Chapter VII: Book II: Question 1. What are the most agreeable questions and

most pleasant raillery at an entertainment? 229-240. Questions are
agreeable when they give a man opportunity to display his knowledge,
to relate his own exploits, or to describe his own prosperity,
230-232. Raillery is pleasant when it refers to faults of which we
are known to be innocent; when it implies gratitude for a favor
bestowed; and when it proceeds from evident good humor, 233-240. 2.
Why in autumn are men’s stomachs better than in other seasons of the
year, 240, 241. 3. Which was first, the bird or the egg? 242-246.
The perfect must come before the imperfect, 244. 4. Is wrestling the
oldest exercise? 246, 247. 5. Why, in reckoning up different kinds of
exercises, does Homer put them in this order,—Cuffing, Wrestling,
Racing? 248, 249. 6. Why cannot Fir-trees, Pine-trees, and the
like be grafted upon? 250, 251. 7. About the fish called Remora or
Echeneis, 252. Why the horses called λυκοσπάδες are very mettlesome,
253. 9. Why the flesh of sheep bitten by wolves is sweeter than that
of others, and the wool more apt to breed lice, 254. 10. Whether the
ancients who provided for every one his mess did better than we who
set many to the same dish, 255-258.

BOOK III. Wine reveals men’s secret thoughts, 259. _Question_ 1.
Whether it is becoming to wear chaplets of flowers at table, 260-265.
Flowers were designed for our pleasure, 262. They have a good
medicinal effect, 264. 2. Whether Ivy is of a hot or cold nature,
265-267. 3. Why women are hardly, old men easily, intoxicated,
268-270. 4. Whether the temper of women is colder or hotter than
that of men, 270-272. 5. Whether wine is potentially cold, 272-274.
6. Which is the fittest time for a man to know his wife? 274-279. In
the evening, not in the daytime, 276-278. 7. Why new wine does not
intoxicate, 279, 280. 8. Why persons thoroughly drunk appear better
than those only half-drunk, 281. 9. What means the saying, Drink
either five or three, but not four? 282, 283. 10. Why flesh stinks
sooner when exposed to the moon than to the sun, 284-287.

BOOK IV. A feast should be used for the cultivation of friendship,
288. _Question_ 1. Whether different sorts of food or one single
dish, fed upon at once, be more easily digested, 289-295. 2. Why
mushrooms are thought to be produced by thunder, and why it is
believed that men asleep are never thunderstruck, 295-300. 3. Why men
usually invite many guests to a wedding supper, 300, 301. 4. Whether
sea or land affords better food, 302-306. 5. Whether the Jews abstain
from swine’s flesh because they worship that creature, or because
they have an antipathy against it, 307-310. 6. What God is worshiped
by the Jews? Bacchus, 310-312.