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APPENDIX. 499
reason, that its use makes the breath sweet, and keeps the teeth clean; but they generally
masticate it more as an idle pastime, like the turning of their beads, than from any great
attention to its utility. It was known to the ancients; and those who used it were termed
"Zxwolpujyis, " mastic eaters," and looked upon as effeminate.1
Tooth-picks made from its wood were esteemed."
The lentiscus was used in the ceremonies of the Dictynnian Diana in Crete.3
Paras.
Cretan chestnuts........................... 12
Morea ditto................................. 8
A fine turkey.............................. 100 The turkeys are remarkably fine in Greece,
and are called Frankopoula, the Frank's
bird. They are not common.
A fine fowl ................................. 20
A hare....................................... 40
Cows' milk is not used in Greece, but only that of sheep and goats.
The cheese is of a bad and pungent quality, and the butter only eatable to Turks and
Greeks.
Geese and ducks are very scarce in Greece. The pigeons are remarkably fine and
plentiful.
The Athenian pigeons are much esteemed; they still retain the name of the nymph
Utpuripx, who was metamorphosed by Cupid into that bird.
The Tpiyovyr, or turtle dove, is reckoned a great delicacy at Athens; it lives in the olive
groves, and eats the ripe olive.
The bcccafco is plentiful at some seasons of the year, and is a favourite dish. It is the
Motacilla Ficcdula, and is called by the modern Greeks Ivxoipayij, which answers to its
Italian appellation.
The Turks are not fond of game, and never eat hares. Game is plentiful in Attica, but
there are few sportsmen. They also have a prejudice against eating oysters and other
shell-fish.
" Clemens Alex. Pffid. b. 3. c. 3.
> Martial, b. 3. Epig. 82. v. 9. See also Columella, 5. 10.; and Dioscorid. b. I.e. 90. ; and Sonnini, Voyage en Greece.
3 Calliniacli. Hymn, in Dianam.
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reason, that its use makes the breath sweet, and keeps the teeth clean; but they generally
masticate it more as an idle pastime, like the turning of their beads, than from any great
attention to its utility. It was known to the ancients; and those who used it were termed
"Zxwolpujyis, " mastic eaters," and looked upon as effeminate.1
Tooth-picks made from its wood were esteemed."
The lentiscus was used in the ceremonies of the Dictynnian Diana in Crete.3
Paras.
Cretan chestnuts........................... 12
Morea ditto................................. 8
A fine turkey.............................. 100 The turkeys are remarkably fine in Greece,
and are called Frankopoula, the Frank's
bird. They are not common.
A fine fowl ................................. 20
A hare....................................... 40
Cows' milk is not used in Greece, but only that of sheep and goats.
The cheese is of a bad and pungent quality, and the butter only eatable to Turks and
Greeks.
Geese and ducks are very scarce in Greece. The pigeons are remarkably fine and
plentiful.
The Athenian pigeons are much esteemed; they still retain the name of the nymph
Utpuripx, who was metamorphosed by Cupid into that bird.
The Tpiyovyr, or turtle dove, is reckoned a great delicacy at Athens; it lives in the olive
groves, and eats the ripe olive.
The bcccafco is plentiful at some seasons of the year, and is a favourite dish. It is the
Motacilla Ficcdula, and is called by the modern Greeks Ivxoipayij, which answers to its
Italian appellation.
The Turks are not fond of game, and never eat hares. Game is plentiful in Attica, but
there are few sportsmen. They also have a prejudice against eating oysters and other
shell-fish.
" Clemens Alex. Pffid. b. 3. c. 3.
> Martial, b. 3. Epig. 82. v. 9. See also Columella, 5. 10.; and Dioscorid. b. I.e. 90. ; and Sonnini, Voyage en Greece.
3 Calliniacli. Hymn, in Dianam.
3s2