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In this sense the client was often made to feel very distinctly that he was "sitting below the salt." While the mellowest Setine or Falernian wine was poured into the patron's own jewelled goblet of gold or silver or crystal, his client might be drinking from thick glass or earthenware the poorer stuff grown on the Sabine Hills.
"You fill me with surprise," said Bardo. "Athens, then, is not utterly destroyed and swept away, as I had imagined?" "No wonder you should be under that mistake, for few even of the Greeks themselves, who live beyond the mountain boundary of Attica, know anything about the present condition of Athens, or Setine, as the sailors call it.
If it was decided to indulge in a prolonged carousal in form, heads were wreathed with garlands of roses, violets, myrtle, or ivy; lots were cast for an "umpire of the drinking," and he decided both how much wine Falernian, Setine, or Massic should be drunk, and in what degree it should be mixed with water. A large and handsome mixing-bowl stands in the dining-hall.
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