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 And Plato says, in his Festivals,—

Whence barley-cakes may be got, and [Greek: paropsides].

But he is speaking here of cooking and seasoning onions. But the Attic writers, O my Syri-Attic friend Ulpian, use [Greek: embamma] also in this sense; as Theopompus says, in his Peace:—

Bread's a good thing; but flattery and tricks, When added as a seasoning ([Greek: embamma]) to bread, Are odious as can be.

6. When speaking of hams, they use the two forms [Greek: kôlê] and [Greek: kôlên]. Eupolis, in his Autolycus, says—

The legs and hams ([Greek: kôlênes]) out of the soup.

And Euripides, in his Sciron, says—

Nor hams ([Greek: kôlênes]) of kids.

But the word [Greek: kôlê] is contracted from [Greek: kôlea], as [Greek: sykê] from [Greek: sykea], [Greek: leontê] from [Greek: leontea]; so [Greek: kôlê] from [Greek: kôlea]. Aristophanes, in his second Plutus, says—

Alas the ham ([Greek: kôlês]) which I have just devour'd!

And in his Daitaleis he says—

And the fat hams ([Greek: kôlai]) of tender little pigs And dainty tit-bits swift to fly.

And in his Storks he says—

The heads of lambs, the hams ([Greek: kôlas]) of kids.

And Plato, in his Griffins, says—

Fish, and hams ([Greek: kôlas]), and sausages.

And Ameipsias, in his Connus, says—

The ham ([Greek: kôlê]) from off the victim, and the ribs, And the left side o' th' head are usually given.

And Xenophon, in his book on Hunting, says—"The ham ([Greek: kôlê]) is fleshy, and the loins moist." And Xenophanes the Colophonian, in his Elegies, says—

For having sent a ham ([Greek: kôlê]) of kid, you won A mighty leg of carefully fatted bull, An honourable present for a man, Whose glory shall pervade all Greece, and never Cease while the poets and the songs of Greece Survive in memory and the mouths of men.

7. And as immediately after this a great quantity of food of all sorts was brought in, we will just mention those dishes which seem most worthy of being remembered; for there