sentences:  Dishes that were intended to be eaten as well as entertain can be traced back at least to the early Roman Empire.In his "Satyricon", the Roman writer Petronius describes a dish consisting of a rabbit dressed to look like the mythical horse Pegasus.The function of the entremets was to mark the end of a course, "mets" (a serving of several dishes), of which there could be several at a banquet.