sed quia mentio conviviorum semel incidit tuque sic carmen nobis vel ad aliam causam personamque compositum sedulo exposcis, ut me eius edendi diutius habere non possis haesitatorem, suscipe libens quod temporibus Augusti Maioriani, cum rogatu cuiusdam sodalis ad cenam conveniremus, in Petri librum magistri epistularum subito prolatum subitus effudi, meis quoque contubernalibus, dum rex convivii circa ordinandum moras nectit oxygarum, Domnulo, Severiano atque Lampridio paria pangentibus
But as convivial parties have been mentioned, and as you urgently demand from me even one written for another occasion and another person, and as your insistence is such as to permit no further hesitation on my part, be pleased to receive one which goes back to the time of the Emperor Majorian. We were assembling for dinner at the invitation of a friend when a book by Petrus the Imperial Secretary was suddenly produced, whereupon I with similar suddenness wrote this effusion about it, during the interval in which the master of the feast was tarrying over the preparation of the relishes. My cronies Domnulus, Severianus, and Lampridius composed similar pieces
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