Actually, I was also thinking of Claudius' dinner party with Livia (and the very young Caligula) where all of his friends (including, iirc, Herod) commiserate loudly before he goes, and ask him what he'd like at his funeral, and he drinks two glasses of wine straight off to prove a point.
Awful dinner parties in I, Claudius, redux
Date: 2014-07-10 06:11 pm (UTC)But Lollia does take the prize.