Dec. 18th, 2008

Analecta

Dec. 18th, 2008 10:33 am
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One of the Saturnalia gifts that Martial wrote a gift tag for is an analecta. This is a slave trained to pick up crumbs dropped during a cena lauta et vensuta (symposium) without sweeping. How strange it would be to have such a person crawling under the table during a dinner party.

Yet I find myself spending more and more of my time doing exactly that.

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