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 And Antiphanes, in his Leonidas, says—

He will be here before we've finish'd supper ([Greek: dedeipnanai]).

And Aristophanes, in his Proagon, says—

It's time for me to go now to my master, For by this time I think they all have supp'd ([Greek: dedeipnanai]).

And in his Danaides he says—

You now are insulting me in a drunken manner Before you've supp'd ([Greek: dedeipnanai]).

And Plato, in his Sophist, and Epicrates of Ambracia (and this last is a poet of the middle comedy), in his Amazons, says—

For these men seem to me to have had their supper ([Greek: dedeipnanai]) In capital season.

And, on the same principle, Aristophanes has given us the form [Greek: êristamen], in his Men Frying—

We've drank our fill, my men, and well have dined ([Greek: êristamen]).

And Hermippus, in his Soldiers, says—

To dine ([Greek: aristanai]), and come to this man's house.

And Theopompus, in his Callæschrus, says—

We've dined ([Greek: êristamen]);—for I must this discourse cut short.

But, in his Politician, Antipho has used the word [Greek: kataristan], saying—

When any one has all consumed in dinners ([Greek: katêristêken]) His own estate, and that of all his family.

And Amphis has used the word [Greek: paradedeipnêmenos], in his Vagabond, saying—

The boys who long ago have lost their dinner ([Greek: paradedeipnêmenoi]).

21. "Let us, then, now," as Plato says in his Philebus, "pray to the gods, and pour libations to them, whether it be Bacchus, or Vulcan, or whoever else of the gods it may be, who has had the honour of having our cups mixed for his sake. For there are two fountains by us, as if we were cup-*bearers to mix the wine: and a person might compare a fountain of pleasure to honey; but the fountain of wisdom, which is a sober and wine-eschewing spring, to that of some hard but wholesome water, which we must be very earnest to mix as well as possible." It is, then, time for us now to drink wine; and let some one of the slaves bring us goblets from the sideboard, for I see here a great variety of beautiful and variously-ornamented drinking-cups. Accordingly, when a