[216] Αὐτὰρ ἐπεὶ πόσιος καὶ ἐδητύος ἐξ ἔρον ἕντο, Μνησάμενοι δὴ ἔπειτα φίλους ἔκλαιον ἑταίρους, Od. 12. 309, 310. ‘Postquam exempta fames’ occurs 8. 184, ‘mensaeque remotae’ below, v. 723. ‘Epulis’ here is an instrum. abl. ‘Mensae remotae’ is not appropriate to this occasion, but is the general phrase for concluding a meal, derived from the Roman practice of removing the ‘mensae’ (Dict. A. ‘mensa’).
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