The Deipnosophists; or, Banquet of the Learned of Athenæus, Vol. 1 (of 3)

And the arrangement of the conversation is an imitation of a sumptuous banquet; and the plan of the book follows the arrangement of the conversation.

对话的安排模仿了一场奢华的盛宴；这本书的结构也依照对话的次序展开。

So that the whole party was so numerous that the catalogue looks rather like a muster-roll of soldiers, than the list of a dinner party.

于是整场聚会的宾客之多，使得那份名单看起来更像士兵的花名册，而不像是宴会的来宾名单。