An continentes quod sedetis insulsi
Centum, aut ducenti, non putatis ausurum
Me una ducentos irrumare sessores?
(Think you, because you sit there side by side, a hundred fools, or two hundred, think you I shan’t dare to irrumate two hundred sitters at once?).
[28] Aelian, Hist. Anim. bk. VI. ch. 24., ἡ δὲ ἡσύχως καὶ πεφεισμένως τοῦ ἑαυτῆς στόματος ἀνατρέπει αὐτούς. (but the fox, quietly and so as to forbear biting with its mouth, turns them over). ch. 64., ἥδε χανεῖν τε καὶ ἐνδακεῖν οὐ δυναμένη, κᾆτα οὔρησεν αὐτοῦ ἐς τὸ στόμα. (but she—the fox—being unable to open her mouth and fix her teeth in, finally made water into its mouth).
[29] Virgil, Aen. VI. 494., says of Deiphobus, Helen’s paramour:
Atque hic Priamiden laniatum corpora toto
Deiphobum vidit, lacerum crudeliter ora,
Ora manusque ambas, populataque tempora raptis
Auribus, et truncas inhonesto vulnere naris.