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whereupon Lucullus said to them with a smile,
‘Some of this expense, my Grecian friends, is indeed on your account; most of it, however, is on account of Lucullus.’ And once, when he was dining alone, and a modest repast of one course had been prepared for him, he was angry, and summoned the servant who had the matter in charge. The servant said that he did not suppose, since there were no guests, that he wanted anything very costly.
‘What savest thou?’ said the master,
‘dost thou not know that to-day Lucullus dines with Lucullus?’
Plutarch. Plutarch's Lives. with an English Translation by. Bernadotte Perrin. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1914. 2.
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