Lambebat medios improba lingua viros.
v. 8. Ilia, et emulso. Lucretius uses the word mulgere in the same sense in lib. 4.
C. lxxxiiii. v. 2. The first notice in the classics of our far-famed 'Arry, whose female is 'Arriet.—R. F. B.
C. lxxxviiii. v. 1. The good condition and number of the relations of Gellius are assigned as the causes of his macilency, Gellius being an adulterer of the most infamous kind. Thus Propertius, on the amorous disposition peculiar to those of a spare make,
What tho' my slender shape enervate seem,
Think not that vigour flies my meagre frame;
At Venus' rites I ne'er was known to fail,
Th' experienc'd fair can this dear truth reveal.
Proper., Eleg. 22. lib. 2.
C. lxxxx. v. 6. Omentum. The sages used to draw omens from the entrails of sacrificed beasts as they were burning; but more particularly from the omentum, or caul, that apron of fat which covers the abdominal viscera.