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Title: Charicles : or, Illustrations of the private life of the ancient Greeks : with notes and excursuses
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Becker, W. A. (Wilhelm Adolf), 1796-1846 Metcalfe, Frederick, 1815-1885
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Publisher: London : Longmans, Green
Contributing Library: PIMS - University of Toronto
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n the trays, repositoria. He says, vi. 83 :Hcai ^f TLviQ TrpCJTai -paTTf^at, Kal oevreudi, kciI -pirai. Kai TplTTO^lQ /J£», if Ofy £k£ll TO . . . <ll CE tlTLTL^)ij.lf.V(lL KUL alpOf-iei at Tpawei^ai, ag pvr fjayicug i^iiXovcni, Id. x. Öl : Kui /.itji Kat raiirfriOifiea toiq rpiiroai rpcnrEÜ^ai koXoü» ra/, tea) jjiayiCeQ. Ac-cording to this, viands were served up on each of these small tables;and this agrees with the antiques. But we see from Plato, tieRepubl. i. p. 354, that the separate dishes were also handed round :wmrep ol \i)^roi toxi ätl 7ruiu>y. This is what Martial, vii. 48, calls cwna (nnhulans.Ordinary joints, poultry, and fish, among which the Copaic
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Scene VI.) THE MEALS. 820 eels are particularly celebrated (Aristoph. Acliarn. 879; Pax^1005), fjrmed of course the staple dishes, but hares (Aristoph.passim), /c/)(Xai, fieldfares, and many other things, were favouritedelicacies. When all had eaten enough, the tables were removed, whichWAS called aipeiv, äiraipeiv, ih:(j)ipeiv, I^irrrai^Eiv rag rpairii^^ac. Thefloor, on which bones, fruit-shells, &c. had been thrown, was thenswept, and water was handed round for tlie guests to wash theirhands, airovi^^arrdai^ whereupon the meal, c^iTrror, properly socalled, was closed with a libation. Chaplets and ointments werethen usually, though not invariably, handed round. So a frag-ment of Menander (Mein. p. 94) : ETt evdvs ovTca ras rpaTrt^as afpere/■ivpa, ancpduuvs eToi/xaaou, airovSas iroiei. See also Plato, Com. ap. Athen, xv. p. GG5, and Philyllios, apId. ix. p. 408. A distinction between the expressions Kara x^-pog and dTrori\paa8aL is drawn by the grammarian Aristophanes,apud Athe

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