all to
a proper thickness with port wine warmed; and then pour this same
over your chicken, which should previously be boiled in anise-seed
water."

_Liquamen_ and _Garum_ were synonymous terms for the same thing;
the former adopted in the room of the latter, about the age of
_Aurelian_. It was a liquid, and thus prepared: the _guts_ of large
fish, and a variety of small fish, were put into a vessel and well
salted, and exposed to the sun till they became putrid. A liquor
was produced in a short time, which being strained off, was the
_liquamen_.--Vide LISTER _in Apicium_, p. 16, notes.

_Essence of anchovy_, as it is usually made for sale, when it has
been opened about ten days, is not much unlike the Roman
_liquamen_. See No. 433. Some suppose it was the same thing as the
Russian _Caviar_, which is prepared from the roe of the sturgeon.

The BLACK BROTH of _Lacedaemon_ will long continue to excite the
wonder of the philosopher, and the disgust of the epicure. What the
ingredients of this sable composition were, we cannot exactly
ascertain. _Jul. Pollux_ says, the Lacedaemonian black broth was
_blood_, thickened in a certain way: Dr. LISTER (_in Apicium_)
supposes it to have been _hog's blood_; if so, this celebrated
Spartan dish bore no very distant resemblance to the
_black-puddings_ of our days. It could not be a very _alluring_
mess, since a citizen of _Sybaris_ having tasted it, declared it
was no longer a matter of astonishment with him, why the _Spartans_
were so fearless of death, since any one in his senses would much
rather die, than exist on such execrable food.--Vide _Athenaeum_,
lib. iv. c. 3. When Dionysius the tyrant had tasted the _black
broth_, he exclaimed against it as miserable stuff; the cook
replied--"It was no wonder, for the sauce was wanting." "What
sauce?" says Dionysius. The answer was,--"_Labour and exercise,
hunger and thirst, these are the sauces we Lacedaemonians use_," and
they make the coarsest fare agreeable.--CICERO, 3 Tuscul.

FOOTNOTES:

[15-*] "The STOMACH is the grand organ of the human system, upon
the state of which all the powers and feelings of the individual
depend."--_See_ HUNTER'S _Culina_, p. 13.

"The faculty the stomach has of communicating the impressions made by
the various substances that are put into