Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome

kind of culinary liquid, depending upon the occasion. It may be interpreted as brine, stock, gravy, jus, sauce, drippings, marinade, natural juice; it must be interpreted in the broadest sense, as the particular instance requires. This much disputed term has been illustrated also in page 22. Also see {Rx} 9, 42 Liquids, Summary of, p. 370 ---- thickening of, by means of flour, eggs, etc., called Liaison, cf. AMYLARE Lister, Dr. Martinus, editor, edition of 1705, title page, ditto, verso of, ditto of 1709, p. 38; frontispice ---- quoted in many foot notes, {Rx} 8, seq. ---- assailing Torinus, p. 13, {Rx} 15, 26, 100, 205 ---- edition, 1709, facsimile, p. 250 Liver kromeskis, {Rx} 44; fig-fed, of pig, {Rx} 259-60; ---- and lungs, {Rx} 291-3; ---- hash, {Rx} 293; ---- of fish, see GARUM and Pollio Lobster, {Rx} 398, 399, 400, 401, 2; in various ways LOCUSTA, a langoust, spiny lobster, large lobster without claws; {Rx} 397-402, 485; ---- ASSAE, {Rx} 398; ---- ELIXAE, {Rx} 399, 401-2 Loins, p. 285, {Rx} 286 LOLIGO, LOLLIGO, calamary, cuttle-fish, {Rx} 42, 405 LOLIUM, LOLA, darnel, rye-grass, ray-grass, meal. The seeds of this grass were milled, the flour or meal believed to possess some narcotic properties, as stated by Ovid and Plautus, but recent researches have cast some doubt upon its reported deleterious qualities. Apicius, {Rx} 50, reads LOLAE FLORIS LONGANO, a blood sausage, {Rx} 61. The LONGANONES PORCINOS EX IURE TARENTINO in {Rx} 140 is a part of the PATINA EX LACTE; a pork sausage made in Tarent of the straight gut, the rectum. Lister says they are cooked in Tarentinian sauce and are not unlike the sausage called APEXABO and HILLA. These sausages were in vogue before the Italians learned to make them; it was in Epirus, Greece, that they were highly developed. Their importation into Rome caused quite a stir, politically. Lister, {Rx} 50, p. 119, describes the sausage and calls the inhabitants of Tarent "most voluptuous, soft and delicate" because Juvenal, Sat. VI, v. 297, takes a shot at Tarent This part of Italy, and especially Sicily, because in