Clean scrape as with a file,
Them swallow, and the remnant give
To us as if to dogs? And then,
As if of one another ’shamed,
With heaps of salted barley hide.”[1229]
And Eubulus, also a comic poet, thus writes respecting sacrifices:
“But to the gods the tail alone
And thigh, as if to pæderasts you sacrifice.”
And introducing Dionysus in Semele, he represents him disputing:
“First if they offer aught to me, there are