Note 29 — BOOK III.
Rowland Smith translation
Tὸ ὁμοτράπεζου—to have eaten at the same table, was considered an inviolable obligation to friendship; and ἅλα καὶ τράπεζαν πάραβαίνειν, to transgress the salt and the table; or in other words to break the laws of hospitality and to injure those by whom they had been entertained, was considered one of the greatest crimes.—Robinson's Antiq. of Greece.