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And in the same manner Gellias of Agrigentum, being a very hospitable man, and very attentive to all his guests, gave a tunic and cloak to every one of five hundred horsemen who once came to him from Gela in the winter season.
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The sophist uses the word Dinnerchaser, on which Clearchus says that Charmus the Syracusan adopted some little versicles and proverbs very neatly to whatever was put on the table. As on seeing a fish, he says:— I come from the salt depths of Aegeus' sea. And when he saw some ceryces he said— Hail holy heralds (κήρυκες), messengers of Jove. And on seeing tripe, Crooked ways, and nothing sound. When a well-stuffed cuttlefish is served up, Good morrow, fool. When he saw some pickled char, O charming sight; hence with the vulgar crowd. And on beholding a skinned eel,
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Beauty when unadorn'd, adorn'd the most.
