His wife could eat no lean,

And so between them both

They licked the platter clean.

Sprattus horrescens adipem recusat,

Uxor et non vult tolerare macrum:

Conjuges digni! potuêre sic de-

tergere lancem.

Σπράττος ὠμηστὴς στέαρ ἐξέλειπεν‧