[Footnote: Boissevain thinks that No. 27 may concern the banqueting of the populace during Metellus's triumph.

But come, the day going down calls us to supper, after which succeed poem and harp, and all delights which use to crown princely banquetings.

During the second Punic war there were introduced, among people of quality, the already-mentioned banquetings on the anniversary of the entrance of the Mother of the Gods (after 550), and, among the lower orders, the similar Saturnalia (after 537), both under the influence of the powers henceforth closely alliedthe foreign priest and the foreign cook.