in classical and Hellenistic Greece, and a rare fragment of Theognetus' work survives in 3.63.

The Deipnosophistae professes to be an account given by an individual named Athenaeus to his friend Timocrates of a banquet held at the house of Larensius (?????????; in Latin: Larensis), a wealthy book-collector and patron of the arts. It is thus a dialogue within