calling the food of the vultures and other birds by this name, though it is man alone who has come to an equal division after his previous violence, on which account it is his food alone that is called δαὶς, and the portion given to him is called μοῖρα. But the feasters mentioned in Homer did not carry home the fragments, but when they were satisfied they left them with the givers of the feast; and the housekeeper took them in order, if any stranger arrived, to have something to give him. 22. Now Homer represents the men of his time as eating fish and birds: at all events, in Sicily the companions of Ulysses catch All fish and birds, and all that come to hand With barbed hooks.[20:2] But as the hooks were not forged in Sicily, but were brought by them in their vessel; it is plain that they were fond of and skilful in catching fish. And again, the poet compares the companions of Ulysses, who were seized by Sylla, to fish caught with a long rod and thrown out of doors; and he speaks more accurately concerning this act than those who have written poems or treatises professedly on the subject. I refer to Cæcilius of Argos, and Numenius of Heraclea, and Pancrates the Arcadian, and Posidonius the Corinthian, and Oppianus the Cilician, who lived a short time ago; for we know of all those men as writers of heroic poems about fishing. And of prose essayists on the subject we have Seleucus of Tarsus, and Leonidas of Byzantium, and Agathocles of Atracia. But he never expressly mentions such food at his banquets, just as he also forbears to speak of the meat of young animals, as such food was hardly considered suitable to the dignity of heroes of reputation. However, they did eat not only fish, but oysters; though this sort of food is neither very wholesome nor very nice, but the oysters lie at the bottom of the sea, and one cannot get at them by any other means, except by diving to the bottom. An active man is he, and dives with ease;[21:1] as he says of a man who could have collected enough to satisfy many men, while hunting for oysters. 23. Before each one of the guests in Homer is placed a separate cup. Demodocus has a basket and a table and a cup placed before him, To drink whene'er his soul desired.[21:2] Again the goblets _are crowned with drink_; that is to say, they are filled so that the liquor stands above the brim, and the cups have a sort of crown of wine on them. Now the cupbearers filled them so for the sake of the omen; and then they pour out πᾶσιν, ἐπαρξάμενοι δεπάεσσιν,[21:3] the word πᾶσιν referring not to the cups but to the men. Accordingly Alcinous says to Pontonous, Let _all_ around the due libation pay To Jove, who guides the wanderer on his way;[21:4] and then he goes on, All drink the juice that glads the heart of man.