Book VI, 305

To Gluttony and Voracity, the deities who love well flavoured sauces, did Dorieus who stinks of... English equivalent. ‘The thrissa is a fish that goes in shoals, a little like mackerel and not particularly bony ; the chalkis is a kind of bream. dedicate these enormous Larissean boiling cauldrons, the pots and the wide-gaping cup, the well-wrought curved flesh-hook, the cheese-scraper, and the soup-stirrer. Gluttony, receive these evil gifts of an evil giver, and never grant him temperance.