Quintilian, who asserts the reverse (Inst.i.10, 20), has inaccurately transferred to private banquets what Cicero (de Orat.iii.

51) states in reference to the feasts of the gods.
11.

The city festival can have only lasted at first for a single day, for in the sixth century it still consisted of four days of scenic and one day of Circensian sports (Ritschl, Parerga, i.

313) and it is well known that the scenic amusements were only a subsequent addition.

That in each kind of contest there was originally only one competition, follows from Livy, xliv.