Crit. This bread is not sufficiently fermented.
Dem. For to-day think thyself a Jew, one of those who, by the ordinance of God, only feed on bread which is unleavened.
Crit. And this, indeed, was because they were such very bad men that the eating of swine was forbidden them, than which nothing is more pleasing to the palate; nor if taken moderately is anything more healthful. With unleavened bread sauces must be eaten together with field lettuce, which is extremely bitter.
Pol. All this has too much depth of meaning. Let us leave the subject.
Scop. Yes, indeed, and the whole discussion about bread! If there is so much difference of opinion about what is eaten with bread, how much discord there will be over every part of the menu of the whole meal!
Crit. It happens, forsooth, as Horace says:—
Tres mihi convivae prope dissentire videntur,
Poscentes vario multum diversa palato.[73]
Fruits
Scop. Bring those dishes and plates with the cherries, plums, pomegranates, ripe fruit, and early ripe fruit.