14 These carry before them huge fishes, for a present, thirty in number—
15 ... that you might not be able to shake out the door-peg with your hand, and even by yourself force out the bar with a wedge.[1667]
16 He is longer than a crane—
17 To scour the fields ... the whelps and young of wild beasts.
18 ... and when he is such a handsome man, and a youth worthy of you.
19 ... he places under this, he adds four props with nails.[1668]
20 ... who eats himself, devours me—
21 I was drunk and bloated.
FOOTNOTES:
[1656] Lapathus is the "sorrel," which, it appears, the Romans cultivated in their gardens with great care. It was called, in its wild state, Rumex. It was used at banquets, on account of its purgative qualities, together with the Coan wines, which possessed the same properties. Cf. Hor., ii., Sat. iv., 27. Pers., Sat. v., 135. Gumia is a "glutton, epicure, belly-god." (Lurco, comedo, helluo, gulæ mancipium.) The etymology is uncertain. Merula reads in all places gluvia, whence ingluvies.