BOOK IV

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Feast of Caranus--Supper of Iphicrates--Cooks--Dancing at Banquets--The Attic Banquet--Athenian Feasts--The Copis-- The Phiditia--Cleomenes--Persian Banquets--Alexander the Great--Cleopatra--Banquets at Phigalea--Thracian Banquets --Celtic Banquets--Roman Banquets--Gladiatorial Combats-- Temperance of the Lacedæmonians--The Theory of Euxitheus-- Lentils--Spare Livers--Persæus--Diodorus--Extravagance-- Luxury of the Tarentines--Extravagance of Individuals-- Cooks' Apparatus--Use of Certain Words--Tasters--The Delphians--Musical Instruments--Kinds of Flutes--Wind Instruments 210-287

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