And Crates the Theban said—

Do not prefer a dainty dish to lentils,
And so cause factious quarrels in our party.

[[255]] And Chrysippus, in his treatise on the Beautiful, quoting some apophthegms to us, says—

Eat not an olive when you have a nettle;
But take in winter lentil-macaroni—
Bah! bah!
Lentil-macaroni's like ambrosia in cold weather.

And the witty Aristophanes said, in his Gerytades—

You're teaching him to boil porridge or lentils.

And, in his Amphiaraus—

You who revile the lentil, best of food.

And Epicharmus says, in his Dionysi—

And then a dish of lentils was boil'd up.