[122] Compare Anaxandrides (_Incert. Fab._ fr. 1), Eubulus (_Chrysilla_, fr. 2; _Nannion_, fr. 1), Alexis (_Manteis_, fr. 1; _Incert. Fab._ fr. 34, 39), and the anonymous fragments on p. 756 of Didot's _Comici Græci_.
[123] I shall use the edition of Didot, one vol., 1855, for reference.
[124] Compare Antiphanes (_Didumoi_, fr. 2; _Progonoi_, fr. 1), Alexis (_Kubernetes_, fr. 1), Diodorus (_Epikleros_, fr. 1), Timocles (_Drakontion_, fr. 1), the long passage from an uncertain play of Nicolaus. The invention of the part of the Parasite is usually ascribed to Alexis, but this is clearly a mistake. That he developed it and made it a fixed character of comedy is probable enough. The _Symposium_ of Xenophon furnishes curious matter on the professional joker and diner-out as he existed at Athens.
[126] The following anonymous line (Didot's _Comici Græci_, p. 732), #synepinomen te kai synekottabizomen#, "together we drank, and played at cottabos together," seems to point to the good fellowship of the game.
[127] Compare the praises of Athens quoted from anonymous comic poets by Athenæus, i. 20, B., and by Dio Chrysost., 64, p. 334, Reisk (Didot's _Comici Græci_, pp. 723, 729).
[128] Compare Alexis (_Hippeus_, p. 536; _Meropis_, p. 550; _Olympiodorus_, p. 552; _Parasitus_, fr. 3, p. 558).
The only free gift which the gods gave men, To sleep.
Sleep, that prepares our souls for endless night.
[130] The great subject of cooks I leave for discussion in relation to the New Comedy. See below, pp. 229-231.
[131] The passages alluded to above are Eubulus (_Nannion_, fr. 1, p. 449), Xenarchus (_Pentathlos_, fr. 1, p. 624), and Philemon (_Adelphoi_, fr. 1).
[132] Mid the philosophers I count the cook.
[133] Compare Sosipater (_Katapseudomenos_, p. 677) for a similar display of science; Euphron (_Incert. Fab._ fr. 1, p. 682), for a comparison of cooks with poets; Hegesippus (_Adelphi_, p. 676), for an egregious display of culinary tall-talk.
[134] Pollux mentions a list of celebrated authors on cookery.
[135] See in particular Hegesippus (_Philetæri_, p. 676); Baton (_Androphonus_, fr. 1, p. 684, and _Synexapaton_, fr. 1, p. 686), and Damoxenus (_Syntrophi_, pp. 697, 698).
[136] The fragment from the #Halieis#, p. 3 of Didot's _Menander_, is clearly dramatic, and cannot be taken as an expression of the poet's mind.