 | Juvenal - 1802 - 574 pages
...in his own opinion treated us with much splendid frugality; but according ta mine, in a sordid, yet expensive manner. Some very elegant dishes were served...different sorts of wine ; not that the guests might lake their choice, but that they might not have an option in their power. The best was for himself... | |
 | Juvenal - Satire, Latin - 1806 - 586 pages
...in his own opinion treated us with much splendid frugality ; but according to mine, in a sordid, yet expensive manner. Some very elegant dishes were served...power. The best •was for himself and his friends of thejirst rank ; the next for those of a lower order ; and the third for his own and his guests' f reedmen.... | |
 | Juvenal - Satire, Latin - 1806 - 582 pages
...in his own opinion treated us with much splendid frugality ; but according to mine, in a sordid, yet expensive manner. Some very elegant dishes were served...guests might take their choice, but that they might vat have an option in their power. The best was for himself and his friends of the first rank ; the... | |
 | Juvenal - Satire, Latin - 1806 - 572 pages
...yet expensive manner. Some very elegant dishes wire served up to himself and a few more of us; schile those which were placed before the rest of the company,...their power. The best was for himself and his friends ofthe first rank; the next for those of a lower order; and the third for his own and his guests' freedmen.... | |
 | Perse, Juvénal - Latin poetry - 1817 - 596 pages
...who in his own opinion treatedus with much splendid frugality ; butaccording to mine, in a sordid yet expensive manner. Some very elegant dishes were served...small bottles, three different sorts of wine ; not tfuit the guests might take their choice, but that they might not have an option in their power. The... | |
 | Juvenal - Verse satire, Latin - 1839 - 572 pages
...in his own opinion, treated us with much splendid frugality ; but according to mine, in a sordid yet expensive manner. Some very elegant dishes were served...not have an option in their power. The best was for Ir r- If and his friends of the first rank ; the next for those of a lower order ; and the third for... | |
 | Algernon Percy Duke of Northumberland, William Henry Smyth - Coins, Roman - 1856 - 372 pages
...own opinion, treated us with much splendour and frugality ; but, according to mine, in a sordid yet expensive manner. Some very elegant dishes were served up to himself and a few more of the company ; while those which were placed before the rest, were extremely cheap and mean. There were... | |
 | Pliny (the Younger) - 1878 - 466 pages
...good style and economically as well, but according to mine, with meanness and extravagance combined. Some very elegant dishes were served up to himself and a few more of us, whilst those placed before the rest of the company consisted simply of cheap dishes and scraps. There... | |
 | Pliny (the Younger.) - 1905 - 502 pages
...good style and economically as well, but according to mine, with meanness and extravagance combined. Some very elegant dishes were served up to himself and a few more of us, whilst those placed before the rest of the company 46 THE LETTERS OF PLINY. [BOOK 2. consisted simply... | |
 | Marcus Tullius Cicero - Friendship - 1909 - 532 pages
...good style and economically as well, but according to mine, with meanness and extravagance combined. Some very elegant dishes were served up to himself and' a few more of us, whilst those placed before the rest of the company consisted simply of cheap dishes and scraps. There... | |
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Some very elegant dishes were served up to himself, and a few more of us ; while those which were placed before the rest of the company, were extremely cheap and mean. There were, in small bottles, three different sorts of wine ; not that the guests might... 
