And this, too, though you have so long a nose (ῥύγχος).
And Araros says, in his Adonis—
For the god turns his nose towards us.
49. And Aristophanes makes mention of the extremities of animals as forming a common dish, in his Æolosicon—
And of a truth, plague take it, I have boil'd
Four tender pettitoes for you for dinner.
And in his Gerytades he says—
Pig's pettitoes, and bread, and crabs.
And Antiphanes says, in his Corinthia—
| A. | And then you sacrifice a pig's extremities To Venus,—what a joke! |
| B. | That is your ignorance; For she in Cyprus is so fond of pigs, O master, that she drove away the herd Of swine from off the dunghill where they fed, And made the cows eat dirt instead of them. |
But Callimachus testifies that, in reality, a pig is sacrificed to Venus; or perhaps it is Zenodotus who says so in his Historic Records, writing thus, "The Argives sacrifice a pig to Venus, and the festival at which this takes place is called Hysteria." And Pherecrates says, in his Miners—