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THe Graciant also, at first, did fit, and not lye downe onbeds; I observed before, that in the beginning, the Lacedamonians fashion was to sit: they of Crete held it a horrible thing to lye downe at meate, saith Alexander ab Alex. ibid. King Alexander ate his ••eate sitting, saith he, and yet within three leaves after, (even
in the same forecited Chapter) he saith, fertur Alexander Macedo, appetente nocte, coenâsse, & primo diluculo, prandio accubuisse: Alexander of Macedon supped at eare∣ly night, and lay downe to dinner, at the first shine of morning.