...regulations of the sumptuary laws: " The products of the earth," he says, in a letter to Fabius Gallus, " being excepted out of the restrictions of that act,...high a taste, that nothing can be more palatable." The large tracts of garden-ground every where devoted to the cultivation of artichokes, brought to...

...regulations of the sumptuary laws : " The products of the earth," he says, in a letter to Fabius Gallus, " being excepted out of the restrictions of that act,...them in so high a taste, that nothing can be more palatable."1 The large tracts of garden-ground every where devoted to the cultivation of artichokes,...

...I owe it to the frugal regulations of the sumptuary law'. The products of the earth being eicepted out of the restrictions of that act ; our elegant...a dish of this sort, at the inauguration feast of Lentulue *, that I was seized with a diarrhoea, which has never ceased till this day. Thus yon see,...

...so may he be a glutton upon vegetables. "Our elegant eaters," says Cicero, in one of his letters, " in order to bring vegetables into fashion, have found...at the inauguration feast of Lentulus, that I was attacked with a disorder which has never ceased till this day. Thus you see that I, who have withstood...

...so may he be a glutton upon vegetables. "Our elegant eaters," says Cicero, in one of his letters, " in order to bring vegetables into fashion, have found...at the inauguration feast of Lentulus, that I was attacked with a disorder which has never ceased till this day. Thus you see that I, who have withstood...