Book 3
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The name of bread among the Ionians was cnestus, as Artemidorus the Ephesian states in his Memorials of Ionia. Thronus was the name of a particular kind of loaf, as it is stated by Neanthes of Cyzicus, in the second book of his Grecian History, where he writes as follows—But Codrus takes a slice of a loaf of the kind called thronus, and a piece of meat, such as they give to the old men.'
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There is, among the Elians, a kind of loaf baked on the ashes which they call bacchylus, as Nicander states in the second book of his treatise on Dialects. And Dihilus mentions it in his Woman who went Astray, in these words— To bring loaves baked on ashes, strain'd through sieves.
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The thing called ἀποπυρίας is also a kind of roll; and that also is baked on the ashes; and by some it is called ζυμίτης, or leavened. Cratinus, in his Effeminate People— First of all I an apopyrias have—
