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Show Costly Meals. The costliest meal ever served, as far as history shows, was a supper given by Aelin Yerus, one of the most lavish of the latter day Roman aristocrats. The supper was only intended for a dozen persons, yet its cost was 6,000 sestertia, which would amount to 48,000 in English Eng-lish money, or nearly a quarter of a million mil-lion dollars. The celebrated feast given by Yitel-lius, Yitel-lius, a Roman emperor of those degenerate degen-erate days, to his brother Lucius cost a fraction over $200,000. Luetonius says that this banquet consisted of 2,000 different dif-ferent dishes of fish and 7.000 different fowls, besides other courses in propor- tion. Yitellius, fortunately for the world, did not reign very long; otherwise other-wise the game preserves of Libya, Spain and Britain would have been exhausted. It may not be out of place to mention here that it is recorded as a curious point of history that a single dish on the table of the Emperor Heliogabulus was worth $200,000. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. |