Whom you see seated round, not one of them
But would his fortune risk to make me his."
Philemon, in turn, the witty Athenian bard, represents a cook as pluming himself upon his cunning, and saying:
"Those who are dead already, when they've smelled
One of my dishes, come to life again."
Anthippus, too, presents a graduate of the range who was no less proficient in the resources of his art, and who devised his dishes according to the age of those who were to partake of them,—
"Insensible the palate of old age,
More difficult than the soft lips of youth
To move, I put much mustard in their dish;
With quickening sauces make their stupor keen,