[1183]. The cheese made in this manner was called ὀπίας. Eurip. Cyclop. 136. Athen. xiv. 76. Schol. Aristoph. Vesp. 353. Dioscor. i. 183. Plin. xxiii. 63. Plut. Sympos. vi. 10.
[1184]. Geop. xviii. 12. These cheeses were sometimes made in box-wood moulds. Colum. vii. 8.
[1185]. Philostratus describes one of these delicate little cheeses freshly made and quivering like a slice of blanc-manger:—καὶ τρυφαλὶς ἐφ᾽ ἑτέρου φύλλου νεοπαγὴς, καὶ σαλέυουσα. Icon. i. 31. p. 809.
[1186]. Geop. xviii. 19.
[1187]. Geop. xviii. 20.
[1188]. Geop. xvii. 12. Heresbach. p. 233. a.
[1189]. Herod. v. 16. Athen. vii. 72. Ælian. de Nat. Anim. v. 25. Cf. Sch. Aristoph. Pac. 891.
[1190]. Theoph. Hist. Plant. iv. 14. 3.
[1191]. Athen. iii. 59. Sch. Aristoph. Vesp. 107.
[1192]. Il. β. 87. μ. 67. Odyss. ν. 106.