Note 54 — THE FIFTY COURTESIES FOR THE TABLE, OF FRA BONVESINO[13] DA RIVA.
William Michael Rossetti translation
This is affirmed by Xenophon of the Persians: he says in the Cyropædia that, both of old and in his own time, they did without either spitting or blowing the nose—a proof of temperance, and of energetic exercise which carried off the moisture of the body.