runners-to-supper

Updated: May 2, 2025

My younger sons staying too long at the plays, and coming in too late to supper, Theon's sons waggishly and jocosely called them supper hinderers, night-suppers, and the like; and they in reply called their runners-to-supper.

Plutarch - Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies