For he has contrived to bring into his book an account of fishes, their uses and names with their derivations also vegetables of all sorts and animals of every description historians, poets, philosophers, musical instruments, innumerable kinds of jests he has also described drinking-cups in all their variety, the wealth of kings, the size of ships, and other matters so numerous that I could not easily mention them all for the day would fail me if I undertook to enumerate them kind by kind. Not one of their excellent sayings has Athenaeus failed to mention. The Sophist at Dinner is its title, and the subject is a banquet given by a wealthy Roman named Larensis, who has summoned as guests the men of his time most learned in their several branches of knowledge. Athenaeus is the father of this book, which he addresses to Timocrates.
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