With respect to Lupins. Alexis says— A curse upon the man; Let him not come near me, who eats lupins in season, And then leaves the husks and shells in the vestibules Why was he not choked while eating them I know, I know most certainly, that Cleænetus the tragedian Did not eat them. For Cleænetus Never threw away the husk of a single vegetable, So exceedingly economical is that man. And Lycophron of Chalcis, in a satiric drama which he wrote against
 Menedemus the philosopher, for the purpose of turn- ing him
 into ridicule, (it was from Menedemus that the sect of the Eretrians derived its
 name,) laughs at the suppers of the philosophers, and says— The lupin, common to all the people, in great plenty Danced upon the board, the companion of poor couches. And Diphilus says— There is no business more mischievous or degrading Than that of the pander. I would rather walk along the streets selling Roses, and radishes, and lupin-beans, and press'd olives, And anything else in the world, rather than give encouragement To such a miserable trade. And you may observe, that he then uses the expression θερμοκύαμοι, lupin-beans, as they are called even now.
 Polemo says, that the Lacedæmonians call lupins λυσιλαΐδες. And Theophrastus, in his book about The Causes of
 Plants, tells us that the lupin, and the bitter vetch, and the common vetch, are
 the only kinds of green vegetable which do not produce animal life, because of
 their harshness and bitterness. But the vetch, says he, turns black as it decays.
 He says, also, that caterpillars come in vetches, and it is in the fourth book of
 the same treatise that he states this. Diphilus the Siphnian writer says that
 lupins are very apt to create moisture, and are very nutritious, especially those
 kinds Which are rendered sweet by being soaked. On which account Zeno the Citiæan,
 a man of harsh disposition and very apt to get in a passion with his friends, when
 he had taken a good deal of wine, became sweet-tempered and gentle; and when
 people asked him what produced this difference in his disposition, he said, that
 he was subject to the same influences as lupins: for that they before they were
 cooked were very bitter; but that when they had been steeped in liquor they were
 sweet and wholesome.