Grice e Mecenate

 Maecenas' known works include a Symposium, with such notables on the

can be trusted, some pretty clever dinner conversation.Servius, Aeneid 8,310: Facilesque oculos fert omnia circum: physici dicunt ex vino mobiliores oculos fieri. Plautus faciles oculos habet, id est mobiles vino. Hoc etiam Mae-cenas in Symposio ubi Vergilius et Horatius interfuerunt, cum ex persona Messallae de vi vini loqueretur, ait 'idem umor ministrat faciles oculos, pulchriora reddit omnia et dulcis

¡uventae reducit bona.' Cf. Plut. Mor. frag. 180: 'Ev tô cuvosívo tỘ toû Manva
TúTEÇa ¿YYóo, N unò tị Koía tò HéyE0os HeyíGTh Kai kán2os auaxos. kai ola sikòs
ETAVOUV ARZOL ANNOS AUTHV O SE TÓPTIOS, OUK EXOV O TI MAp ¿AUTOû TEpaTEÚGaGOaL,
Glyñ ysvousn, "EKsivo dE ouK ¿vvosits, d pior Guunótal, Oc otpoYyún sotì Kai ayav
rEpIpEp'S." ¿ TOÍVUV TẬ ¿páTO KORaKsia, Ó5 tÒ siKóS, yéS KatEppáyn. For the pos-sibility that this incident may come from Maecenas' Symposium see Jiráni 1932, 1-12;
Lunderstedt 1911, 92-93. Perhaps Maecenas' Symposium should be added to the list of possible antecedents for Petronius' Cena.