And we call those festivals which are of greater magnitude and which are celebrated with certain mysterious traditions, τελεταὶ, on account of the expense which is lavished on them. For the word τελέω means _to spend_. And men who spend a great deal are called πολυτελεῖς; and those who spend but little are called εὐτελεῖς. Alexis says-- Those who with fair prosperity are bless'd, Should always keep themselves before the world; Glad to display the bounty of the gods. For they, the givers of all good, deserve A holy gratitude; and they will have it. But if, when they their gifts have shower'd, they see The objects of their bounty live like churls, Useless to all around them; who can wonder If they recall what seems so ill bestow'd? 13. A man is not fond of wine who has been used from his earliest years to drink water. But-- 'Tis sweet, at a banquet or festival meeting, To chat o'er one's wine, when the guests have done eating, says Hesiod in his Melampodia. It has not occurred to any one of you to say a word about water, though wine is made of it, and though Pindar, the most grandiloquent of poets, has said that "water is the best of all things." And Homer, too, the most divine of all poets, recognised it as a most nutritious thing, when he spoke of a grove of poplars nourished by the water. He also praises its transparent nature-- Four fountains flow'd with clearest water white;[67:1] and the water which is of a lighter nature, and of greater value, he calls "lovely:" at all events he calls the Titaresius lovely which falls into the Peneus. And he mentions also some water as especially good for washing; and Praxagoras of Cos, following his example, speaks of a water as beauteous-- Beauteous it flows, to wash all dirt away. And he distinguishes also between sweet water and brackish (πλατὺς) water; though when he calls the Hellespont πλατὺς, he uses the word in the sense of broad. But with respect to sweet water, he says-- Near the sweet waters then our ships we stay'd.[67:2] 14. He was acquainted too with the effect which warm water has on wounds: at all events he describes Eurypylus's wounds as being washed with it; and yet, if the object was to stop the hæmorrhage, cold water would have been useful, since that contracts and closes up wounds; but with the view of relieving the pain, he bathes these with warm water, which has a soothing effect. And in Homer the word λιαρὸς is used for what we call θερμὸς, _warm_. And he shows that plainly enough in what he says about the fountains of the Scamander, saying-- Next by Scamander's double source they bound, Where two famed fountains burst the parted ground; This warm, through scorching clefts is seen to rise, With exhalations steaming to the skies.[67:3] Can we call that only _warm_ from which a steam of fire, and a fiery smoke arises? But of the other source he says--