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injuriously treated. Accordingly, Plato the comic poet mentions cheesecakes in his play called The Poet, where he says—

Am I alone to sacrifice without Having a taste allow'd me of the entrails, Without a cheesecake, without frankincense?

Nor do I forget that there is a village, which Demetrius the Scepsian, in the twelfth book of his Trojan Array, tells us bears the name of [Greek: Plakous] (cheesecake); and he says that it is six stadia from Hypoplacian Thebes.

Now, the word [Greek: plakous] ought to have a circumflex in the nominative case; for it is contracted from [Greek: plakoeis], as [Greek: tyrous] is from [Greek: tyroeis], and [Greek: sêsamous] from [Greek: sêsamoeis]. And it is used as a substantive, the word [Greek: artos] (bread) being understood.

Those who have lived in the place assure us that there are capital cheesecakes to be got at Parium on the Hellespont; for it is a blunder of Alexis, when he speaks of them as coming from the island of Paros. And this is what he says in his play called Archilochus:—

Happy old man, who in the sea-girt isle Of happy Paros dwell'st—a land which bears Two things in high perfection; marble white, Fit decoration for th' immortal gods, And cheesecakes, dainty food for mortal men.

And Sopater the farce-writer, in his Suitors of Bacchis, testifies that the cheesecakes of Samos are extraordinarily good; saying,—

The cheesecake-making island named Samos.

52. Menander, in his False Hercules, speaks of cheesecakes made in a mould:—

It is not now a question about candyli, Or all the other things which you are used To mix together in one dish—eggs, honey, And similago; for all these things now Are out of place. The cook at present's making Baked cheesecakes in a mould; and boiling groats, To serve up after the salt-fish,—and grapes, And forced-meat wrapp'd in fig-leaves. And the maid, Who makes the sweetmeats and the common cheesecakes, Is roasting joints of meat and plates of thrushes.

And Evangelus, in his Newly-married Woman, says—

A. Four tables did I mention to you of women, And six of men; a supper, too, complete— In no one single thing deficient;