BOOK I.--EPITOME.
The Character of Laurentius--Hospitable and Liberal Men-- Those who have written about Feasts--Epicures--The Praises of Wine--Names of Meals--Fashions at Meals--Dances--Games --Baths--Partiality of the Greeks for Amusements--Dancing and Dancers--Use of some Words--Exercise--Kinds of Food-- Different kinds of Wine--The Produce of various places-- Different Wines 1-57
BOOK II.--EPITOME.
Wine--Drinking--The evils of Drunkenness--Praises of Wine --Water--Different kinds of Water--Sweetmeats--Couches and Coverlets--Names of Fruits--Fruit and Herbs--Lupins--Names of--Plants--Eggs--Gourds--Mushrooms--Asparagus--Onions-- Thrushes--Brains--The Head--Pickle--Cucumbers--Lettuce-- The Cactus--The Nile 57-121
BOOK III.
Cucumbers--Figs--Apples--Citrons--Limpets--Cockles-- Shell-fish--Oysters--Pearls--Tripe--Pigs' Feet--Music at Banquets--Puns on Words--Banquets--Dishes at Banquets-- Fish--Shell-fish--Fish--Cuttle-fish--Bread--Loaves--Fish-- Water Drinking--Drinking Snow--Cheesecakes--=Chondoos= 121-210
BOOK IV.
Feast of Caranus--Supper of Iphicrates--Cooks--Dancing at Banquets--The Attic Banquet--Athenian Feasts--The Copis-- The Phiditia--Cleomenes--Persian Banquets--Alexander the Great--Cleopatra--Banquets at Phigalea--Thracian Banquets --Celtic Banquets--Roman Banquets--Gladiatorial Combats-- Temperance of the Lacedæmonians--The Theory of Euxitheus-- Lentils--Spare Livers--Persæus--Diodorus--Extravagance-- Luxury of the Tarentines--Extravagance of Individuals-- Cooks' Apparatus--Use of Certain Words--Tasters--The Delphians--Musical Instruments--Kinds of Flutes--Wind Instruments 210-287