“Upon the completion of [uvimlot] those days” – it is written uvimlot [plene, with the extra vav],8It is not clear if this is merely a textual note or somehow related to the following dispute between Rav and Shmuel. “the king made for all the people who were present…a banquet for seven days.” Rav and Shmuel: One said: Seven, besides the one hundred and eighty. And Shmuel said: Seven, included in the one hundred and eighty. Rabbi Simon said: This Shushan citadel was like a royal court,9Alternatively, the Hebrew word komititon, which comes from the Latin commesatio, meaning a drunken revel. stocked with food and drink. Rabbi Ḥanina bar Pappa said: The great men of the generation were there and they fled.10The Jewish dignitaries fled because they heard that the king was displaying the Temple vessels and demeaning them. Rabbi Ḥanina bar Atal said: Jews were there at that feast. That wicked one [Aḥashverosh] said to them: ‘Is your God capable of preparing more than this for you?’ They said to him: ‘“No eye has seen, besides You, God, what will be done for one who awaits Him” (Isaiah 64:3). Were He to make a feast like this for us, we would say to Him: We already ate this at the table of Aḥashverosh.’