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Show THE BANQUETS OF NERO. Wore Partaken of Reclining, a Position Po-sition Singularly Appropriate to the Occasions. "Whon Nero dined," Bald an actor recently, "there wore three courses, eaten lying down, and dances went on, or contests of wild beasts, or oven fights of gladiators, and tho various dlsl.es wero brought In to music by slaves who danced as thoy approached. , "Tho first courfo was composed of hors d'oouvrcs eggs, British oysters, lettuce, olives and bo on. To begin a mt.nl with eggs still is popular in Italy. "Tho socond course comprised all tho substantial foods. Turbot (a kind of giant flounder), poacock, flamingo, sucking pig, boar, venison and truffles were brought In upon a huge round tray carried by four or five dancing slaves. 1'to third courso was the dessert can lies, fruits, pastrios. "Tho guests at Nero's dlnnors put on dinner dresses of bright colors. They lay on couches on their sides, threo to 'u couch, nnd they supported tho head on the loft nrm, which, from practlco grown muscular, ondurod tho long, hard work of supporting tho head without fatlguo. Thoy ato with tho fingers. Tho tablo was over a foot distant dis-tant from thorn, nnd It was necossary whon they wnnted a fresh handful of food another bit of flamingo or of peacock for thorn to roll over on their BtomacliB In order to reach It. "The wines wero fine, nnd thoy woro used too freely. In fact, so much wlno was consumed at theso Neronlc banquets ban-quets that If tho gucsU had not commenced com-menced to dino lying down, thoy would havo ended in that nttltudo undoubtedly." |