Alcibiades, a man who well understood how to make good cheer, banished even music from the table, that it might not disturb the entertainment of discourse, for the reason, as Plato tells us, "that it is the custom of ordinary people to call fiddlers and singing men to feasts, for want of good discourse and pleasant talk, with which men of understanding know how to entertain one another."
elkar jotzen eta oztopatzen dute. Altzibiadesek, atseginetan gizon aditua baitzen, musika bera kanporatzen zuen mahaietarik, solasen eztitasuna nahas ez zezan, zeren, Platonek ematen dio arrazoi hau, lagun herrikoien ohitura baita beren mahaietara musikajole eta abeslarien erakartzea, hitzaldi on eta solas ateginen eskasean, adimeneko jendeek hauetaz baliatzen baitakite.