[48] Cato, De re rustica 26. In the Greek pictures of symposia also the slave boy carries a strainer, ἡθμός.
[49] Athenaeus i. 23 d. On the Etruscan custom of reclining at table, like the Greeks, and unlike the men of the Homeric age and later the Macedonians, who sat, see Athenaeus i. 17 f, 18 a.
[50] Athenaeus xii. 517d. Cp. Dionys. Halic. ix. 16.
[51] Isaeus iii. 14.
[52] Athenaeus iv. 153 d. (= Timaeus, fragm. 18 in Müller, Fragmenta histor. Graecorum).
[53] Friedländer, Sittengeschichte Roms i. 472, 478, 493 f.
[54] Corpus inscriptionum Etruscarum, 3858, 3860.
[55] The Etruscan character for immorality is chiefly due to Theopompus (fragm. 222 in Müller, Fragm. hist. Graec. i. p. 315), but he gives similar descriptions of the Thessalians, and seems to have specialized in chroniques scandaleuses. Of equal value is his information that the Sybarites loved the Etruscans because of their luxuriousness (Athenaeus xii. 519 b). It is regrettable that Theophrastus’ work on the Etruscans is lost; it would have provided information of quite a different character. (Cp. the Scholia to Pindar, Pythia ii. 3.)
[56] De oratore iii. 197.
[57] Livy v. 22. 5.