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 There is also the [Greek: gouros]; and that this, too, is a kind of cheesecake we learn from what Solon says in his Iambics:—

Some spend their time in drinking, and eating cakes, And some eat bread, and others feast on [Greek: gouroi] Mingled with lentils; and there is no kind Of dainty wanting there, but all the fruits Which the rich earth brings forth as food for men Are present in abundance.

There are also cribanæ; and [Greek: kribanês] is a name given by Alcman to some cheesecakes, as Apollodorus tells us. And Sosibius asserts the same thing, in the third book of his Essay on Alcman; and he says they are in shape like a breast, and that the Lacedæmonians use them at the banquets of women, and that the female friends of the bride, who follow her in a chorus, carry them about when they are going to sing an encomium which has been prepared in her honour.

There is also the crimnites, which is a kind of cheesecake made of a coarser sort of barley-meal ([Greek: krimnon]), as Iatrocles tells us in his treatise on Cheesecakes.

55. Then there is the staitites; and this, too, is a species of cheesecake made of wheaten-flour and honey. Epicharmus mentions it in his Hebe's Wedding; but the wheaten-flour is wetted, and then put into a frying-pan; and after that honey is sprinkled over it, and sesame, and cheese; as Iatrocles tells us.

There is also the charisius. This is mentioned by Aristophanes in his Daitaleis, where he says—

But I will send them in the evening A charisian cheesecake.

And Eubulus, in his Ancylion, speaks of it as if it were plain bread:—

I only just leapt out, While baking the charisius.

Then there is the [Greek: epidaitron], which is a barley-cake, made like a cheesecake, to be eaten after supper; as Philemon tells us in his treatise on Attic Names.

There is also the nanus, which is a loaf made like a cheesecake, prepared with cheese and oil.

There are also [Greek: psôthia], which are likewise called [Greek: psathyria]. Pherecrates, in the Crapatalli, says—

And in the shades below you'll get for threepence A crapatallus, and some [Greek: psôthia].

But Apollodorus the Athenian, and Theodorus, in his treatise