Book 2
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There were tables with ivory feet, the top slabs of which were made of maple wood. Cratinus says— Fair girls await you, and a table Of highly polish'd dappled maple. And when one of the Cynics used the word τρίπους, meaning a table, Ulpian got indignant and said, "To-day I seem to have trouble coming on me arising out of my actual want of business; for what does this fellow mean by his tripod, unless indeed he counts Diogenes' stick and his two feet, and so makes him out to be a tripod'? At all events every one else calls the thing which is set before us τράπεζα.
