Book 2
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We know that men used to call sweetmeats νωγαλεύματα. Araros says in the Campylion— These νωγαλεύματα are very nice. And Alexis says— In Thasian feasts his friends he meets, And νωγαλίζει, sweetmeats eats. And Antiphanes, in the Busiris, says— Grapes, and pomegranates, and palms, And other νώγαλα.
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Philonides used the word ἀπόσιτος for fasting; and Crobylus has the word αὐτόσιτος, writing παράσιτον, αὐτόσιτον.
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Eupolis, too, used ἀναρίστητος for without breakfast Crates has the word ἀναγκόσιτος, eating by force, and Nicostratus uses ἀναγκοσιτέω. There is a youth most delicately curl'd, Whom I do feed by force beneath the earth. And Alexis has the word ἀριστόδειπνον, breakfast-dinner— By whom the breakfast-dinner is prepared.
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After this we rose up and sat down again as each of us pleased, not waiting for a nomenclator to arrange us in order.
