Sop
A sop in the pan. A bonnebouche, tit-bit, dainty
morsel; a piece of bread soaked in the dripping of meat caught in a
dripping-pan; also a bribe. (See below.)
To give a sop to Cerberus.
To give a bribe, to quiet a troublesome customer. Cerberus is
Pluto's three-headed dog, stationed at the gates of the infernal
regions. When persons died the Greeks and Romans used to put a cake in
their hands as a sop to Cerberus, to allow them to pass without
molestation.
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