IUS DIABOTANON IN PISCE FRIXO (Fish in Herb Sauce)

(Apic. 10, 1, 1) Ingredients:

• 4 cod steaks (or other firm white fish)
• 3 tsp ground cumin
• 3 tsp coriander seed
• 3 tsp oregano
• 3 tsp rue
• 1 garlic
• 1 carrot
• Honey
• Oil
• Vinegar
• Defritum (or grape juice honey)
• Liquamen (or salt)
• Black pepper to taste

Instructions:
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Prepare clean, salt, turn in flour, salt and fry the fish. Crush pepper, cumin, coriander seed, oregano, rue and garlic, all crushed fine; moistened with vinegar, a carrot, honey, oil, Defritum and Liquamen. Pour in a sauce pan, place on fire, when simmering pour over the fried fish, sprinkle with pepper and serve.

 

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This small house stands opposite the well-known House of Menander in Vicolo Meridionale, which can be reached directly from Via Stabiana by taking the side street almost opposite the Temple of Jupiter Meilichios. The name was given to the house by the archaeologists who chose it from one of the nine election slogans painted on the front wall. The rooms are decorated with original third style paintings: in the winter triclinium, to the right of the four-columned atrium with its fountain in the impluvium, we see a young Bacchus offering wine to a tiger; in the next room, adjacent to the garden, there are paintings of busts of satyrs and maenads. The decorations on the t ... continue

(Apic. exc. 17) Ingredients:

• 500 g cooked and prepared big shrimps
• 1 tsp green pepper
• 1 tblsp Privet
• 1/2 tsp ground celery seeds
• 2-3 tblsp vinegar
• 100 ml Liquamen (or 1/2 tsp salt)
• 4-5 hacked hard-boiled egg yolks

Instructions:
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Cook shrimps. Then mesh ground pepper, celery seeds and privet. Pour vinegar, Liquamen and egg yolks over it and mix thoroughly. Pour the mixture over the shrimps and serve.

Love was a common topic of conversation in Pompeii. Feelings, passions, poetic love, sex, homosexuality, prostitution and so forth were all part of daily life and not a source of prejudice. The concept of “obscenity” seems to have been unknown. Love and sex were considered earthly practices of a man’s life that were encouraged by the benevolence of Venus. The thousands of examples of graffiti found on the town’s walls are unequivocal proof of what the people of Pompeii thought about love and sex.