As an Amphitryon chez qui l'on dine, no one knows better than Ouidà the uses of a recherché dinner.—E. Yates, Celebrities, xix.

"Amphitryon": Le véritable Amphitryon est l'Amphitryon où l'on dine ("The master of the feast is the master of the house"). While the confusion was at its height between the false and true Amphitryon, Socie [Sosia] the slave is requested to decide which was which, and replied—

Je ne me trompois pas, messieurs; ce mot termine

Toute l'irrésolution;

Le véritable Amphitryon

Est l'Amphitryon où l'on dine.

Molière,

Amphitryon

, iii. 5 (1668).

Demosthenes and Cicero