About three or four nights every week, peasant debtors, bearing gifts of meat and wine, would feast the principal in the school rooms, trying to persuade him not to foreclose on their land.

We found a cellist (who's also a fantastic pianist) and someone to play first violin, and we played one weekend afternoon in my flat, with cups of tea and a cake for after.

These agapes probably refer to the taking of the Communion, The Lord's Supper,but in the context of a bigger meal as we've seen was the case also in Corinth.