At length the king spoke.

"Give him the purple robe and the chain of gold.

Throw the wines into the Euphrates; and proclaim that the Royal Society of Wines is dissolved." ***** SCENES FROM "ATHENIAN REVELS." (January 1824.) A DRAMA.
I.
SCENE--A Street in Athens.
Enter CALLIDEMUS and SPEUSIPPUS; CALLIDEMUS.

So, you young reprobate! You must be a man of wit, forsooth, and a man of quality! You must spend as if you were as rich as Nicias, and prate as if you were as wise as Pericles! You must dangle after sophists and pretty women! And I must pay for all! I must sup on thyme and onions, while you are swallowing thrushes and hares! I must drink water, that you may play the cottabus (This game consisted in projecting wine out of cups; it was a diversion extremely fashionable at Athenian entertainments.) with Chian wine! I must wander about as ragged as Pauson (Pauson was an Athenian painter, whose name was synonymous with beggary.

See Aristophanes; Plutus, 602.