John Trapp on John 2:8

Verſe 8. The governour of the feaſt.] The Jewes had a ſort of officers at their feaſts, called praefecti morum, [non-Latin text not transcribed], Gaudentius. Caſaubon. the Eyes and Overſeers of the feaſt, that tooke care that none ſhould drink too much. The Latines called them Dictatours; the Greeks, plautus. Sympoſiarchs: Howbeit, among the Greeks, thoſe officers power extended no further, then to ſee, that at feaſts or banquets, Heyl. Geog. [illegible: 1 letter]79. Hin[illegible: 1 letter] pergraecari[illegible: 1 letter] and, as merry as a Greeke. men dranke ſmall draughts only at firſt, which by degrees they increaſed, till they came to their height of intemperancy: At which point, when they were arrived, they kept no rule, nor order: whereas before, to drink out of ones turn, or beyond his allowance, was counted incivility.