Verify Citation - 6. The Distributive Justice of Group Feasts and Banquets
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Query: 6. The Distributive Justice of Group Feasts and Banquets
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Plutarch (Table Talk 617c) concluded that the mortal host who ignored this principle and failed to assign his guests to their proper places at the table “turns an individual’s prerogative (each man’s according to his worth) into common property,” committing a theft of “the recognition due to virtue, kinship, public service, and such things… Though he thinks that he avoids being offensive to his guests, he… offends each one of them by depriving him of his accustomed honor.”
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