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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Memorabilia by Xenophon: stock and contributing their own portion."
At a supper-party one member of the company, as Socrates chanced to
note, had put aside the plain fare and was devoting himself to certain
dainties.[4] A discussion was going on about names and definitions,
and the proper applications of terms to things.[5] Whereupon Socrates,
appealing to the company: "Can we explain why we call a man a 'dainty
fellow'? What is the particular action to which the term applies?[6]--
since every one adds some dainty to his food when he can get it.[7]
But we have not quite hit the definition yet, I think. Are we to be
called dainty eaters because we like our bread buttered?"[8]
[4] For the distinction between {sitos} and {opson} see Plat. "Rep."
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