Whether woodcock or partridge, what does it signify, if the taste is the same? But the partridge is dearer, and therefore thought preferable.

You praise, in three hundred verses, Sabellus, the baths of Ponticus, who gives such excellent dinners. You wish to dine, Sabellus, not to bathe.

If my opinion is of any worth, the fieldfare is the greatest delicacy among birds, the hare among quadrupeds.

However great the dish that holds the turbot, the turbot is still greater than the dish.

See, how the liver is swollen larger than a fat goose! In amazement you will exclaim: Where could this possibly grow?

As long as I have fat turtle-doves, a fig of your lettuce, my friend, and you may keep your shell-fish to yourself. I have no wish to waste my appetite.