Talthybius hastens to the fleet, to bring
The lamb for Jove, th' inviolable king.[105]
And, in another passage, he says—
A splendid scene! Then Agamemnon rose;
The boar Talthybius held; the Grecian lord
Drew the broad cutlass, sheath'd beside his sword.[106]
80. And in the first book of the History of Attica, Clidemus says, that there was a tribe of cooks, who were entitled to public honours; and that it was their business to see that the sacrifices were performed with due regularity. And it is no violation of probability in Athenion, in his Samothracians, as Juba says, when he introduces a cook arguing philosophically about the nature of things and men, and saying—
A. Dost thou not know that the cook's art contributes
More than all others to true piety?
B. Is it indeed so useful?