Mess. That was the cleverest device of all, sir.
The geese with their webbed feet, as though with spades (ἄμαις),
Dipp’d down, and laid it neatly on the hods.
Peisth. What feat indeed may not be wrought with feet?
Mess. Aye, and the ducks, by Jove, all tightly girt,
Kept carrying bricks, and other birds were flying,
With trowel on their head, to lay the bricks;
And then, like children sucking lollipops,
The swallows minced the mortar in their mouths.
(Kennedy’s Trans.)