Three pitchers, at ten obols to the pitcher.—Mitchell.


Matron.[147] (Book iv. § 13, p. 220.)

The feast, for cookery's various cates renown'd,

By Attic host bestow'd, O Muse! resound.

There too I went, with hunger in my train,

And saw the loaves by hundreds pour'd amain,

Beauteous to view, and vast beyond compare,

Whiter than snow, and sweet as wheaten fare.

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