Roman poet and satirist Martial, referring to the disagreeable effects of leek upon the breath of the eater, suggested:
The juice of the leek who fondly sips,
To kiss the fair, must close his lips.
Fortunately for him, the Emperor Nero was dead before Martial’s Epigrams were published about 86 A.D. According to Pliny, Nero brought leeks into great repute among the Romans by eating them with oil to clear his voice for singing. Hence, the satirical name of leek eater – porrophgus. Neither this nor his other practices endeared him to the elite of Roman society. On 6 June 68 AD, threatened with assignation, he was killed by his private secretary Epaphroditus obeying Nero’s orders. “Qualis artifex pereo” – “What an artist dies with me,” he is reputed to have said..
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