: The Deipnosophists; or Banquet of the Learned of Athenæus Vol. 2 (of 3) by Athenaeus Of Naucratis Yonge Charles Duke Translator - Greece Social life and customs; Civilization Greco-Roman; Dinners and dining Greece; Homosexuality Greece

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The Phagesia--Fish--Epicures--Cooks--Sharks--Fish--Glaucus --Eels--The Tunny-fish--Fish--Pike--Fish--The Polypus 433-521

Aquatic Animals--Fish--Recommendations to present Enjoyment-- Fish--Hyperides--Epicures--Stratonicus--Aristotle--Aristotle's Natural History--Fish--The Swallow--Ephesus--Names of Feasts --Feasts--The Dole-basket 523-576

The words ??????? and ??????--The word ??????--Turnips-- Cabbage--Leeks--Poultry--Anaxandrides--Pigs--Cooks--Use of particular Words--Learned Cooks--Cooks--Use of particular Words--Made Dishes--Pheasants--The Porphyrion--Partridges--The Bustard--Sparrows--Quails --Pigeons--Ducks--Sucklings--Attic form of Nouns in ??-- Loins--Hares--The word ???????--Dinners--Cookery--Chamaeleon-- Bean Soup--Soap--Towels 576-648

Ulysses--Voracity of certain Persons--Of Mithridates--Of the Boeotians--Of the Thessalians--Menedemus--Praise of Temperance--Stilpo--Mixing Wine--Cupbearers--Drinking--The Proportions of Mixed Wine--Drinking--Wine--Lacedaemonian Fashions--Thirst--Philip of Macedon--Arcadion--Dionysius --Antiochus Epiphanes--Demetrius--Female Drinkers--The Illyrians--Evils of Drunkenness Forms of ????-- ??????--Riddles--??????--Euripides--??????--Enigmatical Sayings--Capping Verses--?????? 648-725

Cups--Drinking Pledges--Athenian Banquets--Drinking-cups --The Pleiades--Meaning of particular Words--Drinking--cups --Plato. 725-815

He lay within the cave stretch'd o'er the sheep ;

I will now recapitulate to you what the Deipnosophists said about each: for each of them brought to the discussion of the subject some contribution of quotation from books; though I will not mention the names of all who took part in the conversation, they were so numerous.

Amphis says in his Leucas--

Whoever buys some ???? for his supper, And, when he might get real genuine fish, Contents himself with radishes, is mad.

And that you may find it easy to remember what was said, I will arrange the names in alphabetical order. For as Sophocles, in his Ajax Mastigophorus, called fish ?????, saying--

He gave him to the ????? ????? to eat;

one of the company asked whether any one before Sophocles ever used this word; to whom Zoilus replied,--But I, who am not a person ????????????? , am well aware that the man who wrote the poem Titanomachia , whether he be Eumelus the Corinthian, or Arctinus, or whatever else his name may chance to have been, in the second book of his poem speaks thus--

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