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tions this Fowl, among!!: Tome others equally rare, that 
they made ufe of in their Feafis. 
Et Sqthic <£ volucres & Phcenicopterus ingens. 
We read in Suetonius how the Emperor Vitellius had 
them often ferved at his Table, with a’ great many more 
Varieties brought from the moll; diftanc Parts of the 
Univerfe; his Words are, (u) In hue Scarorum jeeinera, Plu- 
feanorum cerebella , linguas Phcenicopte/um, Muranarum ladles 
a Carpatbio ufque fret cque Hifpania perNavarchos ac 7 riremes 
petit ar urn commifcuit \ hoc eft. ab extremis imperii finibus 
Qrientem verfus &Occidentem. AndHeliogabalus, another 
of the Roman Emperors, as Lampridius writes, treated 
his Courtiers with fumptuous nice Dilhes made of the 
Inwards and Brains of Phoenicopttrs, exhibuit Palatinis in- 
gentes dapes extis (jr cercbellis Phcenicopterorum refertas. 
What is related by Gaffendus , in the Life of that learn- 
ed Nobleman Peireskius , is no Argument againft the ex- 
cellent Relifh of the Tongue of this Bird • For his Friend 
Varius , who therein Teems to contradicft the received O- 
pinion, was at that Time juft upon the Recovery from 
a longlllnefs} he had no Appetite, loathed all Sorts of 
Meats, and mended but very ftowly ; To that its no 
Wonder if he did not perceive all the Relilh of that nice 
Bit, for which of old it was To much commended. Be- 
fides, his Anfwer is not as to the Tongue, which was 
owned to be much Tweeter than that of a Kid, but to the 
Fleih of this Bird, fas will appear from the Original.) Re» 
gatui fubinde fuit de (apore carnis Pbcenicopteri Excepit au°> 
temmirari fe, cur ilium ^Ipicius apud Plinium y & Imp er at ti- 
res Caligula & Vitellius apud Suetonium , Helicgabalus apud 
Lampridium, & nonnulli alii t ant is in delhiis hahuifent. 
Effe enim earn inf cun dam , nut faporis certe non exquijiti , 
aquaticarum aliarum inflar, cum etiam pifeem cleat $ unde a 
(w) Suetonii VitdL §,13. 
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