PS. Cum coronâ ebrium pseudolum meum[2].
And in Amphytrion, Mercury says,
Ibo inter et capiam ornatum qui potius decet.[2a]
“I’ll go in and take the ornament which better becomes me.” For he had said a little before,
Capiam coronam in caput, assimulabo me esse ebrium.[2a]
I’ll put a crown upon my head, and feign myself drunk.
Lipsius[3] furnished me with these examples.
But I should never have done, if I endeavoured to give a list of all the kings that got drunk.
———— “Quorum si nomina quæras
Promptius expediam quot amaverat Hippia mæchos,