Needless to say many coarse fellows who boast themselves “epicures” really are merely gluttons. Their appetites have become simply animal. Rome has plenty of twin-brothers to that Santra derided by Martial, who at a banquet “asked three times for boar’s neck, four times for the loin, then for hare, thrushes, and oysters.” After that he bolted sweet cakes, and finally devoid of all decency hid some fruit and a cooked dove in the folds of his gown and sneaked home with a small jar of wine! =91. A Roman Gentleman’s Morning: Breakfast (_jentaculum_) and the Visit to the Forum.=--However, even gluttons like Santra spend all the earlier part of the day under conditions of relative abstemiousness. Romans never eat three hearty meals a day; they merely stay their stomachs until dinner, the event they ordinarily look forward to from early morning. In Calvus’s house everybody is supposed to rise at gray dawn. Just as the first bars of light are making darkness visible a _decuria_ (squad of ten) of slaves under a chamberlain (_atriensis_) brushes down the atrium and peristylium before the master and mistress rise and are dressed by their body servants. As promptly as possible these noble folk are served, often in their chambers, with their breakfast, the _jentaculum_--merely a few pieces of fine bread, sprinkled with salt or dipped in wine, and with a few raisins and olives, and a little cheese added. If Calvus is now expecting to go on a journey or to put in a hard day debating in the Senate, he may however call for some eggs and a cup of heartening mulsum. After that, the clients are let into the atrium, greet their patron with their _aves_, receive his counter greetings, and get their money doles for service (see p. 150). Next, upon an ordinary day, Calvus calls for one of his second-best togas, and issues forth. If the Senate is convening, he, of course, seeks the Curia. If not, he will often visit his banker upon the Via Sacra to talk over investments, will call at the mansion of a sick friend, will go to witness a will for another friend (a very familiar ceremony), or will go to one of the Basilicas, where still another friend is arguing a case, and expects all his best acquaintance--the more distinguished the better--to sit near him and applaud as he makes his points. During all these rounds Calvus is, of course, followed by some two dozen clients and freedmen as well as by at least as many slaves.