Note 21 — BOOK III.
Rowland Smith translation
Ταρσοὶ—flat wicker baskets for making and stowing away cheeses.
"Ταρσοὶ μὲν τυρῶν βρῖθον."—Odyss. ix. 219.
.... "His strainers hung with cheese Distended."...—Cowper.
"Ταρσοὶ δ' ὑπερσχθἐες αἰεὶ."—Theoc. Idyll. 37.
"My cheeses fail not in their hurdled row."—Chapman.
A passage in Ovid illustrates the process of cheese-making:—
.... "Veluti concretum vimine querno Lac solet; utve liquor rari sub pondere cribri Manat, et exprimitur per densa foramina spissus." Met. xii. 434