Excerpt from The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athenæus, Vol. 3 of 31. 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, 80 that 'twere better to invite nobody And it would be better for me also to hold my tongue, and not to add anything more to all that has been said already, but since you ask me very earnestly for a. Discussion on those men who have been notorious for luxury, and on the practices, you must be gratified. 2. For enjoyment is connected, in the first instance, with appetite, and in the second place, with pleasure. And Sopho cles the poet, being a man fond of enjoyment, in order to.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.