Endnote 4 – Dinner with Jesus & Paul

Plutarch, Table Talk 678D. Another second-century C.E. philosopher, Aulus Gellius, quoted an argument by Varro (first century B.C.E.) that the numbers at a triclinium banquet should range from three to nine; otherwise the party would become “disorderly” and would be forced to stand or sit rather than recline (Attic Nights 13.11.3).