Pashley, Robert: Travels in Crete (Band 2) (Cambridge und London, 1837)

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LENTEN FARE.

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himself, Manias, and my companion : for my own part
I lay down supperless57.

5' Matron, in Athenaeus, iv. p. 134. f.

"Ev8' aWoi ira'i/xes \axdvoit eiri xf'Pas iaWov,
eyto uv Tri66/JLi]V !

Would that I had refrained in order to enjoy such a feast as followed the
herbs in the house of Xenocles ! We should have been glad indeed to have
had, now, even that lenten fare of salt fish and sea-urchins, which Matron
there disdained to touch :

'QflOTaptxuv ewf \aipeiv Qoivlkcov 6\I/0v
uvTap k^lvoW piiptt KUpi]Kop6wVTas duavQais.