Adsitis, divi, neu vos e paupere mensa
dona nec e puris spernite fictilibus.
Juvenal, Satires, III, 168.
[Even a poor man] is ashamed to dine off pottery dishes.
fictilibus cenare pudet—
Martial, Epigrams, XIV, 98.
We advise you not overmuch to despise Arretian vases: Tuscan earthenware was luxury to Porsena (W. E. Ker).
Arretina nimis ne spernas vasa monemus.
lautus erat Tuscis Porsena fictilibus.
Lucian, Prometheus, 1.