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"All honor to the doctors and professors, who bring their pupils up to the standard of my dead brother-in-law, and judging from this sample drink, you also." "Leonhard was my teacher in the 'ars bibendi. How long ago it is!"
According to the Grecian custom an arbiter bibendi must be chosen, a guest of honor who should propose the toasts, announce the moment for drinking, and direct the conversation. "Let us choose Euphobias," said Alorcus, with the grave humor of a Celtiberian. "No!" protested Sónnica. "One night we put him in charge of the banquet for a joke, and we were all drunk before the third course.
While deliberating between the merits of the others, he caught the mirthful glance of Sallust, and, by a sudden inspiration, named the jovial epicure to the rank of director, or arbiter bibendi. Sallust received the appointment with becoming humility. 'I shall be a merciful king, said he, 'to those who drink deep; to a recusant, Minos himself shall be less inexorable. Beware!
Sat. 1, 1, 106 sunt certi denique fines quos ultra citraque nequit consistere rectum; cf. Od. 2, 10. NON INTELLEGO NE: for the negatives cf. nn. on 24, 27. MAGISTERIA: generally explained as referring to the practice of appointing at each dinner a 'master of the feast', arbiter bibendi or συμποσιαρχης. This explanation is not quite correct.
"All honor to the doctors and professors, who bring their pupils up to the standard of my dead brother-in-law, and judging from this sample drink, you also." "Leonhard was my teacher in the 'ars bibendi. How long ago it is!"
Mommsen shows in his work 'de collegiis' that each one of the collegia or sodalicia annually appointed a magister cenarum whose duty it was to attend to the club-dinners during his year of office and no doubt to preside at them. That some office is meant more important than that of the arbiter bibendi appointed for a particular feast is shown by the words a maioribus instituta.
"All honor to the doctors and professors, who bring their pupils up to the standard of my dead brother-in-law, and judging from this sample drink, you also." "Leonhard was my teacher in the 'ars bibendi. How long ago it is!"
It is scarcely likely that Cicero was ignorant of the Greek origin of the custom of appointing an arbiter bibendi. ET IS SERMO etc.: 'and the kind of talk in which following the fashion of our fathers we engage, beginning at the upper table, as the cup goes round'. The cup circulated from left to right, not, as with us, from right to left.
I always long to get up and walk about. Dunsford. Do not talk of modern dinners. Think what a Roman dinner must have been. Milverton. Very true. It has always struck me that there is something quite military in the sensualism of the Romans an "arbiter bibendi" chosen, and the whole feast moving on with fearful precision and apparatus of all kinds. Come, come! the world's improving, Ellesmere.
Now we will mutually drink healths! Jörgen shall be magister bibendi, and then we will sing 'Gaudeamus igitur, and 'Integer vitae." "The Sexton with the cardinal's hat shall be the precentor!" cried one of the youths from the provinces, pointing toward a rosy-cheeked companion. "O, now I am no longer sexton!" returned the other laughing.
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