Where's the head butler ?" When my major-domo came forward, Tanno queried: "How much water did you mix with the wine we've been drinking with our dinner ?" The butler replied: "Two measures of water to one of wine." Tanno nodded to me, smiling.
"You've mighty good wine, Caius," he said.

"No one is more an expert than I and I should have conjectured three to two." "Lads," he continued, to the guests collectively, "this is the sort of master-of-the-revels I am.

I mean to start for Rome at dawn with Caius and I intend that both of us shall start cold sober.

Therefore all of us must go to bed reasonably sober.

You must submit to my rulings." Then he instructed the butler: "Give us no more of the mixture we have been drinking.