It is yet undecided whether the Persians admitted their matrons to their public banquets and private parties;but if we can believe the positive testimony of Herodotus, such was the case: and the summons of Vashti to the annual festival, and the admission of Haman to the queen's table, are facts which support the affirmation of that historian.

Which those seven Persian princes did to Ahasuerus, that they might requite the desire of Queen Vashti with the love of others."