Martial Quotes about Eating

Martial, Henry George Bohn (1914). “The Epigrams of Martial: Translated Into English Prose. Each Accompanied by One Or More Verse Translations, from the Works of English Poets, and Various Other Sources”
However great the dish that holds the turbot, the turbot is still greater than the dish.
Martial (1871). “The Epigrams of Martial”, p.598