Show costly steal the costliest meal ever served as far as history shows was a supper given by aclin verus one of the most lavish of the latter day roman aristocrats the supper was only intended for a dozen persons yet its cost was which would amount to in english money or nearly a quarter of a million dollars the celebrated feast given by vitel lius a roman emperor of those degenerate days to his brother lucius cost ft fraction over Lue tonius says that this banquet consisted of 2000 different dishes of fish and different fowls besides other courses in proportion Vit ellins fortunately for the world did not reign very long otherwise the game preserves of libya spain and britain would have been exhausted it may not bo out of place to mention here that it is recorded as a curious point of luetory that a single diali on the table of the emperor was worth St louis globe democrat |