Book IV

. p. 107), and led by them into the Hall where he would receive the greeting of the assembled company. When all were seated the guest would say who he was, and whence he came, but, if he kept silence on this point, it was not etiquette to ask him till the next morning (cf. Book III . p. 95). The evening meal then followed, after which, on occasions of great festivity, such as that recounted in