| | | | | | | | P U| | | | S r l| | | | e i t| | | |S u m i|Tarquitius| | Antonius |u u m| | | |p S s u| | | |r u s| | | |a m L | | | | m o | | | | u c | | | | s u | | | | s At this feast there were but seven; the middle places of the highest and middle bed being vacant; and hereat was _Sertorius_ the General and principal guest slain. And so may we make out what is delivered by _Plutarch_ in his life, that lying on his back, and raising himself up, _Perpenna_ cast himself upon his stomack; which he might very well do, being Master of the feast, and lying next unto him. And thus also from this Tricliniary disposure, we may illustrate that obscure expression of _Seneca_; That the Northwind was in the middle, the North-East on the higher side, and the North-West on the lower. For as appeareth in the circle of the winds, the North-East will answer the bed of _Antonius_, and the North-West that of _Perpenna_. That the custom of feasting upon beds was in use among the _Hebrews_, many deduce from _Ezekiel_[SN: Ezek. 23.]. Thou sattest upon a stately bed, and a table prepared before it. The custom of Discalceation or putting off their shoes at meals, is conceived to confirm the same; as by that means keeping their beds clean; and therefore they had a peculiar charge to eat the Passover with their shooes on; which Injunction were needless, if they used not to put them off. However it were in times of high antiquity, probable it is that in after ages they conformed unto the fashions of the _Assyrians_ and Eastern Nations, and lastly of the _Romans_, being reduced by _Pompey_ unto a Provincial subjection.