[56] Georgics, i. 392. The oil (of lamps is seen) to sparkle and crumbling fungus to form.
[57] Sleep, the rest of things, sleep, most gracious of the gods, peace of the mind, whom anxiety shuns, thou who soothest the weary bodies from their hard duties and restorest them for their labour.
[58] This is a mark of refinement and seemly in one who is cultured—not to be ignorant of the names of the utensils that are in daily use in the house.
[59] Athen. 12. That he was the first to set the Romans the example of luxury in all things.
[60] That Apicius exceeded all men in prodigality.
[61] Cooking vessel with feet for coals.
[62] I am not willing to be Caesar, to march through the Britons and to suffer Scythian frosts.
[63] So says Aelius Spartianus in Life of Hadrian Florus as quoted by Freigius. See Crinitus, book 15, cap. 5.
[64] How often the cook seeks pepper and wine for the breakfasts of the Fabii to smack of the simple beet.
[65] And heavily used to hang on his arm a bowl with a worn-out handle.