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Italy, such escape is frequently debarred the consumer of 

 anchovies, for the odour is yet worse out-of-doors than 

 in; at every step the nose is assailed from open tubs 

 (round which flies buzz their pleasure) , with an origan- 

 ized anchovy atmosphere, always offensive, but in hot 

 weather worse (though that be bad enough) than the po- 

 tent garlic which fills every church with its fumes, and 

 poisons the rising incense. The ancient Greeks, whose 

 palate was certainly depraved, had some perception of 

 odours left, and did not approve of the one in question. 

 A comic poet cited by Athenseus, speaking of a favourite 

 fish-cry in his day, which might be rendered, '^Chovies! 

 'chovies ! sweet honey 'chovies !^ sarcastically recom- 

 mends the hawkers of Hybla and Hymettus confec- 

 tionery to try their success with the public in a rival mel- 

 lifluous ditty, 'Honey! sweet honey! come out with your 

 money. And buy my sweet 'chovy, sweet 'chovy honey.' 



The Sardina, so called from the island of Sardinia 

 (which has given a name to more than one famous 

 alumnus of its coast), was a salt luxury in high repute 

 long before men had found out the art of saturating it 

 with fine oil, and preserving it in a bath of the same, 

 hermetically sealed iu boxes. It is mentioned by Epi- 

 charmus' muse as among the friandise served at Hebe's 

 wedding breakfast ; and as Galen has pronounced ' Sar- 

 dica salsamenta' to be the pleasantest of relishes, and 

 Apicius has entered it in his famous book of recipes as 

 a fit subject for far cie ; it was doubtless in one of these 

 forms a favourite mets at most opspphagists' tables. 



Three sardines or, on a bend azure, are the arms of 

 the French family Sartine; azure, a bend or, charged 

 with three sardines sable, are the arms of the Neapoli- 

 tan family Quarracino. Its English equivalent, the sprat; 

 argent, a chevron sable, between three sprats azure, are 

 the arms of the Sprats of Derbyshire.* 



* Moule. 



