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Θερσάνδρου. The story is notable because it is one of the four cases (cf. ii. 55; iii. 55, and iv. 76) in which H. gives the name of his informant (cf. Introduction, p. 29). The fifty ‘Thebans’ doubtless included men from other cities of Boeotia.

κλῖναι. The subject must be Attaginus, who as host would arrange this. In Greece it was usual that only two should recline on one couch at supper (Plat. Symp. 175 C), whereas the Roman lectus held three.

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