PAR. 6.
I Am to follow, foote by foote, inquest after Pererius, in 13. specialties; which he determineth, were derived from the Romanes, to the Iewes, or other Asiaticks; but both of us agree that the same customes were in use, among the Nations: which consent serveth both our turnes for our maine intentions, to prove the particulars used by our Saviour, and the Jewes then living; yet the Reader, I hope will not judge the disquisition, unlearned, vaine, or unprofitable; because it shall give light, to many passages in this booke: Primò, saith Pererius, Locus, in quo caen••s, & con∣vivia agebant Romani, appellatur coenatio, coenaculum, conclave, & Triclinium, that is, the place in which the Romanes were wont to feast, and sup, is called a Parlour, or upper-roome, a closer, a supping-Chamber? I answere, this was true in the later times of the Romanes; but at their beginning, before all Italy was subdued; the plaine, military, home-spun Romans, did use to dine and sup in their Kitchins, or neare them; and the place was called Atrium, from its blackenesse, and sooty smoa∣kinesse; others made their refections, sub Dio, in the open ayre; in the end they came to sup in Apollo; and had goodly, large, costly dining-Roomes, and supping-cham∣bers, even in one house, with the proportionable rates, to be spent, in the severall Halls, or Chambers of that house; see Plutarch, in Lucullo: but grant we all this; what is his inference?