There must be an emerald and a sardonyx.

And the word for emerald is more correctly written μάραγδος, without a σ. For it is derived from the verb μαρμαίρω, to glisten, because it is a transparent stone.

47. After this conversation some dishes were set on the table, full of many kinds of boiled meat: feet, and head, and ears, and loins; and also entrails, and intestines, and tongues; as is the custom at the places which are called boiled meat shops at Alexandria. For, O Ulpian, the word ἑφθοπώλιον, a boiled meat shop, is used by Posidippus, in his Little Boy. And again, while they were inquiring who had ever

[[157]] named any of these dishes, one of the party said, Aristophanes mentions entrails as things which are eatable, in his Knights—

I say that you are selling tripe and paunches
Which to the revenue no tithe have paid.

And presently after he adds—

Why, my friend, hinder me from washing my paunches,
And from selling my sausages? Why do you laugh at me?

And again he says—

But I, as soon as I have swallow'd down
A bullock's paunch, and a dish of pig's tripe,
And drunk some broth, won't stay to wash my hands,
But will cut the throats of the orators, and will confuse Nicias.

And again he says—