But Antiphanes calls a dish βατάνιον, in his Euthydicus—

Then came a polypus all cut in pieces,
And boiled ἐν βατανίοισιν.

And Alexis, in his Asclepioclides, says—

But I when sojourning in Sicily,
Learn'd to cook with such dexterity,
That I make all the guests with eagerness
Invade the dishes (βατάνια) with their teeth at times.

But Antiphanes spells the word with a π; writing it πατάνιον, in his Wedding—

Πατάνια, beet, and assafœtida,
Dishes and candles, coriander and onions,
And salt and olives, and round dishes too.

And Philetærus says, in his Œnopion—

Here let the cook of dainty dishes (πατανίων) come.

[[272]] And, in a subsequent passage, he says—

He seems to have more pupils for his dishes
Than even Stratonicus had.