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and a twelve-cubit pot of bulbs
and a hecatomb of octopuses.
This is how they say Cotys did these things
in Thrace, as a marriage-celebration for Iphicrates.
But much more grand than these
and more brilliant will be that in the house
of our masters. For what does
our house lack of such things as are good?
Are there not the scents of Syrian myrrh
and the wafts of frankincense? There are sights
of tender-skinned maza, baked loaves, cakes,
of octopuses, sausages, beef-fat,
of sausages, broth, beets, fig-leaves,
of porridge, garlic, small-fry, mackerel,
of cakes, barley-gruel, wheat-gruel,
of fava beans, vetch, pale vetch, long beans,
of honey, cheese, pudding, wheat,
of nuts, groats,
broiled crawfish, broiled squid,
stewed mullet, stewed cuttle-fish,
stewed moray eel, stewed gobies,
broiled tuna, stewed wrasse,
angler-fish, perch,
dentex, hake, skates, turbots,
thresher shark, gurnard, sprats, electric rays,
monkfish-steaks, honey-combs, grapes,
figs, flat-cakes, apples, cherries,
pomegranates, thyme, poppy seeds, pears,
saffron, olives, olive-cakes, milk-cakes,
leeks, shallots, onions, barley-cake,
bulbs, silphium-stalks, silphium, vinegar,
fennel, eggs, lentil-soup, cicadas, fig-juice,
cress, sesame, whelks, salt,
pinnae, limpets, mussels, oysters,
scallops, tuna. And in addition to these,
an extraordinary crowd of little birds,
of ducks, of pigeons; geese, sparrows,
thrushes, larks, jays, swans,
pelican, wagtails, crane... (B.) May that crane,
stretching through the asshole and ribs