8
As was usual. See Homer, "Odyssey," i. 146. Cf. Plautus, "Persa," v. iii. 16: "Hoc age, accumbe: hunc diem suavem meum natalem agitemus amœnum: date aquam manibus: apponite mensam."
9
From a play of Eupolis called "The Flatterers." Cf. Terence, "Eunuchus," 489-491.
10
See Athenæus, 256 D. Compare also Valerius Maximus, ix. 1.
11
"Videatur Casaubonus ad Athenæum, vi. p. 243 A."—Wyttenbach.
12
"Republic," p. 361 A.