Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome

dormouse of the South of Europe is the size of a rat, arboreal rodent, living in trees. Galen, III, de Alim.; Plinius, VIII, 57/82; Varro, III, describing the _glirarium_, place where the dormouse was raised for the table. Petronius, Cap. 31, describes another way of preparing dormouse. Nonnus, Diæteticon, p. 194/5, says that Fluvius Hirpinus was the first man to raise dormouse in the _glirarium_. Dormouse, as an article of diet, should not astonish Americans who relish squirrel, opossum, muskrat, "coon," etc. END OF BOOK VIII _EXPLICIT APICII TETRAPUS LIBER OCTAUUS_ [Tac.] {Illustration: TITLE PAGE Schola Apitiana, Antwerp, 1535} {Transcription: SCHOLA APITIANA, EX OPTIMIS QVIBVSDAM authoribus diligenter ac nouiter constructa, authore Polyonimo Syngrapheo. ACGESSERE DIALOGI aliquot D. Erasmi Roterodami, & alia quædam lectu iucundissima. Væneunt Antuerpiæ in ædibus Ioannis Steelsij. I. G. 1535.} APICIUS Book IX {Illustration: WINE PITCHER, ELABORATELY DECORATED "Egg and bead" pattern on the rim. The upper end of handle takes the form of a goddess--Scylla, or Diana with two hounds--ending in acanthus leaves below the waist. On the curved back of handle is a long leaf; the lower attachment is in the form of a mask, ivy-crowned maenad (?). Ntl. Mus., Naples, 69171; Field M., 24048.} {Illustration: CACCABUS Stewpot, marmite, without a base, to fit into a hole of stove. The flat lid fits into the mouth of the pot. Found in Pompeii. Ntl. Mus., Naples, 74806; Field M., 24171.} BOOK IX. SEAFOOD _Lib. IX. Thalassa_ CHAP. I. SHELLFISH. CHAP. II. RAY. CHAP. III. CALAMARY. CHAP. IV. CUTTLEFISH. CHAP. V. POLYPUS. CHAP. VI. OYSTERS. CHAP. VII. ALL KINDS OF BIVALVES. CHAP. VIII. SEA URCHIN. CHAP. IX. MUSSELS. CHAP. X. SARDINES. CHAP. XI. FISH SAUCES. CHAP. XII. BAIAN SEAFOOD STEW. I SHELLFISH _IN LOCUSTA_ [397] SAUCE FOR SHELLFISH _IUS IN LOCUSTA ET CAPPARI_ [1] CHOPPED SCALLIONS FRIED LIGHTLY, CRUSH PEPPER, LOVAGE, CARRAWAY, CUMIN, FIGDATES, HONEY, VINEGAR, WINE, BROTH, OIL, REDUCED MUST; WHILE BOILING ADD MUSTARD. [1] _locusta_, spiny lobster; Fr. _langouste_; G.-V. _capparus_; not clear, (_cammarus_, a crab); List. _carabus_--long-tailed lobster or crab, the _cancer cursor_ of Linnæus, according to Beckmann; mentioned by Plinius. [398] BROILED LOBSTER