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38 A TOUR THROUGH
sibly understand the true luxury of eating
better than their descendants, to whom
they have transmitted a very competent
portion both of their social virtues and vices.
I beg their pardon for calling them vices, I
whh I had a softer name for it; it looks
like ingratitude for their hospitality, for
which we owe them so much.
We were just thirty at table, but, upon
my word, I do not think we had less
than an hundred dimes of meat. These
were dressed with the richest and most deli-
cate sauces ; and convinced us that the old
Roman proverb of " Siculus coquus et Si-
cula mensa," was not more applicable in
their time, than it is at present. Nothing
was wanting that could be invented to sti-
mulate and to flatter the palate ; and to
create a false appetite as well as to satissy
it. Some of the very dishes so much re-
lished by the Roman epicures made a part
of the feastj particularly the morene, which
is
sibly understand the true luxury of eating
better than their descendants, to whom
they have transmitted a very competent
portion both of their social virtues and vices.
I beg their pardon for calling them vices, I
whh I had a softer name for it; it looks
like ingratitude for their hospitality, for
which we owe them so much.
We were just thirty at table, but, upon
my word, I do not think we had less
than an hundred dimes of meat. These
were dressed with the richest and most deli-
cate sauces ; and convinced us that the old
Roman proverb of " Siculus coquus et Si-
cula mensa," was not more applicable in
their time, than it is at present. Nothing
was wanting that could be invented to sti-
mulate and to flatter the palate ; and to
create a false appetite as well as to satissy
it. Some of the very dishes so much re-
lished by the Roman epicures made a part
of the feastj particularly the morene, which
is