Servants, dressed in purple, bore golden cups, and courteously did the office of serving the drink, pacing in ordered ranks.

Nor did they fail to offer the draught in the horns of the wild ox.
The feast glittered with golden bowls, and was laden with shining goblets, many of them studded with flashing jewels.

The place was filled with an immense luxury; the tables groaned with the dishes, and the bowls brimmed over with divers liquors.

Nor did they use wine pure and simple, but, with juices sought far and wide, composed a nectar of many flavours.

The dishes glistened with delicious foods, being filled mostly with the spoils of the chase; though the flesh of tame animals was not lacking either.