Happy old man, who in the sea-girt isle
Of happy Paros dwell'st—a land which bears
Two things in high perfection; marble white,
Fit decoration for th' immortal gods,
And cheesecakes, dainty food for mortal men.
And Sopater the farce-writer, in his Suitors of Bacchis, testifies that the cheesecakes of Samos are extraordinarily good; saying,—
The cheesecake-making island named Samos.
52. Menander, in his False Hercules, speaks of cheesecakes made in a mould:—
It is not now a question about candyli,
Or all the other things which you are used