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The Deipnosophists; or, Banquet of the Learned of Athenæus, Vol. 1 (of 3)

Note 18:1 — BOOK I.—EPITOME.

Charles Duke Yonge translation

Vide Liddell and Scott, in voc., who say, "In Homer it is taken at sunrise; and so Æsch. Ag. 331, later breakfast was called ἀκράτισμα, and then ἄριστον was the midday meal, our luncheon, the Roman prandium, as may be seen from Theoc. iv. 90-7, 8;" and 25: translate ἑσπέρισμα supper, and ἐπιδορπὶς a second course of sweetmeats.

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