A convivial feast implies a communion of life

Our fathers did well in calling the reclining of friends at feasts a convivium, because it implies a communion of life...that which gives feasts their greatest charm. M. Tullius Cicero. Cato the Elder: on old age, De Senectute. Section 45.


Image: Reenactment of a Roman banquet courtesy of Wikimedia Commons contributor Museo de historia de Valencia.

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