lectis

Updated: January 31, 2026

Among the points of bad breeding which Cicero attributes to his enemy Calpurnius Piso, the consul of 58, one was that he put five guests to recline on a single couch, while himself occupying one alone; so Horace: Saepe tribus lectis videas cenare quaternos.

W. Warde (William Warde) Fowler - Social life at Rome in the Age of Cicero