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Wednesday, February 14, 2007
Table Talk
Norman Douglas, quoted by Elizabeth David in An Omelette and a Glass of Wine (1984; rpt. Penguin Books, 1986), p. 127:
I have been perusing Seneca's letters. He was a cocoa-drinker, masquerading as an ancient.