haec non per vulgum mihi cognita perque popinas aut parasitorum collegia Plautinorum, set festos quia saepe dies partim ipse meorum excolui inque vicem conviva vocatus adivi, natalis si forte fuit sollemnis amico coniugiove dapes aut sacra repotia patrum, audivi meminique bonos laudare frequentes.
These are known to me not from common company nor from taverns, nor from the guilds of Plautine parasites, but because I myself have often celebrated festal days, sometimes with gatherings of my friends, or going in turn to banquets as a bidden guest, when perchance a friend observed a birthday or a marriage feast, or a carouse sanctioned by our fathers custom: there I have heard many a worthy man praise these, and I remember them.
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