[66] Tell me why does the lettuce, which used to finish off the meals of our ancestors, now begin our meals?
[67] When I, the Lucanian sausage, come, daughter of the swine of Picenum, then will the crown be given gladly to the snowy pottage.
[68] As he passed by one day, Diogenes, who was washing vegetables, scoffed at him and said: “If you had learnt to live on these, you would not frequent the courts of kings;” and he said: “If you knew how to associate with your fellow men, you would not be washing vegetables.”
[69] See Cicero, De Oratore, iii. (near the end); Quintilian, i. 10; Gellius, Noctes Atticae, i. 11.
[70] Graculus is a jackdaw. Aesop has a story of the jackdaw with borrowed plumes. Juvenal iii. 78 refers to the Graeculus, the Roman attempting to play the Greek.
[71] A red colouring matter.
[72] On what has been set and is set before us, may Christ deign to give his blessing.
[73] Even with three guests, each seems to me to have a different taste, each requiring quite different foods with his quite different palate. Horace, Epistles, ii. 2, 61, 62.
[74] Georgics, i. 57.
[75] We should give little to pleasure, as its due; but all the more to health. Cato, Disticha de Moribus, ii. 28.