The depths of the house, in which the forms of male and female slaves were moving, gleamed also with light.

In the triclinium a table was laid for four persons.
At the feast were to sit, besides Vinicius and Lygia, Petronius and Chrysothemis.

Vinicius had followed in everything the words of Petronius, who advised him not to go for Lygia, but to send Atacinus with the permission obtained from Caesar, to receive her himself in the house, receive her with friendliness and even with marks of honor.
"Thou wert drunk yesterday," said he; "I saw thee.

Thou didst act with her like a quarryman from the Alban Hills.

Be not over-insistent, and remember that one should drink good wine slowly.