633. Moreover, they take a delight in prolonged repasts, not on account of the luxury of the foods, but because of the greater sweetness of the companionship when they sit and eat together. They do not sit upon chairs or benches, nor upon elevated grassy banks nor upon grass, to which they are averted as if there was something unclean under them, but they place leaves beneath them. And when I wanted to know what leaves they were, and mentioned the leaves of the fig tree, such as those with which Adam and Eve girded themselves before they were provided with tunics of sheepskin, they affirmed it. 1748, Feb. 2.