BOOK VI. The memory of a useful discourse gives pleasure long afterwards, 338, 339. _Question_ 1. Why are those that are fasting more inclined to drink than to eat? 339, 340. 2. Whether hunger and thirst are caused by want of nourishment or by a change in the pores or passages of the body, 341-344. 3. Why is hunger allayed by drinking, but thirst increased by eating? 345, 346. 4. Why is a bucket of water drawn out of a well, and left to stand all night in the air that is in the well, colder next morning than the rest of the water? 347, 348. 5. Why do pebble-stones and leaden bullets, thrown into the water, make it more cold? 348, 349. 6. What is the reason that snow is preserved by covering it with chaff and cloths? 350, 351. 7. Ought wine to be strained? 351-354. 8. What is the cause of Bulimy, or the greedy disease? 355-358. 9. Why does Homer appropriate to each particular liquid a special epithet, and use none when speaking of oil? 359, 360. 10. Why is the flesh of sacrificed animals, after being awhile upon a fig-tree, more tender than before? 361, 362. BOOK VII. _Question_ 1. Plato defended for saying that drink passeth through the lungs, 363-367. 2. What humored man is he whom Plato calls κερασβόλος, and why do seeds that fall on oxen’s horns become ἀτεράμονα? 368-370. 3. Why is the middle of wine, the top of oil, and the bottom of honey the best? 370, 371. 4. Why did the ancient Romans remove the table before all the meat was eaten, and why not extinguish the lamp? 372-375. To leave something for the servants, 374. “Leave something for the Medes”: a proverb in Boeotia, 375. 5. That we ought carefully to preserve ourselves from pleasures arising from bad music; and how it may be done, 376-380. Bad music, the loose ode, enervates and debauches the mind. Have recourse to that which is pure and good, ib. 6. Concerning those guests that are called shadows, whether being invited by some of the invited guests, but not by the entertainer, they ought to go to the house; and if so, in what cases? 381-387. Such a person is placed at a disadvantage on joining the company, and why, 382. But an invited guest, who has liberty to invite others may do so, yet with due caution and discretion; and the others may go, 385, 386. 7. Whether flute-girls may be admitted to a feast, 387, 388. 8. What sort of music is fittest for an entertainment? 389-394. Not tragedy, it is too grave and dignified, 390. But the New Comedy, as that of Menander, or a song with pipe or harp, 391, 392. 9. That the Greeks, as well as the Persians, were accustomed to debate state affairs at their entertainments, 394. 10. Was that a good custom? 395-398. Are men wise over their wine? 396. Men may drink freely, and yet not lose their wit, 397.