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But Antiphanes, ridiculing the Lacedæmonian banquets, in the style of the comic poets, in his drama which is entitled Archon, speaks as follows:— If you should live in Lacedæmon's walls, You must comply with all their fashions there. Go to their spare phiditia for supper, And feast on their black broth; and not disdain To wear fierce whiskers, and seek no indulgence Further than this; but keep the olden customs, Such as their country doth compel.
