[8] ὀφείλεταί σοι παρ' αὐτής ζωάγρια.
"Who rises from a feast,
With that keen appetite that he sits down?"
Merchant of Venice.
[10] φίλημα δὲ καὶ ἀόριστόν ἐστιν, καὶ ἀκὁρεστον, καὶ καινὸν ἀεί.
[11] ἐξορχήσομαι τὰ μυστήρια, an allusion to the revealing of religious mysteries.—Liddell's Lex.
[12] οὐ μοιγεὐεται μου τὰ φιλήματα.
"Kόνωνι δέ εἴπεν ὅτι παύσει αὐτὸν μοὶχῶντα τὴν θάλατταν."
Xen. Hell. I. vi. 15.
ὧ φιλον ὕπνου θέλγητρον, ἑπίκουρον νoσου,
. . . . . .
"ὦ πότνια λήθη τῶν κακῶν, ώς εἶ σοφὴ
καὶ τoῖσι δυστυχοῦσιν εὐκτάια θεός."—Eur. Or.
"Sleep, that knits up the ravell'd sleeve of care,
The death of each day's life, sore labour's bath,
Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course.
Chief nourisher in life's feast."