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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—E

Eating Together

To eat together in the East was at one time a sure pledge of protection. A Persian nobleman was once sitting in his garden, when a man prostrated himself before him, and implored protection from the rabble. The nobleman gave him the remainder of a peach which he was eating, and when the incensed multitude arrived, and declared that the man had slain the only son of the nobleman, the heart-broken father replied, “We have eaten together; go in peace,” and would not allow the murderer to be punished.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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