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Love of Pleasure Luxury of the Persians Profligacy of the Lydians Persian Customs The Sybarites The Tarentines The Milesians The Abydenes The Colophonians Luxury of the Syrians Of the Asiatic Kings Sardanapalus Philip The Pisistratidæ Alcibiades Pausanias Diomnestus Alexander Polycrates Agrigentum Lucullus Aristippus The Persian Epicurus Anaxarchus Ptolemy Euergetes The Lacedæmonians Cinesias Anointing Venus Callipyge.
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You appear to me, my good friend Timocrates, to be a man of Cyrene, according to the Tyndareus of Alexis— For there if any man, invites another To any banquet, eighteen others come; Ten chariots, and fifteen pairs of horses, And for all these you must provide the food, So that 'twere better to invite nobody And it would be better for me also to hold my tongue, and not to add anything more to all that has been said already; but since you ask me very earnestly for a discussion on those men who have been notorious for luxury, and on their effeminate practices, you must be gratified.
