The Deipnosophists; or, Banquet of the Learned of Athenæus, Vol. 3 (of 3)

BOOK XII.

1. YOU appear to me, my good friend Timocrates, to be a man of Cyrene, according to the Tyndareus of Alexis—

For there if any man invites another To any banquet, eighteen others come; Ten chariots, and fifteen pairs of horses, And for all these you must provide the food, So that 'twere better to invite nobody

And it would be better for me also to hold my t...