[1007] Athen. lib. iv. p. 169.
[1008] Hieron. Baruffaldi Sched. de armis convivalibus. In Salengri Nov. Thes. Antiq. Rom. iii. p. 742.
[1009] Mart. Epigr. xiv.
120. Ligula Argentea.
Quamvis me ligulam dicant equitesque patresque,
Dicor ab indoctis lingula grammaticis.
121. Cochlearia.
Sum cochleis habilis, sed nec minus utilis ovis;
Num quid scis potius cur cochleare vocer?
[1010] Plin. Hist. Natur. xxi. 14. Columella, ix. 15, 13. That the ligula was smaller than the cochlear is proved by Martial, viii. 23.
[1011] See this word in Pitisci, Lexicon Antiq. Rom.
[1012] Clemens Alexandr. Pædagog. lib. ii. p. 161. Posidonius relates, in Athenæus, iv. 13, p. 151, that the Gauls used to take roast meat in their hand and tear it to pieces with their teeth, or to cut it with a small knife which each carried in his girdle. This was told as a thing uncommon to the Greeks. Baumgarten, who quotes this passage in Algem. Welgeschichte, xvi. p. 657, adds, that Posidonius said also that the Gauls had bread so flat and hard that it could be easily broken. But this circumstance I cannot find in Athenæus.