Book 3
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There is a loaf also called the obelias, or the penny loaf, so called because it is sold for a penny, as in Alexandria; or else because it is baked on small spits. Aristophanes, in his Farmers, says— Then perhaps some one bakes a penny loaf. And Pherecrates, in his Forgetful Man, says— Olen, now roast a penny roll with ashes, But take care, don't prefer it to a loaf. And the men who in the festivals carried these penny rolls on their shoulders were called ὀβελιαφόροι. And Socrates, in his sixth book of his Surnames, says that it was Bacchus who invented the penny roll on his expeditions. There is a roll called etnites, the same which is also named lecithites, according to the statement of Eucrates.
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The Messapians call bread πανὸς, and they call satiety πανία, and those things which give a surfeit they call πάνια; at least, those terms are used by Blæsus, in his Mesotriba, and by Archilochus, in his Telephus, and by Rhinthon, in his Amphitryon. And the Romans call bread panis.
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Nastus is a name given to a large loaf of leavened bread, according to the statement of Polemarchus and Artemidorus. But the Heracleon is a kind of cheesecake. And Nicostratus says, in his Sofa— Such was the size, O master, of the nastus, A large white loaf. It was so deep, its top Rose like a tower quite above its basket. Its smell, when that the top was lifted up, Rose up, a fragrance not unmix'd with honey Most grateful to our nostrils, still being hot.
