For C. Matius the earliest (in the time of Augustus) and for other Latin writers on Cookery, see Columella, XXI. 4 and 44.
[490] See A. Hayward, Art of Dining.
[491] Anaxandrides, Odysseus, frag. 1. ap. Athen., VI. 11. See also Athen., VI. 4-12; VII. 35-41; Livy, XXXIX. 6: “Tum coquus, vilissimum antiquis mancipium et æstimatione et usu, in pretio esse, et quod ministerium fuerat, ars haberi coepta”; and Martial, XIV. 220.
[492] Porphyra, frag. 1. ap. Athen., VI. 6.
[493] βίων πρᾶσις s. 26. The opening (s. 1) of the auction is not unlike a modern one: “For Sale! a varied assortment of Live Creeds, Tenets of every description. Cash on delivery, or credit on suitable security!” While lot (in s. 26)—The Peripatetic—fetches £80 0s. 0d., the great Diogenes (in s. 11) is knocked down for threepence! Fowler’s Trs.
[494] Ausonius, Epist., 5 and 15. But, after all, our own Keats, addressing his favourite Moon, did not hesitate to write:
“thou art a relief To the poor patient oyster!” (Endymion, III. 66 f.)
[495] Pliny, IX. 79: “Is (Sergius Orata) primus ... adiudicavit quando eadem aquatilium genera aliubi atque aliubi meliora, sicut lupi pisces in Tiberi amne inter duos pontes ... et alia genera similiter, ne culinarum censura peragatur.” See Horace, Sat., II. 2, 31 ff. Also Columella, R.R., VIII. 16, 4: “Fastidire docuit fluvialem lupum, nisi quem Tiberis adverso torrente defatigasset”; and also Juvenal IV. 139 ff.:
“Nulli maior fuit usus edendi Tempestate mea: Circeis nata forent an Lucrinum ad saxum Rutupinove edita fundo Ostrea, callebat primo deprendere morsu, Et semel aspecti litus dicebat echini.”
More of the same sort is to be read in Macrob., Sat., III. 16, 16-18.