There were some hepseti besides served up
In a dædalean manner. For they call
All clever works by the name of Dædalus;
and presently afterwards he continues—
Will you not now then try the coracini?
Nor trichides, nor any hepseti?
But this word is always used in the plural, ἑψητοὶ, because they are only served up in numbers. Aristophanes, in his Dramata or Niobus, says—
I will say nothing of a dish of hepseti.
And Menander, in his Perinthian Woman, says—
The boy came in bringing some hepseti.
But Nicostratus uses the word in the singular number, in his Hesiod—
A bembras, an anchovy, and a hepsetus.
And Posidippus, in his Woman shut up, says—