Note 213-2 — Chapter I
John J. (John Joseph) Lalor translation
According to Sir F. M. Eden, State of the Poor, I, 254, it is one of the most unambiguous symptoms of advanced civilization when families eat regularly at the same table; so also sleeping in real beds. "Bed and board!" It is said that the regularity of meal times was introduced among the Greeks by Palamedes. Athen. I, 11, after Æschylus.