Martial Quotes About Eating
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I am a shell-fish just come from being saturated with the waters of the Lucrine lake, near Baiae; but now I luxuriously thrust for noble pickle.
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See, how the liver is swollen larger than a fat goose! In amazement you will exclaim: Where could this possibly grow?
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If my opinion is of any worth, the fieldfare is the greatest delicacy among birds, the hare among quadrupeds.
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You praise, in three hundred verses, Sabellus, the baths of Ponticus, who gives such excellent dinners. You wish to dine, Sabellus, not to bathe.
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However great the dish that holds the turbot, the turbot is still greater than the dish.
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Plautus Playwright -
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Marcus Tullius Cicero Philosopher -
Catullus Poet -
Apuleius Prose writer -
Statius Poet -
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Suetonius Historian -
Seneca the Younger Philosopher -
Horace Poet