Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome

BAIAN SEAFOOD STEW _EMBRACTUM _[1]_ BAIANUM_ [2] MINCED [poached] OYSTERS, MUSSELS [3] [or scallops] AND SEA NETTLES PUT IN A SAUCE PAN WITH TOASTED NUTS, RUE, CELERY, PEPPER, CORIANDER, CUMIN, RAISIN WINE, BROTH, REDUCED WINE AND OIL. [1] List. _emphractum_--a caudle, a stew. Seafood stews of this sort are very popular in the South of Europe, the most famous among them being the _Bouillabaisse_ of Marseilles. [2] Baiæ, a very popular seaside resort of the ancients located in the bay of Naples. The stew was named after the place. Horace liked the place but Seneca warned against it. [3] Tor. _spondylos_; List. _sphondylos_--scallops. Both terms, if used in connection with the shellfish are correct. Lister in several places confuses this term with _spongiolus_--mushroom. This instance is the final vindication of Torinus, whose correctness was maintained in {Rx} Nos. 41, 47, 115, _seq._; 120, 121, 183, 309, _seq._ END OF BOOK IX [1] _EXPLICIT APICII THALASSA LIBER NONUS_ [2] [1] It appears to us that Book IX and the following, Book X, judging from its recipes, phraseology and from other appearances is by a different author than the preceding books. (Long after having made this observation, we learn from Vollmer, Studien, that Books IX and X were missing in the Archetypus Fuldensis.) [2]. Tac. {Illustration: ROAST PLATTER The indenture is corrugated to receive the juices of the roast. Hildesheim Treas.} {Illustration: TITLE PAGE, TORINUS EDITION, BASEL, 1541 Inscribed with comments by Lappius, contemporary scholar. The fly-leaf bears the autograph of M. Tydeman, 1806, and references to the above Lappius. There are further inscriptions by ancient hands in Latin and French, referring to the Barnhold [_sic_] Apicius, to The Diaitetike, to Aulus Cornelius, Celsus, Hippocrates and Galen. Also complaints about the difficulties to decipher the Apician text.} {Transcription: CAELII APITII SVMMI ADVLATRICIS MEDICINÆ artificis DE RE CVLINARIA Libri x. recens è tenebris eruti, & à mendis uindicati, typisque summa diligentia excusi. PRÆTEREA, P. PLATINÆ CREMONENSIS VIRI VNDECVNQVE DOCTISSIMI, De tuenda ualetudine, Natura rerum, & Popinæ scientia Libri x. ad imitationem C. APITII ad unguem facti. AD HÆC, PAVLI ÆGINETÆ DE FACVLTATIBVS ALIMENTORVM