[85]. Martial, II., 15:
“You do not offer your cup to any man; it is discretion, Hermus, forbids, not pride.”
And VI., 44:
“No one, Calliodorus may drink from your cup.”
Seneca: When Caius Caesar accepted sums of money for the expense of the games from friends who brought them to him, he refused to take a large amount from Fabius Persicus. His friends not looking at the character of the sender, but at the value of the sum sent, reproached him for having refused. “What!” said he, “am I to accept the service of a man from whose cup I should decline to drink?” (De Beneficiis, II., 21.) Fabius Persicus was a fellator not a cunnilingue; this is apparent from the controversy in which Seneca engaged about him, viz: what a prisoner should do whom a man promised to buy off, at the price of having his body prostituted, and his mouth sullied.
[86]. Martial, XII., 75:
“It is no little matter, Flaccus if you drink with them; and then have to break the cup they touched.”
And Macedonius in the Analecta of Brunck, III., 116:
“There drank a woman with me yesterday, whose fame is anything but good;—go break the cups, my lads!”
[87]. Martial, XI., 96: