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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 [Greek: paropsis] for a vessel, where he says—

After she has invited you to supper, She sets before you a [Greek: paropsis] full of

And Alexis, in his Hesione, says—

But when he saw two men well loaded with The table and conveying it in-doors, Groaning beneath a number of [Greek: paropsides], 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 [Greek: paropsides] of ill to me.

And Achæus, in his Æthnon, a satyric drama, says—

And let these savoury boil'd and roasted meats On the [Greek: paropsides] be carved in pieces.

And Sotades the comic writer says, in his Man wrongly Ransomed—

I a [Greek: paropsis] 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 [Greek: paropsidas], 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 [Greek: paropsis] 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 [Greek: paropsides] 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 [Greek: paropsis] for their seat.

And Aristophanes says, in his Dædalus,—

All women have one set of principles, And have a lover, like a [Greek: paropsis], ready.