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[783c] before the common meals, but also, as I said just now, we shall discuss more exactly the character of the common meals, and thus be more likely to prescribe for them laws that are suitable and fitting.

Clinias
You are perfectly right.

Athenian
Let us, then, bear in mind the things we mentioned a moment ago; for probably we shall need them all presently.

Clinias
What are the things you bid us remember?

Athenian
Those we distinguished by the three terms we used: we spoke, you recollect, of eating, secondly of drinking, and

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