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The meanest of the rowers felt the caprices of a potentate, the itch to imitate the opulent for a night that they might console themselves with its memory in future days of hunger; and they asked for oysters from Lucrinus, which an occasional ship brought packed in amphoræ with sea water as a delicacy for the great merchants of Saguntum, or the oxygarum, salted fishmilt, prepared with vinegar and spices as an appetizer for which the patricians of Rome paid a great price.
There was also served oxygarum made in the fisheries of New Carthage a paste of tunny milt, loaded with salt and vinegar, which excited the palate, stimulating one to drink wine. The aroma from these dishes floated through the festal hall. "Talk not to me about the nest of the phœnix!" said Euphobias with his mouth full.
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