But the word κατακεῖσθαι is used, and also κατακεκλῖσθαι, of reclining at meals: as Xenophon and Plato prove in their essays called the Banquet. Alexis too says-- 'Tis hard before one's supper to lie down, For if one does one cannot go to sleep; Nor give much heed to aught that may be said; One's thoughts being fix'd on what there'll be to eat. Not but what the word ἀνακεῖσθαι is used in this sense, though rarely. The satyr in Sophocles says-- If I catch fire I'll leap with a mighty Spring upon Hercules, as ἀνακεῖται. And Aristotle says, when speaking of the laws of the Tyrrhenians, "But the Tyrrhenians sup, ἀνακειμένοι with the women under the same covering." Theopompus also says-- Then we the goblets fill'd with mighty wine, On delicate couches κατακειμένος, Singing in turn old songs of Telamon. And Philonides says-- I have been here κατακειμένος a long time. And Euripides says in the Cyclops-- Ἀνέπεσε (which is the same as ἀνέκειτο) Breathing forth long and deep and heavy breath. And Alexis says-- After that I bade her ἀναπεσεῖν by my side. 43. The ancients, too, used the word πάσασθαι for to taste. And so Phœnix says to Achilles, "You would not πάσασθαι anything in any one else's house. And in another place we find-- When, they ἐπάσαντο the entrails: for they only taste the entrails, so that a great multitude might have a taste of what exists in but a small quantity. And Priam says to Achilles-- Now I have tasted food, (πασάμην.) For it was natural for a man suffering under such calamities as his, only just to taste food, for his grief would not permit him to go so far as to satisfy his hunger. And therefore, he who did not touch food at all is called "fasting," ἄπαστος. But the poet never uses the word πάσασθαι of those who eat their fill; but in their case he uses words which express satiety:-- But when their minds were pleased (τάρφθεν) with wholesome food; and, When they had ceased to wish for meat and drink. But more modern writers use the word πάσασθαι for being satisfied. Callimachus says-- I should like to satiate (πάσασθαι) myself with thyme; and Eratosthenes-- They roasted their game in the ashes and ate it, (ἐπάσαντο) at least they all did who could get it. 44. We find in the Theban bard the expression, "glueing them together as one would glue one piece of wood to another." Seleucus says that the expression so common in Homer, δαῖτα θάλειαν, is the same as δίαιτα by a slight alteration of the arrangement of the letters; for he thinks that is too violent a change to consider it as derived from δαίσασθαι. Carystius of Pergamos relates that the Corcyrean women sing to this day when playing at ball. And in Homer, it is not only men who play, but women also. And they used to play at quoits also, and at throwing the javelin, with some grace:--