose moral mind
With truth enlighten'd all mankind,
When at Aspasia's side he sate,
Still found no end to love's debate;
For strong indeed must be that heart,
Where love finds no unguarded part.
Sage Aristippus by right rule
Of logic purged the Sophist's school,
Check'd folly in its headlong course,
And swept it down by reason's force;
'Till Venus aim'd the heart-felt blow,
And laid the mighty victor low.—CUMBERLAND.
_The same._
I.
Orpheus,—Œagrus' son,—thou know'st full well,—
The Thracian harper,—how with magic skill,
Inspired by love, he struck the chorded shell,
And made the shades obedient to his will,
As from the nether gloom to light he led
His love Agriope. He to Pluto's land,
Baleful and cheerless, region of the dead,
Sail'd far away,—and sought th' infernal strand,
Where Charon, gaunt and grim, his hollow bark
(Fraught with departed souls, an airy crowd)
Steers o'er the Stygian billow dun and dark,
And with a voice of thunder bellows loud
O'er the slow pool, that scarcely creeps along
Through sedge, and weedy ooze: but nathless he,
On the lone margent, pour'd his love-sick song,
And charm'd Hell's monsters with his minstrelsy.
Cocytus scowl'd,—but grinn'd a ghastly smile,
Albeit unused to the relenting mood:
Cerb'rus, three-mouth'd, stopp'd short,—and paused the while,
Low-crouching, list'ning, (for the sounds were good)
Silent his throat of flame, his eyes of fire
Quench'd in ecstatic slumber, as he lay.
Thus Hell's stern rulers hearken'd to his lyre,
And gave the fair one back to upper day.
II.
Nor did Musæus, Luna's heav'nly child,
And high-priest of the Graces, leave unsung
The fair Antiope, in accents wild,
As fell th' impassion'd language from his tongue:
Who woo'd of many suitors, at the shrine
Of mystic Ceres, by Eleusis' brow,
Chanted the high response in strains divine,—
And oped the secret springs,—and taught to know
The heav'n-drawn truths, in holy rapture lost.
But nought avail'd her zeal;—in evil hour,
Theme of the lyre below, her hopes were cross'd:
Death cropp'd the stalk, that bore so fair a flow'r.
III.
I tell thee too, that the Bœotian bard,
Sage Hesiod, quitted the Cumæan shore,
A wand'rer not unwilling,—afterward
In Heliconian Ascra seen to soar,
Deathless upon the mighty wings of fame.
'Twas there he woo'd Eœa, peerless maid,—
And strove to achieve her love,—and with her name
Prefaced his verse, with hallow'd lore inlaid.
IV.
Enravish'd Homer, ward of Fate from Jove,
Prince of melodious numbers, toil'd his way
To barren Ithaca,—and tuned, for love
Of chaste Penelope, the am'rous lay;
Forgot his native land, and bade adieu
To wide Ionia, for the island drear,
And wail'd Icarius' house, and Sparta too,
And dropp'd himself the sympathetic tear.
V.
Mimnermus, school'd in hardship, who first taught
To breathe soft airs of elegiac song,
Fair Nanno ask'd, and had; and often sought,
As by her side he blithely trudged along,
The merry wake,—a ready piper arm'd
With mouth-piece aptly fitted: and with worse
Than deadly hate and indignation warm'd,
Hermobius and Pherecles lash'd in verse.
VI.
Antimachus, for beauteous Lyda's love,
Hied him to rich Pactolus' golden tide:
But, well-a-day! his bliss stern Fate unwove;
Short was her doom,—in Pergamus she died,—
And in her grave was laid in prime of age.
He, full of lamentation, journey'd on
To Colophon,—and on the sacred page
Enter'd his tale, and ceased, his mission done.
VII.
And well thou know'st, how famed Alcæus smote
Of his high harp the love-enliven'd strings,
And raised to Sappho's praise th' enamour'd note,
Midst noise of mirth and jocund revellings:
Ay, he did love that nightingale of song
With all a lover's fervour,—and, as he
Deftly attuned the lyre, to madness stung
The Teian bard with envious jealousy.
For her Anacreon, charming lyrist, woo'd,
And fain would win, with sweet mellifluous chime,
Encircled by her Lesbian sisterhood;—
Would often Samos leave, and many a time,
From vanquish'd Teos' viny orchards, hie
To viny Lesbos' isle,—and from the shore,
O'er the blue wave, on Lectum cast his eye,
And think on by-gone days, and times no more.
VIII.
And how, from, steep Colonus' rocky height,
On lightsome pinions borne, the Attic bee
Sail'd through the air, and wing'd her honied flight,
And sang of love and wine melodiously
In choric numbers: for ethereal Jove
Bestow'd on Sophocles Archippe's charms,
Albeit in eve of life,—and gave to love
And fold the yielding fair one in his arms.
IX.
Nay, I aver, in very sooth, that he,
Dead from his birth to love, to beauty blind,
Who, by quaint rules of cold philosophy,
Contemn'd the sex, and hated womankind,—
That he,—e'en he,—with all his stoic craft,
Cave to imperial Love unwilling way,
And, sore empierced with Cupid's tyrant shaft,
Could neither sleep by night, nor rest by day;
What time, in Archelaus' regal hall,
Ægino, graceful handmaid, viands brought
Of choicest savour, to her master's call
Obsequious, or wine's impurpled draught:
Nor didst thou cease, through streets and highways broad,
Euripides! to chase the royal slave,
Till vengeance met thee, in his angry mood,
And deep-mouth'd bloodhounds tore thee to the grave.
X.
And him too of Cythera,—foster child
Of all the Muses, train'd to love and song,—
Philoxenus,—thou knowest,—how with wild
And loud acclaim, (as late he pass'd along
Through Colophon,) and shouts of joyfulness,
The air was riv'n: for thou didst hear the tale
Of Galatea lost, fair shepherdess,
Whom e'en the firstlings of her flock bewail.
XI.
Nor is Philetas' name to thee unknown,
Than whom a sweeter minstrel never was;
Whose statue lives in his own native town,
Hallow'd to fame, and breathes in deathless brass,
Under a platane,—seeming still to praise
The nimble Bittis, in the Coan grove,
With am'rous ditties, and harmonious lays,
And all the art, and all the warmth of love.
XII.
And they of humankind, (to crown my song,)
Who, in th' austereness of their life, pursued
Knowledge abstruse, her mazy paths among,—
And sought for hidden lore,—and ceaseless woo'd
The Muse severe, couching her doctrines sage
In cogent language, marring ev'ry clog
To intellectual sense, on reason's page;—
Or, in the philosophic dialogue,
Moulded th' important truths, they meant to prove,
In milder form, and pleased and reason'd too;—
And these confess'd the mighty power of Love,
And bow'd the neck, nor could his yoke eschew.
XIII.
Pythagoras, the Samian sage, who taught
To solve the knots, perplex and intricate,
Of fair geometry, and whilom brought
Into a narrow sphere's brief compass strait
The stars of heav'n, in order absolute;
With frantic passion woo'd Theano's charms,
Infuriate,—nor ceased his am'rous suit,
Till he had clasp'd the damsel in his arms.
XIV.
And what a flame of love the Paphian queen
Lit, in her wrath, in the enamour'd breast
Of Socrates,—whom of the sons of men
Apollo named the wisest and the best!
He in Aspasia's house each lighter care
Chased from his breast, when at her side he sate
In am'rous parley,—and, still ling'ring there,
Could find no end to love, or love's debate.
XV.
Shrewd Aristippus, Cyrenean sage,
To the Corinthian Isthmus' double shore
Wended his way, his passion to assuage,—
And shunn'd the calm retreats he loved before;
Forsook the far-famed Athens,—inly moved
By Laïs' charms, by Laïs lured astray,—
And in voluptuous Eph'ra lived,—and loved,—
From Academic bowers far away.—J. BAILEY.
* * * * *
_Part of the same._ (P. 954.)
With her the sweet Anacreon stray'd,
Begirt with many a Lesbian maid;
And fled for her the Samian strand,
For her his vine-clad native land—
A bleeding country left the while
For wine and love in Sappho's isle.—ANON.
* * * * *
ANACREON. (Book xiii. § 72, p. 955.)
_Anacreon._—Spirit of love, whose tresses shine
Along the breeze in golden twine;
Come, within a fragrant cloud,
Blushing with light, thy votary shroud;
And, on those wings that sparkling play,
Waft, oh! waft me hence away!
Love! my soul is full of thee,
Alive to all thy luxury.
But she, the nymph for whom I glow,
The pretty Lesbian, mocks my woe;
Smiles at the hoar and silver'd hues
Which time upon my forehead strews.
Alas! I fear she keeps her charms
In store for younger, happier arms!
_Sappho._—Oh Muse! who sitt'st on golden throne,
Full many a hymn of dulcet tone
The Teian sage is taught by thee;
But, goddess, from thy throne of gold,
The sweetest hymn thou'st ever told,
He lately learn'd and sang for me.—THOS. MOORE.
_The same._
Pelting with a purple ball,
Bright-hair'd Cupid gives the call,
And tries his antics one and all,
My steps to her to wile;
But she—for thousands round her vie—
Casts on my tell-tale locks her eye,
And bids the grey-hair'd poet sigh—
Another wins her smile!—ANON.
* * * * *
ALCMAN. (Book xiii. § 75, p. 958.)
Again sweet Love, by Cytherea led,
Hath all my soul possest;
Again delicious rapture shed
In torrents o'er my breast.
Now Megalostrata the fair,
Of all the Virgin train
Most blessed—with her yellow floating hair—
Hath brought me to the Muses' holy fane,
To flourish there.—BLAND.
* * * * *
IBYCUS. (Book xiii. § 76, p. 958.)
What time soft Zephyrs fan the trees
In the blest gardens of th' Hesperides,
Where those bright golden apples glow,
Fed by the fruitful streams that round them flow,
And new-born clusters teem with wine
Beneath the shadowy foliage of the vine;
To me the joyous season brings
But added torture on his sunny wings.
Then Love, the tyrant of my breast,
Impetuous ravisher of joy and rest,
Bursts, furious, from his mother's arms,
And fills my trembling soul with new alarms;
Like Boreas from his Thracian plains,
Clothed in fierce lightnings, in my bosom reigns,
And rages still, the madd'ning power—
His parching flames my wither'd heart devour;
Wild Phrensy comes my senses o'er,
Sweet Peace is fled, and Reason rules no more.—BLAND.
* * * * *
CHÆREMON. (Book xiii. § 87, p. 970.)
One to the silver lustre of the moon,
In graceful, careless, attitude reclined,
Display'd her snowy bosom, full unzoned
In all its naked loveliness: another
Led up the sprightly dance; and as she moved,
Her loose robes gently floating, the light breeze
Lifted her vest, and to the enraptured eye
Uncover'd her left breast. Gods! what a sight!
What heavenly whiteness! breathing and alive,
A swelling picture!—This from eyelids dark
Beam'd forth a ray of such celestial light,
As dazzled whilst it charm'd. A fourth appear'd,
Her beauties half uncover'd, and display'd
Her delicate arm, and taper fingers, small,
And round, and white as polish'd ivory.
Another yet, with garment loosely thrown
Across her neck and shoulders; as she moved,
The am'rous zephyrs drew aside her robe,
Exposed her pliant limbs, full, round, and fair,
Such as the Paphian Goddess might have own'd.
Love smiled at my surprise, shook his light wings,
And mark'd me for his victim.—Others threw
Their careless limbs upon the bank bedeck'd
With odoriferous herbs, and blossoms rare,
Such as the earth produced from Helen's tears,
The violet with dark leaves, the crocus too,
That gave a warm tint to their flowing robes,
And marjoram sweet of Persia rear'd its head
To deck the verdant spot.—ANON.
_The same._
There one reclined apart I saw, within the moon's pale light,
With bosom through her parted robe appearing snowy white:
Another danced, and floating free her garments in the breeze,
She seem'd as buoyant as the wave that leaps o'er summer seas;
While dusky shadows all around shrunk backward from the place,
Chased by the beaming splendour shed like sunshine from her face.
Beside this living picture stood a maiden passing fair,
With soft round arms exposed: a fourth, with free and graceful air,
Like Dian when the bounding hart she tracks through morning dew,
Bared through the opening of her robes her lovely limbs to view.
And oh! the image of her charms, as clouds in heaven above,
Mirror'd by streams, left on my soul the stamp of hopeless love.
And slumbering near them others lay, on beds of sweetest flowers,
The dusky-petal'd violet, the rose of Paphian bowers,
The inula and saffron flower, which on their garments cast
And veils, such hues as deck the sky when day is ebbing fast;
While far and near tall marjoram bedeck'd the fairy ground,
Loading with sweets the vagrant winds that frolick'd all around.
—J. A. ST. JOHN.
* * * * *
SEMOS. (Book xiv. § 2, p. 979.)
Poor mortal unmerry, who seekest to know
What will bid thy brow soften, thy quips and cranks flow,
To the house of the mother I bid thee repair—
Thou wilt find, if she's pleased, what thy heart covets there.
—J. A. ST. JOHN.
* * * * *
MELANIPPIDES. (Book xiv. § 7, p. 984.)
But Athené flung away
From her pure hand those noxious instruments
It late had touch'd, and thus did say—
"Hence, ye banes of beauty, hence;
What? shall I my charms disgrace
By making such an odious face?"—BLAND.
* * * * *
PRATINAS. (Book xiv. § 8, p. 985.)
What means this tumult? Why this rage?
What thunder shakes th' Athenian stage?
'Tis frantic Bromius bids me sing,
He tunes the pipe, he smites the string;
The Dryads with their chief accord,
Submit, and hail the drama's lord.
Be still! and let distraction cease,
Nor thus profane the Muse's peace;
By sacred fiat I preside,
The minstrel's master and his guide;
He, whilst the chorus strains proceed,
Shall follow with responsive reed;
To measured notes whilst they advance,
He in wild maze shall lead the dance.
So generals in the front appear,
Whilst music echoes from the rear.
Now silence each discordant sound!
For see, with ivy chaplet crown'd,
Bacchus appears! He speaks in me—
Hear, and obey the god's decree!—CUMBERLAND.
_The same._
What revel-rout is this? What noise is here?
What barb'rous discord strikes my ear?
What jarring sounds are these, that rage
Unholy on the Bacchic stage?
'Tis mine to sing in Bromius' praise—
'Tis mine to laud the god in dithyrambic lays—
As o'er the mountain's height,
The woodland Nymphs among,
I wing my rapid flight,
And tune my varied song,
Sweet as the melody of swans,—that lave
Their rustling pennons in the silver wave.
Of the harmonious lay the Muse is sovereign still:
Then let the minstrel follow, if he will—
But not precede: whose stricter care should be,
And more appropriate aim,
To fan the lawless flame
Of fiery youths, and lead them on
To deeds of drunkenness alone,
The minister of revelry—
When doors, with many a sturdy stroke,
Fly from their bolts, to shivers broke,
And captive beauty yields, but is not won.
Down with the Phrygian pipe's discordant sound!
Crackle, ye flames! and burn the monster foul
To very ashes—in whose notes are found
Nought but what's harsh and flat,—no music for the soul,—
The work of some vile handicraft. To thee,
Great Dithyrambus! ivy-tressèd king!
I stretch my hand—'tis here—and rapidly
My feet in airy mazes fling.
Listen my Doric lay; to thee, to thee I sing.—J. BAILEY.
* * * * *
ALEXIS. (Book xiv. § 15, p. 991.)
Now if a native
Doctor prescribe, "Give him a porringer
Of ptisan in the morning," we despise him.
But in some _brogue_ disguised 'tis admirable.
Thus he who speaks of _Beet_ is slighted, while
We prick our ears if he but mention _Bate_,
As if _Bate_ knew some virtue not in _Beet_.—J. A. ST. JOHN.
* * * * *
SEMOS. (Book xiv. § 16, p. 992.)
Make way there, a wide space
Yield to the god;
For Dionysos has a mind to walk
Bolt upright through your midst.—J. A. ST. JOHN.
* * * * *
SEMOS. (Book xiv. § 16, p. 992.)
Bacchus, to thee our muse belongs,
Of simple chant, and varied lays;
Nor fit for virgin ears our songs,
Nor handed down from ancient days:
Fresh flows the strain we pour to thee,
Patron of joy and minstrelsy!—J. A. ST. JOHN.
* * * * *
ALCÆUS. (Book xiv. § 23, p. 1000.)
Glitters with brass my mansion wide;
The roof is deck'd on every side
In martial pride,
With helmets ranged in order bright
And plumes of horse-hair nodding white,
A gallant sight—
—Fit ornament for warrior's brow—
And round the walk, in goodly row,
Refulgent glow
Stout greaves of brass like burnish'd gold,
And corslets there, in many a fold
Of linen roll'd;
And shields that in the battle fray
The routed losers of the day
Have cast away;
Eubœan falchions too are seen,
With rich embroider'd belts between
Of dazzing sheen:
And gaudy surcoats piled around,
The spoils of chiefs in war renown'd,
May there be found.
These, and all else that here you see,
Are fruits of glorious victory
Achieved by me.—BLAND.
* * * * *
(Book xiv. § 27, p. 1004.)
Where is my lovely parsley, say?
My violets, roses, where are they?
My parsley, roses, violets fair,
Where are my flowers? Tell me where.—J. A. ST. JOHN.
* * * * *
PHILETÆRUS. (Book xiv. § 34, p. 1011.)
O Zeus! how glorious 'tis to die while piercing flutes are near,
Pouring their stirring melodies into the faltering ear;
On these alone doth Eros smile, within whose realms of night,
Where vulgar ghosts in shivering bands, all strangers to delight,
In leaky tub from Styx's flood the icy waters bear,
Condemn'd, for woman's lovely voice, its moaning sounds to hear.
—J. A. ST. JOHN.
* * * * *
ATHENION. (Book xiv. § 80, p. 1056.)
_A._ What! know you not that cookery has much
Contributed to piety? attend,
And I will tell you how. This art at first
Made the fierce cannibal a man; impress'd
Upon his rugged nature the desire
Of better food than his own flesh; prescribed
Order and rule in all his actions; gave him
That polish and respect for social life
Which now makes up his sum of happiness.
_B._ Say by what means.
_A._ Attend and you shall hear.
Time was that men, like rude and savage beasts,
Prey'd on each other. From such bloody feasts
A flood of evils burst upon the world;
Till one arose, much wiser than the rest,
And chose a tender victim from his flock
For sacrifice; roasting the flesh, he found
The savoury morsel good, and better far
Than human carcass, from which time roast meat
Became the general food, approved by all.
In order to create variety
Of the same dish, the art of cookery
Began t' invent new modes of dressing it.
In off'rings to the gods we still preserve
The ancient custom, and abstain from salt;
For in those early days salt was not used,
Though now we have it in abundance; still,
In solemn sacrifices, we conform
To usage of old times: in private meals
He who can season best is the best cook,
And the desire of savoury meat inspires
The invention of new sauces, which conduce
To bring the art of cookery to perfection.
_B._ You are, indeed, a new Palæphatus.
_A._ Use gave experience, and experience skill.
As cooks acquired more knowledge, they prepared
The delicate tripe, with nice ingredients mix'd,
To give it a new relish; follow'd soon
The tender kid, sew'd up between two covers,
Stew'd delicately down, and smoking hot,
That melted in the mouth; the savoury hash
Came next, and that disguised with so much art,
And season'd with fresh herbs, and pungent sauce,
That you would think it most delicious fish.
Then salted meats, with store of vegetables,
And fragrant honey, till the pamper'd taste,
High fed with luscious dainties, grew too nice
To feed on human garbage, and mankind
Began to feel the joys of social life;
The scatter'd tribes unite; towns soon were built
And peopled with industrious citizens.
These and a thousand other benefits
Were the result of cookery alone.
_B._ Oh, rare! where will this end?
_A._ To us you owe
The costly sacrifice, we slay the victims,
We pour the free libations, and to us
The gods themselves lend a propitious ear,
And for our special merits scatter blessings
On all the human race; because from us
And from our art, mankind were first induced
To live the life of reason, and the gods
Received due honour.
_B._ Prithee rest awhile,
And leave religion out.—ANON.
_The same._
The art of cookery drew us gently forth
From that ferocious life, when void of faith
The Anthropophaginian ate his brother!
To cookery we owe well-order'd states,
Assembling men in dear society.
Wild was the earth, man feasting upon man,
When one of nobler sense and milder heart
First sacrificed an animal; the flesh
Was sweet; and man then ceased to feed on man!
And something of the rudeness of those times
The priest commemorates; for to this day
He roasts the victim's entrails without salt.
In those dark times, beneath the earth lay hid
The precious salt, that gold of cookery!
But when its particles the palate thrill'd,
The source of seasonings, charm of cookery! came.
They served a paunch with rich ingredients stored;
And tender kid, within two covering plates,
Warm melted in the mouth. So art improved!
At length a miracle not yet perform'd,
They minced the meat, which roll'd in herbage soft,
Nor meat nor herbage seem'd, but to the eye,
And to the taste, the counterfeited dish
Mimick'd some curious fish; invention rare!
Then every dish was season'd more and more,
Salted, or sour, or sweet, and mingled oft
Oatmeal and honey. To enjoy the meal
Men congregated in the populous towns,
And cities flourish'd, which we cooks adorn'd
With all the pleasures of domestic life.—D'ISRAELI.
_The same._
_Cook._ Do you not know that cookery has brought
More aids to piety than aught besides?
_Slave._ What? is the matter thus?
_Cook._ Yes, you Barbarian!
It freed us from a beast-like, faithless life,
And hateful cannibalism, and introduced us
To order, and enclosed us in the world
Where we now live.
_Slave._ How?
_Cook._ Listen, and I'll tell you.
When cannibalism and many other crimes
Were rife, a certain man, who was no fool,
Slaughter'd a victim and then roasted it.
So, when they found its flesh nicer than man's flesh,
They did not eat each other any longer,
But sacrificed their beasts and roasted them.
And when they once had tasted of this pleasure,
And a beginning had been made, they carried
To greater heights the art of cookery.
Hence, from remembrance of the past, men roast
E'en to the present day the gods' meat-offerings
Without employing salt; for in olden times
It had not yet been used for such a purpose;
So when their taste changed afterwards, they ate
Salt also with their meat, still strictly keeping
Their fathers' custom in the rites prescribed them.
All which new ingenuity, and raising
To greater heights the art of cookery,
By means of sauces, has alone become
The cause of safety unto all of us.
_Slave._ This fellow is a fresh Palæphatus!
_Cook._ Then, after this, as time was now advancing,
One person introduced a season'd haggis;
Another stew'd a kid right exquisitely,
Or made some mince-meat, or slipp'd in a fish
Disguised so quaintly that no eye observed it,
Or greens, or pickled fish, or wheat, or honey.
When through the pleasures that I'm now explaining,
Each man was far removed from ever wishing
To eat a portion of a human corpse;
They all agreed to live with one another—
A populace collected—towns were built—
All through the cooking art, as I have shown.
_Slave._ Good-bye; you fit your master to a wrinkle.
_Cook._ It is we cooks who clip the victim's hair,
And sacrifice, and offer up libations,
Because the gods attend to us especially,
As it was we who made these great discoveries,
Which tend especially towards holy living.
_Slave._ Pray leave off talking about piety!
_Cook._ I beg your pardon. Come and take a snack
Along with me, and get the things prepared.—ANON.
* * * * *
CRATINUS. (Book xiv. § 81, p. 1057.)
On the light wring of Zephyr that thitherward blows,
What a dainty perfume has invaded my nose;
And sure in yon copse, if we carefully look,
Dwells a dealer in scents, or Sicilian cook!—W. J. B.
* * * * *
BATO. (Book xiv. § 81, p. 1058.)
Good, good, Sibynna!
Ours is no art for sluggards to acquire,
Nor should the hour of deepest midnight see
Us and our volumes parted:—still our lamp
Upon its oil is feeding, and the page
Of ancient lore before us:—What, what hath
The Sicyonian deduced?—What school-points
Have we from him of Chios? sagest Actides
And Zopyrinus, what are their traditions?—
Thus grapple we with mighty tomes of wisdom,
Sifting and weighing and digesting all.—ANON.
* * * * *
AMPHIS. (Book xv. § 42, p. 1103.)
_A._ Milesian hangings line your walls, you scent
Your limbs with sweetest perfume, royal myndax
Piled on the burning censer fills the air
With costly fragrance.
_B._ Mark you that, my friend!
Knew you before of such a fumigation?—J. A. ST. JOHN.
* * * * *
ALEXIS. (Book xv. § 44, p. 1105.)
Nor fell
His perfumes from a box of alabaster;
That were too trite a fancy, and had savour'd
O' the elder time—but ever and anon
He slipp'd four doves, whose wings were saturate
With scents, all different in kind—each bird
Bearing its own appropriate sweets:—these doves,
Wheeling in circles round, let fall upon us
A shower of sweet perfumery, drenching, bathing
Both clothes and furniture—and lordlings all—
I deprecate your envy, when I add,
That on myself fell floods of violet odours.—MITCHELL.
* * * * *
SIMONIDES. (Book xv. § 50, p. 1110.)
Oh! Health, it is the choicest boon Heaven can send us,
And Beauty's arms, bright and keen, deck and defend us;
Next follows honest Wealth—riches abounding—
And Youth's pleasant holidays—friendship surrounding.
—D. K. SANDFORD.
* * * * *
(Book xv. § 50, p. 1110.)
With his claw the snake surprising,
Thus the crab kept moralizing:—
"Out on sidelong turns and graces,
Straight's the word for honest paces!"—D. K. SANDFORD.
* * * * *
CALLISTRATUS. (Book xv. § 50, p. 1111.)
Wreathed with myrtles be my glaive.
Like the falchion of the brave,
Death to Athens' lord that gave.
Death to tyranny!
Yes! let myrtle wreaths be round
Such as then the falchion bound,
When with deeds the feast was crown'd
Done for liberty!
Voiced by Fame eternally,
Noble pair! your names shall be,
For the stroke that made us free,
When the tyrant fell.
Death, Harmodius! came not near thee,
Isles of bliss and brightness cheer thee,
There heroic breasts revere thee,
There the mighty dwell!—D. K. SANDFORD.
_The same._
With myrtle-wreathed I'll wear my sword,
As when ye slew the tyrant lord,
And made Athenian freedom brighten;
Harmodius and Aristogiton!
Thou art not dead—it is confess'd—
But haunt'st the Islands of the Blest,—
Beloved Harmodius!—where Pelides,
The swift-heel'd, dwells, and brave Tydides.
With myrtle-wreathed I'll wear my sword,
As when ye slew the tyrant lord
Hipparchus, Pallas' festal night on;
Harmodius and Aristogiton!
Because ye slew the tyrant, and
Gave Athens freedom, through the land
Your flashing fame shall ever lighten;
Harmodius and Aristogiton!—WALSH.
_The same._
I'll wreathe my sword in myrtle-bough,
The sword that laid the tyrant low,
When patriots, burning to be free,
To Athens gave equality.
Harmodius, hail! though 'reft of breath,
Thou ne'er shalt feel the stroke of death;
The heroes' happy isles shall be
The bright abode allotted thee.
I'll wreathe my sword in myrtle-bough,
The sword that laid Hipparchus low,
When at Athena's adverse fane
He knelt, and never rose again.
While Freedom's name is understood,
You shall delight the wise and good;
You dared to set your country free,
And gave her laws equality.—BLAND.
_The same._
In myrtle my sword will I wreathe,
Like our patriots the noble and brave,
Who devoted the tyrant to death,
And to Athens equality gave.
Loved Harmodius, thou never shalt die!
The poets exultingly tell
That thine is the fulness of joy
Where Achilles and Diomed dwell.
In myrtle my sword will I wreathe,
Like our patriots the noble and brave,
Who devoted Hipparchus to death,
And buried his pride in the grave.
At the altar the tyrant they seized,
While Athena he vainly implored.
And the Goddess of Wisdom was pleased
With the victim of Liberty's sword.
May your bliss be immortal on high.
Among men as your glory shall be!
Ye doom'd the usurper to die,
And bade our dear country be free.—D.
_The same._
In myrtles veil'd will I the falchion wear;
For thus the patriot sword
Harmodius and Aristogeiton bare,
When they the tyrant's bosom gored;
And bade the men of Athens be
Regenerate in equality.
Oh, beloved Harmodius! never
Shall death be thine, who liv'st for ever!
Thy shade, as men have told, inherits
The islands of the blessed spirits;
Where deathless live the glorious dead;
Achilles fleet of foot, and Diomed.
In myrtles veil'd will I the falchion wear;
For thus the patriot sword
Harmodius and Aristogeiton bare,
When they the tyrant's bosom gored
When, in Minerva's festal rite,
They closed Hipparchus' eyes in night.
Harmodius' praise, Aristogeiton's name,
Shall bloom on earth with undecaying fame;
Who, with the myrtle-wreathed sword,
The tyrant's bosom gored;
And bade the men of Athens be
Regenerate in equality.—ELTON.
* * * * *
HYBRIAS. (Book xv. § 50, p. 1112.)
My wealth is here—the sword, the spear, the
breast-defending shield;
With this I plough, with this I sow, with this I reap the field;
With this I tread the luscious grape, and drink the blood-red
wine;
And slaves around in order wait, and all are counted mine!
But he that will not rear the lance upon the battle-field,
Nor sway the sword, nor stand behind the breast-defending shield,
On lowly knee must worship me, with servile kiss adored,
And peal the cry of homage high, and hail me mighty Lord!
—D. K. SANDFORD.
_The same._
My riches are the arms I wield,
The spear, the sword, the shaggy shield,
My bulwark in the battle-field:
With this I plough the furrow'd soil,
With this I share the reaper's toil,
With this I press the generous juice
That rich and sunny vines produce;
With these, of rule and high command
I bear the mandate in my hand;
For while the slave and coward fear
To wield the buckler, sword, and spear,
They bend the supplicating knee,
And own my just supremacy.—MERIVALE.
_The same._
Great riches have I in my spear and sword,
And hairy shield, like a rampart thrown
Before me in war; for by these I am lord
Of the fields where the golden harvests are grown;
And by these I press forth the red red wine,
While the Mnotæ around salute me king;
Approaching, trembling, these knees of mine,
With the dread which the spear and the falchion bring.
—J. A. ST. JOHN.
* * * * *
ARISTOTLE. (Book xv. § 51, p. 1113.)
O sought with toil and mortal strife
By those of human birth,
Virtue, thou noblest end of life,
Thou goodliest gain on earth!
Thee, Maid, to win, our youth would bear,
Unwearied, fiery pains; and dare
Death for thy beauty's worth;
So bright thy proffer'd honours shine,
Like clusters of a fruit divine,
Sweeter than slumber's boasted joys,
And more desired than gold,
Dearer than nature's dearest ties:—
For thee those heroes old,
Herculean son of highest Jove,
And the twin-birth of Leda, strove
By perils manifold:
Pelides' son with like desire,
And Ajax, sought the Stygian fire.
The bard shall crown with lasting bay,
And age immortal make
Atarna's sovereign, 'reft of day
For thy dear beauty's sake:
Him therefore the recording Nine
In songs extol to heights divine,
And every chord awake;
Promoting still, with reverence due,
The meed of friendship, tried and true.—BLAND.
_The same._
Oh! danger-seeking Glory, through the span
Of life the best and highest aim of man:
Say, have not Greeks, to win thy love, in fight
Braved hottest perils, found in death delight?
E'en Leda's twins, when felt thy dart than death
Keener, than gold more potent, than the breath
Of balmy sleep more grateful, with hearts fix'd
By glory's charms, undaunted and untired
To honour march'd? Nor with less eager pace
Alcides battled on in glory's race;
For love of thee Achilles sought his doom;
For love of thee, 'round Ajax came the gloom
Of madness and of death; for thee, of light
Th' Atarnean's eyeballs widow'd sunk in night,
Him, therefore, shall the muse, by poet's power,
Though mortal make immortal. Glory's hour
Flits not from such: who hand and heart have given
To crown, with honours due, the child of heaven.—G. BURGES.
* * * * *
ARIPHRON. (Book xv. § 63, p. 1122.)
Health! supreme of heavenly powers,
Let my verse our fortunes tell—
Mine with thee to spend the hours,
Thine with me in league to dwell.
If bright gold be worth a prayer,
If the pledge of love we prize,
If the regal crown and chair
Match celestial destinies—
If sweet joys and stolen treasures
Venus' furtive nets enclose,
If divinely-granted pleasures
Yield a breathing-space from woes—
Thine the glory, thine the zest!
Thine the Spring's eternal bloom!
Man has all, of thee possest,
Dark, without thee, lowers his doom.—D. K. SANDFORD.
_The same._
Health, brightest visitant from Heaven,
Grant me with thee to rest!
For the short term by nature given,
Be thou my constant guest!
For all the pride that wealth bestows,
The pleasure that from children flows,
Whate'er we court in regal state
That makes men covet to be great;
Whatever sweet we hope to find
In love's delightful snares,
Whatever good by Heaven assign'd,
Whatever pause from cares,—
All flourish at thy smile divine;
The spring of loveliness is thine,
And every joy that warms our hearts
With thee approaches and departs.—BLAND.
_The same._
Oh! holiest Health, all other gods excelling,
May I be ever blest
With thy kind favour, and in life's poor dwelling
Be thou, I pray, my constant guest.
If aught of charm or grace to mortal lingers
Round wealth or kingly sway,
Or children's happy faces in their play,
Or those sweet bands, which Aphrodite's fingers
Weave round the trusting heart,
Or whatsoever joy or breathing-space
Kind Heaven hath given to worn humanity—
Thine is the charm, to thee they owe the grace.
Life's chaplet blossoms only where _thou_ art,
And pleasure's year attains its sunny spring;
And where thy smile is not, our joy is but a sigh.—E. B. C.
* * * * *
ADDENDA.
PHILEMON. (Book vii. § 32, p. 453.)
_Cook._ A longing seizes me to come and tell
To earth and heaven, how I dress'd the dinner.
By Pallas, but 'tis pleasant to succeed
In every point! How tender was my fish!
How nice I served it up, not drugg'd with cheese,
Nor brown'd above! It look'd the same exactly,
When roasted, as it did when still alive.
So delicate and mild a fire I gave it
To cook it, that you'll scarcely credit me.
Just as a hen, when she has seized on something
Too large to swallow at a single mouthful,
Runs round and round, and holds it tight, and longs
To gulp it down, while others follow her;
So the first guest that felt my fish's flavour
Leapt from his couch, and fled around the room,
Holding the dish, while others chased a-stern.
One might have raised the sacred cry, as if
It was a miracle; for some of them
Snatch'd something, others nothing, others all.
Yet they had only given me to dress
Some paltry river-fish that feed on mud.
If I had had a sea-char, or a turbot
From Athens—Zeus the Saver!—or a boar-fish
From Argos, or from darling Sicyon
That fish which Neptune carries up to Heaven
To feast the Immortals with—the conger-eel;
Then all who ate it would have turn'd to gods.
I have discover'd the _elixir vitæ_;
Those who are dead already, when they've smelt
One of my dishes, come to life again.—ANON.
HEGESANDER. (Book vii. § 36, p. 455.)
_Pupil._ Good master, many men have written largely
On cookery; so either prove you're saying
Something original, or else don't tease me.
_Cook._ No, Syrus; think that I'm the only person
Who've found and know the gastronomic object.
I did not learn it in a brace of years,
Wearing the apron just by way of sport;
But have investigated and examined
The art by portions during my whole life—
How many kinds of greens, and sorts of sprats—
The manifold varieties of lentils:—
To sum up all—when I've officiated
During a funeral feast, as soon as ever
The company return'd from the procession,
All in their mourning robes, by merely lifting
My saucepan's lid I've made the weepers laugh,
Such titillations ran throughout their bodies,
As if it was a merry marriage-banquet.
_Pupil._ What? just by serving them with sprats and lentils?
_Cook._ Pshaw! this is play-work merely! If I get
All I require, and once fit up my kitchen,
You'll see the very thing take place again
That happen'd in the times of the old Sirens.
The smell will be so sweet, that not a man
Will have the power to walk right through this alley;
But every passer-by will stand directly
Close to my door, lock-jaw'd, and nail'd to it,
And speechless, till some friend of his run up,
With nose well plugg'd, and drag the wretch away.
_Pupil._ You're a great artist!
_Cook._ Yes, you do not know
To whom you're prating. There are very many
That I can spy amongst the audience there,
Who through my means have eat up their estates.—ANON.
FOOTNOTES.
[146] According to some, Plato.
[147] The lines are versions of parts of the long poem as found
in Athenæus.
INDEX.
ABATES, a Cilician wine, 54.
Abrotonum, a courtesan, mother of Themistocles, 921.
Abydenes, profligacy of the, 841.
Academicians, bad character of some of the, 814.
Acanthias, or thorny shark, 461.
Acanthus, wine of, 50.
Acatia, a kind of drinking cup, 740.
Accipesius, question as to what fish intended, 462.
Acesias cited, 828.
Acestius cited, 828.
Achæinas, a kind of loaf, 181.
Achæus the Eretrian cited, 51, 104, 277, 420, 425, 435, 579, 592,
593, 653, 654, 673, 712, 743, 767, 796, 1025, 1066, 1100, 1102.
Acharnus, a fish, 449.
Achillean fountain, the, 71.
Acorns, sea, 151.
Acorns of Jupiter, 87.
Acratopotes, a hero honoured in Munychia, 64.
Adæus, surnamed the cock, defeated and killed by Chares, 853.
Adæus of Mitylene cited, 751, 967.
Adespoti, freedmen among the Lacedæmonians, 427.
Admete of Argos, story of, 1072.
Adonis, a kind of fish, 525.
Adramyttes, king of Lydia, 826.
Adrian, wine so called, 54.
Æacis, a kind of drinking cup, 739.
Ægimius cited, 1028.
Æginetans, their numerous slaves, 428.
Ælius Asclepiades cited, 1080.
Æmilianus of Mauritania, the grammarian, a Deipnosophist, 2.
Æolian harmony, its character, 996;
called afterwards Sub-Dorian, 997.
Æolus, a kind of fish, 503.
Æschines, his bad character, according to Lysias, 975;
cited, 349, 536, 915.
Æschylides cited, 1040.
Æschylus, invented scenic dresses, and arrayed the choruses of his
plays, 35;
his appeal to posterity, 548;
accused of intemperance, 676;
cited, 18, 28, 62, 84, 111, 112, 120, 143, 145, 165, 265, 282,
475, 497, 547, 571, 588, 592, 620, 634, 664, 669, 706, 739, 748,
759, 764, 783, 784, 789, 797, 805, 916, 957, 958, 961, 1001,
1005, 1009, 1050, 1065, 1076, 1102, 1120.
Æschylus the Alexandrian cited, 956.
Æthlius cited, 1040, 1045.
Ætolians involved in debt by extravagance, 844.
Affection of various animals for man, 967.
Agallis of Corcyra wrote on grammar, 23.
Agatharchides cited, 46, 250, 270, 387, 395, 428, 466, 609, 844, 845,
862, 880, 881, 1041.
Agatho cited, 336, 703, 931.
Agathocles, a favourite of Philip, 407.
Agathocles of Atracia wrote on fishing, 21.
Agathocles of Babylon cited, 49, 592, 825.
Agathocles of Cyzicus cited, 1039.
Agathon cited, 287, 717, 846.
Agelæi, a kind of loaves, 183.
Agelochus cited, 87.
Agen, a satyric drama, question as to its author, 83.
Agias cited, 1000.
Agiastos cited, 144.
Agis cited, 827.
Aglais, the female trumpeter, her voracity, 654.
Aglaosthenes cited, 131.
Agnocles the Rhodian cited, 567.
Agnon the Academic cited, 961.
Agron, king of the Illyrians, kills himself with drinking, 695.
Alban wine, two kinds of, 43, 54.
Alcæus the Mitylenean, fond of drinking, 679;
cited, 37, 63, 123, 178, 182, 497, 584, 628, 630, 644, 669, 670,
678, 679, (poetic version, 1180,) 726, 767, 1000, (1211,) 1076,
1083, 1098, 1104, 1108.
Alcetas the Macedonian, a great drinker, 689.
Alcibiades, character of, 855;
his triumphant return to Athens, 856;
attached to courtesans, 916;
his death, 917.
Alcidamas cited, 945.
Alcides of Alexandria, a Deipnosophist, 3.
Alcimus cited, 506, 696, 830.
Alciphron cited, 52.
Alcisthenes of Sybaris, his rich garment, 865.
Alcman, recorded by himself as a great eater, 656;
cited, 52, 64, 136, 137, 183, 190, 227, 588, 614, 656, 797, 958,
(poetic version, 1206,) 995, 1017, 1036, 1087, 1089.
Aleison, a kind of drinking cup, 740.
Alexamenus cited, 808.
Alexander the Great, death of, 686;
his drunkenness, 687;
his debauchery, 961;
his luxury and extravagance, 860;
gross flattery offered to him, 861;
his letter to Philoxenus cited, 36, 70;
his letter to the satraps of Asia cited, 742;
his Agen cited, 935.
Alexander, king of Egypt, 880.
Alexander, king of Syria, 335.
Alexander the Ætolian cited, 273, 444, 465, 650, 1117.
Alexander the Myndian cited, 94, 107, 351, 610, 611, 613, 615, 616,
617, 618, 619, 620, 622, 623, 628.
Alexandrides cited, 94.
Alexarchus, his strange letter, 164.
Alexinus the logician cited, 1113.
Alexis the comic poet, an epicure in fish, 543;
cited, 30, 34, 42, 47, 51, 56, 60, 64, 66, 75, 77, 81, 90,
(poetic version, 1126,) 95, 99, 105, 110, 111, 125, 126, 128,
157, 158, 159, 167, 173, 177, 178, 180, 183, 189, 193, 194,
(1133,) 198, 202, 203, 204, 206, 207, 209, 218, 219, 220, 222,
259, 263, 264, (1136,) 265, 271, 272, 274, 354, 355, 356, (1139,)
357, 358, (1142,) 359, (1143,) 362, 363, 372, (1146,) 374, (1150,)
378, 379, 380, 381, 384, 389, 390, 399, 400, 405, (1156, 1157,)
406, 452, 460, 472, 475, 482, 494, 510, 514, 532, (1163,) 535,
536, 537, 558, 562, 571, 575, 576, 579, 582, 596, (1174,) 599,
603, 605, 607, 622, 623, 658, 660, 663, 664, 665, 672, 678, 680,
681, 697, 700, 701, 705, 709, (1180,) 731, (1183,) 743, (1185,)
749, 751, 752, 754, 768, 772, 792, 797, 800, 803, 804, 805, 818,
(1186,) 828, 865, 871, 884, 885, 894, (1190,) 899, (1191,) 901,
(1193,) 904, (1194,) 907, 908, (1194,) 915, 918, 935, 936, 942,
950, 966, 974, 978, 991, (1210,) 1020, 1026, 1027, 1029, 1040,
1041, 1043, 1047, 1048, 1057, 1059, 1060, 1072, 1083, 1095, 1098,
1104, 1105, (1217,) 1107, 1118, 1119, 1120.
Alexis cited, 660.
Alexis the Samian cited, 916.
Alexon cited, 283.
Almonds, 85;
various kinds, 85.
Alphesticus, a fish, 442.
Alps, the, or Rhipæan mountains, 468.
Amalthea, horn of, a grove so called, 867;
a drinking cup, 741.
Amaranthus cited, 542, 653.
Amasis, the Egyptian king, how he obtained the throne, 1086;
fond of mirth, 409;
a great drinker, 692.
Ambrosia nine times sweeter than honey, 64;
a flower so called, 1093.
Ameipsias cited, 12, 103, 113, 426, 482, 497, 516, 580, 644, 673,
705, 754, 1066.
Amerias cited, 129, 189, 281, 282, 420, 581, 670, 741, 774, 1089,
1118, 1121.
Amiæ, or tunnies, 436.
Amiton the Eleuthernæan, a harp-player, 1019.
Ammonius cited, 907.
Amœbius the harp-player, 993.
Amphicrates cited, 921.
Amphictyon, king of the Athenians, honours paid to Bacchus by, 63.
Amphilochus, advice to, 823.
Amphion the Thespæan, cited, 1003.
Amphis the comic writer, cited, 12, 50, 57, 71, 78, 83, 93, 110,
114, 167, 279, 356, (poetic version, 1138,) 435, 463, 531, 608,
663, 666, 671, 707, 894, 901, 908, 944, 1026, 1103, (1216.)
Amphis, a wine so called, 52.
Amusements, fondness of the Greeks for, 31.
Amyntas cited, 110, 698, 800, 848.
Anacharsis the Scythian, his satire on drunkenness, 691.
Anacreon, a sober and virtuous man, 677;
cited, 18, 34, 282, 283, 362, 625, 673, 680, 685, 705, 726, 730,
738, 753, 757, 758, 796, 854, 903, 955, (poetic version, 1205,)
957, 1012, 1013, 1014, 1015, 1030, 1072, 1075, 1076, 1083,
1098, 1102, 1108.
Ananius cited, 132, 443, 583, 997.
Anaxagoras cited, 94, 119, 120.
Anaxandrides destroys his unsuccessful plays, 589;
cited, 47, 57, 78, 112, 158, 175, 214, 266, 281, 283, 352,
359, 381, 382, 389, 400, 410, 413, 463, 470, 483, 520, 589,
720, 727, 731, 768, 769, 803, 886, 912, 980, 1013, 1020, 1026,
1046, 1047, 1098, 1102, 1104, 1110, 1119.
Anaxarchus the philosopher, his mode of life, 877.
Anaxilas, or Anaxilaus, cited, 104, 113, 158, 205, 275, 284, 355,
399, 482, 540, 590, 607, 656, 672, 742, 877, 893, (poetic version,
1187,) 914, 994, 1047.
Anaximander cited, 796.
Anaximenes of Lampsacus cited, 365, 851, 944.
Anaxippus cited, 271, (poetic version, 1136,) 656, 776, 974.
Anchiale and Tarsus built in one day by Sardanapalus, 848.
Anchimolus, a water-drinker, 72.
Anchovies, 447;
mode of cooking, 448.
Ancona, wine of, 44.
Ancyla, a kind of drinking cup, 739.
Andreas of Panormus, cited, 1012.
Andreas the physician cited, 191, 490, 491.
Andriscus cited, 131.
Androcottus the Lydian, luxury of, 849.
Androcydes cited, 404.
Andron of Alexandria cited, 285, 1087.
Androsthenes cited, 155.
Androtion cited, 126, 137, 591.
Anicetus cited, 741.
Anicius, Lucius, his burlesque triumph, 981.
Animals, fondness of the Sybarites for, 832.
Annarus the Persian, luxury of, 849.
Antagoras, the poet, repartee of, 538.
Antalcidas the Lacedæmonian, favoured by the king of Persia, 79.
Antelopes, 625.
Antheas the Lindian, 702.
Anthias, the, 442;
why called a sacred fish, 443.
Anthippus cited, 637, (poetic version, 1176.)
Anticlides cited, 254, 605, 735, 754.
Antidotus cited, 181, 378, 1027, 1050.
Antigenides, witticism ascribed to, 1008.
Antigonus the Carystian cited, 73, 137, (poetic version, 1129,) 146,
466, 475, 544, 661, 691, 876, 901, 904, 962, 969.
Antimachus cited, 471, 478, 745, 746, 748, 757, 758, 770, 775.
Antinous, garland of, 1081.
Antiochus of Alexandria cited, 769.
Antiochus the Great, his favour for players and dancers, 31;
his drunkenness, 692, 694.
Antiochus Epiphanes, games celebrated by, 310;
a great drinker, 692.
Antiochus Grypus, his magnificent entertainment, 864.
Antiochus Theos banishes the philosophers, 875.
Antipater, the king, his plain mode of life, 878;
a check on the disorderly conduct of Philip, 687.
Antipater of Tarsus cited, 546, 1028.
Antiphanes, his remark to king Alexander, 888;
cited, 4, 5, 7, 12, 17, 24, 29, 37, 45, 46, 47, 62, 65, 70, 71,
77, 78, 93, 96, 99, 100, 104, 108, 109, 110, 112, 119, 125, 126,
130, 140, (poetic version, 1129,) 157, 160, 165, 167, 172,
(1133,) 179, 186, 195, 198, 202, 203, 206, 207, 209, 214, 231,
252, 255, 258, 259, 260, 271, 272, 273, 276, 279, 353, 354, 355,
(1137,) 357, (1142,) 358, 364, 375, (1151,) 376, 389, 404, (1156,)
405, 411, 452, 462, 463, 469, 471, 474, 476, 482, 486, 491, 492,
507, 508, 520, 535, 536, 537, 541, 542, 565, 577, 579, 583, 599,
618, 624, 625, 626, 633, 634, 635, 645, 666, 667, 697, 701, 703,
704, 708, 710, 711, (1181,) 720, 724, 737, 751, 756, 774, 776,
777, 778, 789, 800, 805, 806, 843, 872, 885, 886, 895, 905, 908,
914, 915, 934, 936, 937, 986, 993, 1026, 1028, 1030, 1033, 1047,
1050, 1057, 1058, 1064, 1065, 1072, 1084, 1088, 1096, 1101, 1102,
1104, 1107.
Antiphanes the orator, cited, 626.
Antiphon cited, 666, 841, 1040.
Antisthenes cited, 343, 344, 350, 822.
Antony, Marc, assumes the style of Bacchus, 239.
Antylla, revenues of, the pin money of Egyptian and Persian queens,
55.
Anytus, a friend of Alcibiades, 856.
Aotus, a kind of drinking cup, 740.
Apanthracis, a kind of loaf, 182.
Apellas cited, 104, 581.
Aphetæ, freedmen among the Lacedæmonians, 427.
Aphritis, a kind of anchovy, 447.
Apicius, an epicure, 10.
Apion cited, 802, 1027, 1086.
Apollo the fish-eater, 545.
Apollocrates, a drunkard, 688.
Apollodorus of Adramyttium cited, 1090.
Apollodorus the arithmetician cited, 660.
Apollodorus of Athens cited, 104, 108, 137, 148, 276, 442, 486,
512, 770, 774, 795, 801, 907, 913, 930, 935, 943, 1017, 1032,
1037, 1059, 1088.
Apollodorus of Carystus cited, 57, 127, 440, 441, 480.
Apollodorus the comic poet cited, 4, (poetic version, 1123.)
Apollodorus the Cyrenean cited, 777.
Apollodorus of Gela cited, 206, 752.
Apollodorus, son of Pasion, cited, 916.
Apollodorus the physician cited, 1078.
Apollonius cited, 162.
Apollonius of Herophila cited, 1099.
Apollonius Rhodius cited, 445, 712.
Apollophanes cited, 190, 745, 775.
Apopyrias, 185.
Apopyris, the, a fish, 529.
Apparatus, the cook's, 271.
Appian the grammarian, 402.
Apples, 135;
various kinds, 136;
battle of apples, 435.
Aracis, a drinking cup, 803.
Arææ, islands, why so called, 412.
Araros cited, 77, 144, 159, 175, 281, 374, 751, 899.
Aratus cited, 781, 782, 786.
Arbaces, the Mede, his interview with Sardanapalus, 847.
Arbutus, the, 82, 83.
Arcadians, cultivation of music by the, 999.
Arcadion, epitaph on, 689.
Arcesilaus, ready wit of, 662.
Archagathus cited, 254.
Archaianassa, the mistress of Plato, his song on her, 940;
(poetical version, 1197.)
Archedicus cited, 459, 460, 745.
Archelaus of the Chersonese cited, 615, 888.
Archemachus cited, 414.
Archestratus the soothsayer, weighed only one obol, 884.
Archestratus the Syracusan cited, 7, (poetic version, 1123,) 48,
92, 105, 154, (1130,) 168, 169, 174, 185, 193, 196, 260, 262,
437, 447, 449, 450, 452, 460, 461, 462, 468, 471, 473, 476, 477,
479, 480, 482, 487, 489, 491, 494, 496, 501, 502, 503, 505, 506,
507, 510, 512, 513, 514, 515, 516, 517, 520, 604, 630, 1013.
Archidamas, king, fined for marrying a rich instead of a beautiful
wife, 905.
Archilochus the Parian poet, cited, 11, (poetic version, 1123,) 51,
86, 128, 143, 184, 201, 296, 468, 612, 654, 685, 706, 771, (1186,)
838, 839, 841, 1000, 1002, 1021, 1045, 1099.
Archimelus cited, 333.
Archippus cited, 144, 151, 159, 359, 436, 482, 489, 495, 506, 517,
519, 524, 541, 668, 671, 798, 1024, 1049, 1083.
Archonides the Argive, never thirsty, 72.
Archytas, his kindness to his slaves, 832;
cited, 137, 286, 828.
Arctinus the Corinthian cited, 36, 436.
Areopagus, persons cited before the, for extravagant living, 268.
Arethusa, fountain of, 69.
Argas, a parodist, 1024.
Argyraspides, or Macedonian body-guard, 863.
Argyris, a drinking cup, 742.
Ariphron cited, 1122, (poetic version, 1222.)
Aristagoras cited, 913.
Aristarchus the grammarian, 65, 86, 295, 297, 301, 797, 801, 1012.
Aristarchus the tragic poet cited, 978.
Aristeas cited, 994.
Aristias cited, 99, 1095.
Aristides cited, 1024.
Aristippus, his retort on Plato, 541;
given to luxury, 870;
bears the practical jokes of Dionysius, 871;
justifies his conduct, 871, 939.
Aristobulus of Cassandra cited, 71, 394, 686, 849.
Aristocles cited, 227, 278, 989.
Aristocrates cited, 138.
Aristodemus cited, 384, 387, 534, 544, 792.
Aristogeiton cited, 944.
Aristomenes cited, 17, 190, 451, 605, 1040, 1052.
Ariston the Chian cited, 63, 660, 902.
Aristonicus cited, 33.
Aristonicus the ball-player, statue to, 31.
Aristonymus the harp-player, 715;
his riddles, 715;
cited, 145, 447, 448, 451.
Aristophanes cited, 35, 50, 68, 79, 81, 83, 86, 92, 93, 94, 103,
107, 109, 111, 126, (poetic version, 1129,) 129, 130, 134, 144,
145, (1130,) 149, 150, 151, 157, 159, 160, 173, 178, 181, 182,
183, 184, 186, 189, 193, 195, 197, 209, 214, 218, 226, 249, 251,
255, 260, 271, 273, 274, 276, 277, 285, 286, 293, 362, 434, 448,
450, 452, 469, 471, 472, 474, 483, 485, 488, 489, 494, 495, 497,
505, 509, 510, 512, 518, 519, 541, 545, 575, 577, 578, 579, 585,
586, 587, 589, 590, 591, 599, 606, 607, 608, 610, 611, 619, 623,
624, 627, 628, 629, 630, 645, 646, 659, 666, 668, 669, 702, 705,
726, 727, 742, 744, 762, 763, 764, 771, 773, 774, 778, 789, 790,
792, 803, 841, 845, 882, 907, 911, 945, 987, 1003, 1004, 1017,
1025, 1031, 1032, 1033, 1040, 1044, 1045, 1066, 1081, 1086, 1102,
1103, 1104, 1108, 1118, 1119, 1121.
Aristophanes the grammarian cited, 138, 143, 361, 451, 591, 604,
644, 797, 930, 987, 1054.
Aristophon cited, 104, 375, 376, (poetic version, 1151,) 475, 752,
884, 895, (1190,) 901, (1193,) 902.
Aristos the Salaminan cited, 689.
Aristotle wrote drinking songs, 5;
criticisms on his Natural History, 555;
cited, 40, 52, 56, 66, 72, 104, 107, 146, 147, 148, 149, 151,
154, 174, 277, 288, 293, 372, 428, 436, 442, 443, 447, 449,
450, 461, 464, 467, 469, 471, 472, 473, 474, 475, 476, 477, 479,
480, 481, 482, 483, 484, 485, 487, 490, 491, 492, 494, 495, 496,
497, 499, 500, 501, 502, 503, 506, 509, 510, 513, 514, 516, 517,
518, 520, 524, 531, 548, 609, 611, 612, 615, 616, 617, 618, 620,
621, 622, 626, 679, 686, 687, 706, 732, 794, 798, 808, 813, 834,
838, 839, 849, 865, 889, 890, 891, 902, 920, 987, 1024, 1025,
1042, 1045, 1046, 1049, 1076, 1077, 1106, 1113, 1114, (poetic
version, 1221.)
Aristoxenus, a luxurious philosopher, 11;
cited, 76, 278, 279, 283, 286, 660, 744, 872, 889, 988, 989, 991,
995, 1005, 1006, 1007, 1008, 1013, 1014, 1015, 1019, 1037.
Armenidas cited, 51.
Arnexias cited, 85.
Aroclum, a kind of drinking cup, 740.
Artaxerxes, his favour for Timagoras, 79.
Artemidorus, (the false Aristophanes,) collected savings on cookery,
7;
cited, 184, 609.
Artemidorus the Aristophanian, 283, 609, 775, 1058, 1059, 1060.
Artemidorus of Ephesus cited, 184, 527.
Artemon becomes suddenly rich, 854;
Anacreonic verses on him, 854.
Artemon cited, 826, 1017, 1018, 1109.
Artichokes, 116.
Artus, king of the Messapians, 180.
Aryasian wine, 54.
Aryballus, a drinking cup, 741,
Arycandians involved in debt through their extravagance, 845.
Arystichus, a drinking cup, 742.
Asclepiades of Myrlea cited, 82, 740, 756, 760, 778, 779, 780,
797, 801, 802, 806, 908, 1084.
Asclepiades and Menedemus, 269.
Asclepiades Tragilenses cited, 720.
Asius of Samos cited, 206, 842.
Asopodorus, his remark on popular applause, 1008;
cited, 1021.
Asparagus, 103.
Aspasia, the mistress of Pericles, 854;
fills Greece with courtesans, 911;
accused of impiety, and defended by Pericles, 940;
cited, 348, 349.
Astaci, 174.
Asteropæus, Laurentius likened to, 4.
Astydamas the athlete, strength and voracity of, 651.
Astydamas, the tragic poet, 56;
cited, 65, 648, 793.
Astypalæa, island of, overrun with hares, 631.
Atergatis, her love of fish, 546.
Athanis cited, 164.
Athenæus, author of the Deipnosophists, 1;
cited, 335.
Athenian flattery, 397;
loaves, 186;
law for the protection of slaves, 419;
banquets, 733;
courtesans, 916, 930.
Athenion cited, 1056, (poetic version, 1212.)
Athenion becomes tyrant of Athens, 336.
Athenocles the artist, 738.
Athenocles the Cyzicene cited, 291.
Athenodorus cited, 832.
Athens, large number of slaves in, 428.
Athletes, censure of, 651.
Attic banquet, description of an, 220;
form of certain words, 627.
Attitudes of guests, 307.
Aurelius, Marcus, the emperor, 3.
Autoclees wastes his fortune, and commits suicide, 859.
Autocrates cited, 622, 726.
Autocratic wines, 54.
Autopyritæ, 183.
Axiochus, a companion of Alcibiades, 856.
Axionicus cited, 158, 266, 280, 377, 384,
539, 698.
Axiopistos cited, 1037.
BABYLON, wine from, called nectar, 53.
Bacchides, inscription on his tomb, 531.
Bacchus, likened to a bull, and to a leopard, 63.
Bacchylides cited, 33, 59, (poetic version, 1125,) 291, 739, 799,
1065.
Bacchylus, 185.
Bachelors, how treated in Sparta, 889.
Bæton cited, 698.
Bagoas the eunuch, 962.
Baiæ, bad water at, 70.
Balani, or sea-acorns, 151.
Ball-play said to be invented by the Lacedæmonians, 23;
various kinds, 24.
Ball-player, statue erected to a, 31.
Bambradon, a fish, 451.
Banishment and death of philosophers, 875, 975.
Banquets, posture at, 29;
dancing at, 219;
an Attic banquet, 220;
Lacedæmonian, 224;
Cretan, 231;
Persian, 233;
Cleopatra's, 239;
Phigalean, 240;
Arcadian, 241;
at Naucratis, 241;
Egyptian, 242;
Thracian, 243;
Celtic, 245;
Parthian, 246;
Roman, 247;
philosophic banquets, 288;
described by Homer, 289, 300;
by Epicurus, 298;
by Xenophon, 299;
dole-basket, 575;
public, on occasion of victory, 853.
Barbine wine, 44.
Bards, the old Grecian, modest and orderly, 22.
Barley-cakes, 189.
Basilus cited, 614.
Bathanati, gold proscribed by the, 369.
Baths, their injurious character, 29;
various kinds, 40;
recommended by Homer, 292.
Bathyllus of Alexandria, the introducer of tragic dancing, 33.
Batiacium, a drinking cup, 742.
Baton cited, 171, (poetic version, 1132,) 262, 395, 689, 1022, 1058,
(1216,) 1084.
Baucalis, a drinking cup, 742.
Beans, the Egyptian, 121.
Bean-soup, 643.
Beauty, prizes for, 905, 972.
Beef, the Greek chiefs fed on, 13.
Beer, an Egyptian drink, 56.
Beet-root, 584.
Belone, the, a fish, 502.
Bembras, a kind of anchovy, 451.
Berosus cited, 1021.
Bessa, a drinking cup, 742.
Bibline wine, 51.
Bicus, a drinking cup, 743.
Bill of fare at entertainments, 81.
Bion cited, 74.
Bion the Borysthenite cited, 261, 664.
Bion of Soli cited, 906.
Birds, traps and nets for catching, 41.
Bisaltæ, their device for conquering the Cardians, 834.
Bithynians enslaved by the Byzantines, 426.
Biton cited, 1012.
Blackbirds eaten, 108.
Blackcap, the, 107.
Blæsus cited, 184, 777.
Blema, a kind of bread, 189.
Blennus, a fish, 452.
Blepsias cited, 188.
Boar, the wild, 632.
Boaxes, or boeces, 450, 491;
origin of the name, 550.
Bœotian, reply of a, 466.
Bœotians, gluttony of the, 657.
Bœotus, a parodist, 1116.
Boiled meats, 41; why preferred to roast, 1049; boiled wines, 52;
boiled water, 201.
Boius cited, 620.
Boletinus, a kind of bread, 189.
Bombylius, a drinking cup, 743.
Book, a great, a great evil, 121.
Bormus, dirge for, 988.
Boscades, a species of duck, 623.
Boys, love of, 902, 959.
Brain of the palm, 118.
Brains, the word thought ill-omened, 108.
Bread, 179; various kinds, 180, 188; modes of making, 186;
wholesomeness or unwholesomeness, 190.
Breakfasts in the Homeric times, 17.
Brizo, a goddess, 529.
Bromias, a drinking cup, 743.
Buffoons and mimics, 32.
Buglossus, a shell-fish, 452.
Bustard, the, 614.
Buxentine wine, 44.
Byzantines addicted to drunkenness, 698; luxury of the, 844.
CABBAGE, a preventive of drunkenness, 56; various kinds, 582; oaths by
the, 583.
Cactus, the, 117.
Cadiscus, a kind of cup, 754.
Cadmus, the grandfather of Bacchus, said to be a cook, 1053.
Cadus, a kind of vessel, 753; doubtful whether a cup, 754.
Cæcuban wine, 44.
Cæcilius the orator, cited, 429, 735.
Cæcilius of Argos, a writer on fishing, 20.
Caius Caligula called young Bacchus, 239.
Cakes, various, 1037.
Calamaules, a musical instrument, 281.
Calanus the Indian philosopher, death of, 690.
Calenian wine, 44.
Calliades cited, 632.
Callias, his extravagance, 859.
Callias, his Grammatical Tragedy, 433; cited, 93, 143, 227, 282,
433, 448, 449, 480, 543, 707, 715, 777, 840, 841, 867, 1066.
Callicrates the artist, 738.
Callicthys, or anthias, 442; perhaps different fish, 444.
Callimachus cited, 3, 92, 114, 121, 159, 383, 396, 446, 500,
513, 518, 519, 611, 612, 621, 624, 699, 760, 793, 913, 933,
1028, 1067, 1068, 1069.
Callimedon, surnamed the Crab, 173; a fish-eater, 536, 537.
Calliphanes, his store of quotations, 6.
Callippus, death of, 814; cited, 1067.
Callipyge, Venus, 887.
Callisthenes the historian, cited, 120, 713, 889.
Callistion, a drunken woman, 775.
Callistium, a courtesan, 933.
Callistratus censures slovenliness of dress, 34;
cited, 206, 413, 791, 944, 1111;
(poetic version, 1217.)
Callixene, a Thessalian courtesan, 687.
Callixenus the Rhodian cited, 313, 324, 333, 334, 609,
756, 772, 1081.
Calpinum, or scaphinum, a kind of drinking cup, 757.
Calyca, song so called, 988.
Calydonian boar, questions regarding the, 632.
Camasenes, a generic name for fish, 528.
Cambles, king of Lydia, a great glutton, 654;
eats his wife, 654.
Cambyses induced to invade Egypt by a woman, 896.
Candaulus, a Lydian dish, 828.
Candles and candlesticks, 1118.
Cantharus cited, 17, 113, 136, 490, 493.
Cantharus, a kind of drinking cup, 754;
also a boat, 755;
other meanings, 755, 756.
Cantibaris the Persian, his voracity, 655.
Capito cited, 552, 670.
Cappadocian loaves, 187.
Capping verses, 723.
Capua, luxury and fate of, 846;
wine of, 44.
Carabi, 174.
Caranus, marriage-feast of, 210.
Carbina overthrown by the Tarentines, 837.
Carcharias, the, 481, 486.
Carchesium, a kind of drinking cup, 756.
Carcinus cited, 302, 895.
Cardians, how conquered by the Bisaltæ, 834.
Carides, 174.
Carrot, the, 584.
Caruca, a kind of sauce, 827.
Carvers of goblets, celebrated, 738.
Carystian wine, 52.
Carystius of Pergamos cited, 372, 687, 811, 814, 868, 878, 922,
923, 962, 974, 989, 990, 1021, 1093.
Castanets, a musical instrument, 1016.
Castorion the Solensian cited, 718.
Castration of women first practised by the Lydians, 826.
Cato censures the luxury of Lucullus and others, 432.
Catonocophori, slaves among the Sicyonians, 427.
Caucalus cited, 649.
Caucine wine, 44.
Caul, the, 176.
Cebes of Cyzicus, feast of, 252.
Celebe, a kind of drinking cup, 757;
a vessel of another kind, 757, 758.
Celts, their banquets, 245;
single combats, 248;
love of boys, 961.
Cephalus cited, 945.
Cephari, a kind of fish, 481.
Cephisodorus cited, 100, 197, 201, 545, 725, 878, 885, 1004,
1065, 1104.
Ceraon, a hero honoured in Sparta, 64.
Cercidas of Megalopolis cited, 547, 880.
Cercops of Miletus cited, 806.
Cernus, an earthenware vessel, 760.
Ceryx, a shell-fish, 144.
Cestreus, the, 481;
why called the Faster, 483.
Chabrias the Athenian, his intemperance, 852.
Chæreas cited, 53.
Chæremon cited, 58, 70, 900, 970, (poetic version, 1207,) 971,
1085.
Chærephon, a dinner hunter, 264.
Chærephon cited, 383, 1080.
Chærippus, a great eater, 654.
Chalcedonians, luxury of the, 844.
Chalcidic goblets, 803.
Chalcis, the, a fish, 517.
Chalydonian wine, 46.
Chamæleon cited, 35, 36, 286, 429, 534, 548, 589, 592, 614, 641,
673, 677, 679, 727, 854, 916, 955, 958, 974, 989, 994, 1003,
1049.
Channa, the, a fish, 516.
Char, the, 503;
said never to sleep, 503;
two kinds, 503.
Chares of Athens, his intemperate life, 852.
Chares of Mitylene cited, 45, 155, 205, 274, 435, 686, 690, 825,
861, 919.
Charicleides cited, 512.
Charicles cited, 551.
Charidemus of Oreum, his intemperance, 689.
Charilas said to be a great eater, 654.
Chariton and Melanippus, 960.
Charmus cited, 972.
Charmus the Syracusan, his dinner wit, 6.
Charon the Chalcidian, 962.
Charon of Lampsacus cited, 622, 757, 834.
Cheese, 1052;
various kinds, 1052.
Cheesecakes, 207;
Apician, 10;
Philoxenian, 8;
treatises on the art of making, 1028;
various kinds of, 1029.
Chelidonium, not the same as the anemone, 1093.
Chelidonizein, institution of the, 567;
(poetical version, 1166.)
Chellones, a kind of fish, 481.
Chemæ, shell-fish, 150.
Chenalopex, a bird, 623.
Cherries, 82;
brought to Italy by Lucullus, 83.
Chestnuts, 89.
Chian wine, 54, 55.
Chians, the first planters of the vine, 43;
their tyrants, 407;
the first slave purchasers, 416.
Chionides cited, 197, 223, 1020.
Chios, tyrants of, 407.
Chœrilus, a great fish-eater, 544;
cited, 732, 848.
Chonni, drinking cups, 803.
Chromis, the, a fish, 517.
Chrysippus, 961.
Chrysippus the Solensian cited, 8, 12, 29, 111, 148, 172, 223, 255,
256, 370, 419, 437, 448, 530, 531, 532, 587, 732, 904, 982, 983,
1054, 1097.
Chrysippus of Tyana cited, 186, 1034.
Chrysocolla, 183.
Chrysogonus cited, 1037.
Chrysophrys, the, a fish, 446, 517.
Chutrides, drinking cups, 804.
Ciboria, or Egyptian beans, 121.
Ciborium, a drinking cup, 761.
Cilician loaves, 183;
wine, 54.
Cimon, his liberality, 853.
Cindon, a fish-eater, 544.
Cinesias, a very tall and thin man, 882;
accused of impiety, 883.
Cissybium, a drinking cup, 760, 768.
Citron, 139;
an antidote, 141.
Clarotæ, the, Cretan slaves, 414.
Cleanthes the Tarentine, spoke in metres, 6.
Clearchus the Peripatetic cited, 47, 71, 81, 95, 253, 401, 433,
448, 494, 498, 499, 525, 526, 532, 543, 545, 548, 551, 613,
619, 625, 629, 655, 707, 714, 715, 718, 719, 722, 723, 745,
750, 775, 824, 826, 830, 837, 839, 840, 848, 849, 854, 862,
865, 866, 869, 877, 878, 886, 889, 902, 916, 940, 942, 952,
966, 967, 975, 987, 939, 1021, 1037, 1088, 1097, 1115, 1121.
Clearchus the comic poet, 6, 7, 9;
cited, 671, 978, 993, 1026.
Clearchus of Solensium cited, 192.
Cleidemus cited, 646, 671, 972, 1055, 1056.
Cleisophus, the parasite, 390.
Cleo, a drunken woman, 696.
Cleobulina of Lindus cited, 707.
Cleobulus the Lindian institutes the chelidonizein, 567.
Cleomenes cited, 619.
Cleomenes of Rhegium cited, 634.
Cleomenes I. of Sparta, goes mad through drunkenness, 673, 689.
Cleomenes III. of Sparta, his entertainments, 230.
Cleon, surnamed Mimaulus, 715.
Cleon the singer, statue and inscription to, 31.
Cleonymus accused of gluttony, 654.
Cleopatra, her sumptuous banquets, 239.
Clepsiambus, a musical instrument, 1016.
Clibanites, 182.
Clidemus cited, 371.
Clisophus the Salymbrian, folly of, 966.
Clisthenes of Sicyon, witty saying of, 1002
Clitarchus cited, 115, 240, 419, 446, 471, 745, 754, 757, 760, 763,
791, 849, 921 935, 1064, 1120.
Clitomachus the Carthaginian cited, 634.
Clytus cited, 864, 1047.
Cnidian wines, 54.
Cnopus, death of, 406.
Coan wine, 54.
Cobites, a kind of anchovy, 447.
Cock, the, 616;
Aristotle's statement, 616.
Cockles, 145.
Cod, differs from the hake, 496.
Cold water, expedient for procuring, 204.
Colophonians, luxury of the, 843.
Collabi, 183.
Collection of money, pretexts for, 566, 568.
Collix, 186.
Collyra, 184.
Comedy, invention of, 65.
Commodus, the emperor, 860.
Concubines tolerated by wives, 890.
Condu, an Asiatic cup, 761.
Congers, 453.
Cononius, a drinking cup, 762.
Cookery, writers on, 827.
Cooks prepare sham anchovies, 11;
praises of their art, 170;
their apparatus, 271;
their conceit and arrogance, 453, 455;
some celebrated ones, 459;
cleverness of, 593, 1058;
learned cooks, 597, 601;
boasts of cooks, 637, 1056;
highly honoured by the Sybarites, 832;
formerly freemen, 1053, 1057;
jesters, 1054;
experienced in sacrifices, 1054;
their profession respectable, 1055;
a tribe entitled to public honours, 1056.
Cook-shops, frequenting, reckoned discreditable, 907.
Coot, the, 623.
Copis, a Lacedæmonian entertainment, 225.
Coptos, wine of, 155.
Coracini, Coracinus, a kind of fish, 484.
Corcyrean wine, 54.
Cordax, a lascivious dance, 635.
Cordistæ, a tribe of Gauls, gold proscribed by the, 369.
Cordylis and cordylus, fish, 480.
Corinth, vast number of slaves in, 428.
Corinthian wine, 51.
Corœbus, the victor at the Olympic games, a cook, 601.
Coronistæ, and coronismata, 567.
Coryphæna, a kind of fish, 477.
Cothon, a kind of fish, 485;
a drinking cup, 770.
Cotta cited, 429.
Cottabus, throwing the, 674, 739, 764, 1063.
Cotyle, a drinking cup, 763.
Cotylisca or cotylus, a drinking cup, 764.
Cotys, king of Thrace, his luxury and madness, 851.
Couches, kinds of, 78;
scented, 79.
Courides. See Carides.
Courtesans, rapacity of, 893;
writers on, 907;
plays named from, 907;
their artifices, 908;
list of, 912;
the Abydene, 915;
the Athenian, 916;
the Corinthian, 916;
courtesans of kings, 921, 924;
witty sayings of, 923;
literature cultivated by, 931.
Coverlets, 79;
mentioned by Homer, 79.
Crabs, 173.
Cranes, fable of their origin, 620.
Craneums, a kind of drinking cup, 765.
Crates, the artist, 738.
Crates cited, 83, 186, 193, 197, 254, 371, 390, 421, 581, 619,
625, 659, 763, 783, 791, 795, 987, 1044, 1103.
Cratanium, a drinking cup, 765.
Cratinus cited, 11, 37, 48, 76, 80, 93, 103, 111, 112, 113, 114,
144, 154, 157, 166, 185, 196, 224, 264, 274, 282, 420, 469,
476, 478, 495, 513, 543, 588, 589, 590, 591, 604, 606, 624, 647,
668, 672, 704, 739, 789, 802, 803, 886, 907, 951, 1004, 1020,
1021, 1023, 1033, 1050, 1059, 1064, 1080, 1082, 1087, 1088, 1089,
1094, 1095, 1116.
Cratinus, epigram on, 64.
Cratinus the younger cited, 379, 727, 748, 1057, 1068.
Cratinus the Athenian, 960.
Crawfish, 537.
Cremys, a kind of fish, 479.
Creophylus cited, 569, (poetic version, 1216.)
Cretan banquets, 231;
dances, 296;
music, 1001.
Cribanites, a kind of loaf, 181.
Crissæan war, caused by women, 896.
Critias cited, 46, 683, 684, 731, 770, 776, 792, 844, 957, 1063.
Criton cited, 277, 828.
Crobylus cited, 89, 178, 181, 390, 405, 575, 604, 701.
Cromylus the comic writer cited, 8.
Crotonians overcome the Sybarites, 834;
dress of their chief magistrate, 836.
Crounea, a drinking cup, 765.
Crowns, 1072.
Crumbs of bread used to wipe the hands, 645.
Ctesias the Cindian cited, 73, 110, 237, 686, 698, 732, 847,
849, 896, 1022.
Ctesibius the Chalcidean cited, 261.
Ctesicles cited, 428, 703.
Cubi, a kind of loaves, 188.
Cuckoo-fish, 486;
how to cook them, 486.
Cucumbers, 113, 123, 586;
various kinds, 124.
Culix, a kind of drinking cup, 766.
Cumæ, luxury of the people of, 846.
Cup-bearers, 669;
female, 941.
Cupellum, a kind of drinking cup, 770.
Cups, drinking, 727;
pledges, 731.
Curetes, derive their name from their luxurious habits, 846.
Cuttlefish, 179, 509.
Cyathis, a kind of drinking cup, 765.
Cybium, a kind of fish, 195.
Cydonian apples, 136.
Cyllastis, a kind of loaf, 189.
Cymbium, a kind of drinking cup, 768;
also a boat, 769.
Cynætha, people of, averse to music, and utterly savage, 999.
Cynic philosophers imitate only the bad qualities of the dog, 975.
Cynulcus the Cynic, a Deipnosophist, 2.
Cyprian figs, 129;
loaves, 186.
Cyprinus, or carp, 485.
Cyrus the Great, his liberality, 49.
Cyrus the younger, his courtesans, 921.
DACTYLEUS, a kind of fish, 481.
Dactylotos, a drinking cup, 746.
Damascus, famed for its plums, 81.
Damophilus the Sicilian, his debauchery and death, 867.
Damoxenus cited, 170, (poetic version, 1130,) 747, (1185.)
Danæ, a courtesan, saves the life of Sophron, 946.
Dancers at banquets, 22.
Dances, 23;
originally arranged for freeborn men, 1003;
various kinds, 1004;
figures, 1005;
satyric, 1005;
Pyrrhic, 1006;
indecorous, 1008;
of the Thracians, 25;
of other barbarous nations, 1008.
Dancing, writers on, 33.
Daphnus the Ephesian, a Deipnosophist, 3.
Daratus, a kind of loaf, 188.
Dardanians, their numerous slaves, 428.
Dates, 1041;
dates without stones, 1042.
Decelean vinegar, 111.
Deinias, a kind of drinking cup, 750.
Deinon cited, 110.
Deinus, a dance, 745.
Deinus, a kind of drinking cup, 744.
Deipnosophists, list of the, 2.
Deipnus, a hero honoured in Achaia, 64.
Delphians, the, 277.
Demades, a debauchee, 73;
cited, 166.
Demaratus, liberality of the Persian king to, 49.
Demarete cited, 1004.
Demetrius cited, 1086.
Demetrius of Athens, 268.
Demetrius of Byzantium cited, 714, 878, 1010.
Demetrius the comic poet cited, 639.
Demetrius Ixion cited, 82, 84, 124, 619.
Demetrius the Magnesian cited, 975.
Demetrius Phalereus, his luxury, 867;
cited, 368, 889.
Demetrius Poliorcetes, 409.
Demetrius the Scepsian cited, 73, 91, 134, 152, 229, 250, 278, 373,
545, 670, 1029, 1052, 1114, 1115.
Demetrius of Trœzene cited, 225.
Democedes the Crotonian, 836.
Demochares cited, 340, 397, 398, 814, 974.
Democlides cited, 279.
Democritus of Abdea, his death, 76;
cited, 120, 269.
Democritus the Ephesian cited, 841.
Democritus of Nicomedia, a Deipnosophist, 2.
Demodemas cited, 1090.
Demonax the Mantinean, invention of gladiatorial combats ascribed
to, 249.
Demonicus cited, 647.
Demophilus cited, 367.
Demosthenes, his debauchery, 946;
for some time a water-drinker, 73;
cited, 73, 266, 288, 381, 419, 542, 768, 778, 794,
803, 916, 934, 945, 948, 1031, 1045.
Demoxenus cited, 24.
Demus and his peacocks, 626.
Demylus, a fish-eater, 544.
Deoxippus cited, 752.
Depas, a kind of drinking cup, 740.
Depastron, a drinking cup, 745.
Dercylus cited, 144.
Desire likened to thirst, 203.
Desposionautæ, freedmen among the Lacedæmonians, 427.
Dessert, dishes for the, 1027.
Dexicrates cited, 204.
Dicæarchus cited, 23, 143, 727, 764, 892, 949, 962, 989, 1016,
1025, 1063, 1065, 1067.
Dicæocles of Cnidus cited, 814.
Dice, game with, 27.
Didymus cited, 50, 92, 111, 116, 225, 579, 585, 619, 746, 761,
768, 773, 777, 778, 779, 802, 1013, 1016, 1100.
Dieuchidas cited, 412.
Dinias, the perfumer, 885.
Dinners, provision for, 635;
different courses at, 1025.
Dinon cited, 237, 806, 971, 1011, 1043.
Dinus, harbour and grove of, 527.
Dinus, a drinking cup, 805.
Diocles, a writer on cookery, 828.
Diocles, the comic poet, cited, 227, 480, 482, 672, 840, 907.
Diocles the epicure, 542.
Diocles of Carystus cited, 53, 75, 87, 90, 94, 97, 100, 113,
124, 144, 174, 182, 193, 198, 478, 497, 504, 511, 520, 585,
1066, 1088.
Diocles of Cynætha, a parodist, 1020.
Diocles of Peparethus, a water-drinker, 73.
Diodorus cited, 1027.
Diodorus the Aristophanian cited, 296, 762, 763, 764, 777.
Diodorus Periegetes cited, 944.
Diodorus Siculus cited, 867.
Diodorus of Sinope cited, 372, 376, (poetic version, 1153,) 681.
Diodotus the Erythræan cited, 686.
Diogenes, the tragic poet, 1015.
Diogenes the Babylonian cited, 270, 843.
Diogenes the Cynic cited, 256, 399.
Diogenes the Epicurean, 335.
Diomnestus becomes master of a great treasure, 859.
Dion the Academic cited, 56.
Dion of Chios, a harp-player, 1019.
Dionysioclides, a Deipnosophist, 160.
Dionysius cited, 513.
Dionysius the Brazen, why so called, 1069;
cited, 700, 960, 1067, 1068, 1122.
Dionysius of Heraclea, the Turncoat, 691;
his gluttony and obesity, 879.
Dionysius the Iambic cited, 446.
Dionysius the Leathern-armed, 826.
Dionysius of Samos cited, 761, 768.
Dionysius of Sinope cited, 600, 638, (poetic version, 1177,)
744, 794, 982, 1061.
Dionysius the Slender cited, 758.
Dionysius the Thracian cited, 785, 801, 802.
Dionysius, the son of Tryphon, cited, 401, 805, 1024.
Dionysius, the tyrant, cited, 633, 874.
Dionysius of Utica cited, 1037.
Dionysius the younger, a drunkard, 688;
his infamous conduct to the Locrians, 866;
his death, 866.
Dioscorides cited, 13, 227, 228.
Diotimus cited, 962.
Diotimus the Funnel, a drunkard, 689.
Dioxippus cited, 168, 752, 794, 804.
Diphilus cited, 58, (poetic version, 1124,) 76, 82, 83, 84,
86, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 94, 96, 97, 101, 103, 105, 111, 114,
115, 116, 118, 122, 125, 134, 135, 138, 149, 150, 152, 176,
190, 199, 200, 205, 217, 219, 251, 253, 265, 269, 302, 353,
356, (1140,) 358, 360, (1144,) 364, 372, (1147,) 376, 388,
389, 400, 406, 411, 458, (1161,) 483, 498, 559, 584, 603, 632,
658, 664, 665, 668, 704, 712, 773, 777, 793, 794, 798, 956,
1023, 1030, 1039, 1051, 1119, 1120.
Diphilus of Laodicæa cited, 494.
Diphilus the Siphnian cited, 581, 582, 583, 584, 585.
Dipyrus, a kind of loaf, 182.
Diyllus the Athenian cited, 249, 947.
Dog-brier, the, 116.
Dog-killing festival at Argos, 166.
Dole-basket banquets, 575.
Dolphins, sacred fish, 444;
affection of, for men, 967.
Dorian harmony, character of the, 996.
Doricha, a courtesan, epigram on, 952.
Dorieus cited, 650.
Dorion, witticisms of, 533;
cited, 131, 195, 443, 444, 447, 451, 461, 466, 471, 477, 478,
479, 481, 485, 486, 490, 491, 492, 495, 496, 502, 504, 505,
507, 508, 516, 517, 518, 520.
Dorotheus of Ascalon cited, 520, 646, 768, 795, 1053, 1059.
Dosiades cited, 231, 414.
Douris cited, 1017.
Doves, 621.
Dracon of Corcyra cited, 1106.
Dramice, a kind of loaf, 188.
Dress, attention to, 34.