5
When thesedays were completed, the kinggave a banquet lasting sevendays for all the people who were present at the citadel in Susa, from the greatest to the least, in the court of the garden of the king'spalace.
6
There were hangings of finewhite and violetlinenheld by cords of finepurplelinen on silverrings and marblecolumns, and couches of gold and silver on a mosaicpavement of porphyry, marble, mother-of-pearl and preciousstones.
8
The drinking was done according to the law, there was nocompulsion, for so the king had givenorders to eachofficial of his household that he should do according to the desires of eachperson.