Ἀπίκιος
Apicius
Translated by Catharine Roth5 Jun 2000Vetting: high9 revisions
Translation
A Roman, who had spent countless sums of money on his stomach, in Kintouri [a city] of Galatia1 eating many shrimp, for they are bigger than the largest of those in Smyrna and the lobsters in Alexandria. So when he heard that very large shrimp occur in Libya, he sailed out without waiting even one day. But once he had observed that they were small, he ordered the helmsman to sail back again the same way to Italy, not even approaching land.
Greek original · Adler’s text
Ἀπίκιος, Ῥωμαῖος, ἱκανὰς μυριάδας ἀργυρίου καταναλώσας ἐς τὴν γαστέρα, ἐν Κιντούροις τῆς Γαλατίας πολλὰς καρίδας ἐσθίων· μέγισται γάρ εἰσι τῶν ἐν Σμύρνῃ· καὶ τοὺς ἐν Ἀλεξανδρείᾳ ἀστακούς. ἀκούσας οὖν ἐν Λιβύῃ γίνεσθαι καρίδας ἐξέπλευσεν οὐδὲ μίαν ἡμέραν ἀναμείνας. θεασάμενος δὲ αὐτὰς μικρὰς ἐκέλευσε τῷ κυβερνήτῃ τὴν αὐτὴν ὁδὸν αὖθις ἐπ' Ἰταλίαν ἀναπλεῖν, μηδὲ προσπελάσας τῇ γῇ.
Betacode
*)api/kios, *(rwmai=os, i(kana\s muria/das a)rguri/ou katanalw/sas e)s th\n gaste/ra, e)n *kintou/rois th=s *galati/as polla\s kari/das e)sqi/wn: me/gistai ga/r ei)si tw=n e)n *smu/rnh|: kai\ tou\s e)n *)alecandrei/a| a)stakou/s. a)kou/sas ou)=n e)n *libu/h| gi/nesqai kari/das e)ce/pleusen ou)de\ mi/an h(me/ran a)namei/nas. qeasa/menos de\ au)ta\s mikra\s e)ke/leuse tw=| kubernh/th| th\n au)th\n o(do\n au)=qis e)p' *)itali/an a)naplei=n, mhde\ prospela/sas th=| gh=|.
Notes (1)
- Nicholas Purcell in OCD(4) p.117, s.v. Apicius: 'proverbial cognomen of several Roman connoisseurs of luxury, especially in food, in particular M. Gavius Apicius (PIR(2) G91 [...] in the Tiberian period, i.e. early 1st cent. AD'. The collection of recipes transmitted under his name, however, is fourth-century.↩
The present entry's material, after the opening ethnikon, summarizes Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 1.7A-C (1.12 Kaibel).
See also alpha 3213, alpha 3214.- 1So again at kappa 387 and kappa 1649. But manuscript M has corrected this place-name in the present entry to "Minturnae," the resort in Campania (not Galatia) where, according to Athenaeus, this Apicius resided. Paul Maas argued that manuscript M was the work of Eustathius of Thessalonica, but Adler was not convinced (vol. 5, p. 273).
References
P. Maas, "Eustathios als Konjekturalkritiker," Byzantinische Zeitschrift 35 (1935) 307
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