Book 10
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And so, after this conversation, Ulpian drinking a goblet of wine, said— I drink this cup, a pledge of friendship dear, To all my kinsmen, naming them. And while he was still drinking, one of those who were present quoted the rest of the passage— When I have drunk, I'll say The rest; for I am choked: but now drink this. And Ulpian, when he had drunk it up, said,—Clearchus has these lines in his Harp Player; but I, as is said in the Wool-spinners of Amphis, recommend— Let the boy wait on all with frequent goblets. And again— You fill for me, and I will give you drink; So shall the almond with the almond play: as Xenarchus says, in his Twins. And accordingly, where some of the guests asked for more wine, and others wished to have it mixed half-and-half, and when some one mentioned that Archippus, in the second edition of his Amphitryon, said— Wretch, who has mix'd for you this half-and-half? and that Cratinus had said— Giving him half-and-half; but I'm undone; every one seemed to agree to speak of the way of mixing wine among the ancients.
