Prose halieutics; or, Ancient and modern fish tattle / Fraser's magazine.
- Charles David Badham
- Date:
- 1854
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Prose halieutics; or, Ancient and modern fish tattle / Fraser's magazine. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.
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![ledge, therefore it is enacted that she do surrender and give up all her personal property, and also her dower/ We have no heart to pursue such calumnies any further; Muse, changeons de style et quittons la satire, C’est un mediant metier que celui de medire; and we have, besides, a brief notice to give, before con- cluding, of a Greek and a Roman feast. There were, from an early period, two different kinds of entertainments known in Greece, the one called epavos, where the guests {epavicrral) each furnished a quota of the charge;* though some, particularly poets and singers, were admitted gratuitously (aavpLfidXot), and were said, in consequence, to feast aicairvoi, without smoke, i. e. without paying for the kitchen-fire. These repasts re- sembled in some respects the modern table d’hote enter- tainment; and in common with it possessed the solid ad- vantages of being at once frugal, sociable, and indepen- dent. They were at one time so prudently conducted as to have passed for schools of sobriety (BiSaa/caXela <Tco(jypocrvvr]s), where the young might sit to learn lessons of moderation from the old, and observe much that was worthy of their imitation. The other kind was a ban- quet to which a host sent his SecTrvoKXrjTcop, or chasseur, with special invitations to those whom he proposed to feast at his own charge. This, unlike the last, soon be- came a riotous and ruinously expensive affair, not only on account of the exertions of the entertainer to furnish the best supplies in his power, but chiefly because his friends, making a very improper return for so much cour- tesy, swilled and guttled in wanton and wasteful excess, # Nearly akin to these were the 8ehrva ano anvpldas, or basket feasts ; whereas . . . when Scarron his companions invited, Each guest brought his dish, and the feast was united. Goldsmith.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b24974456_0544.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
