15 We are severe; difficult to please; fastidious as to good things.
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17 ... and the goose's neck.[1710]
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19 ... We murmur, are ground, sink down....[1711]
20 you whimper in the same way—[1712]
21 With such passion and hatred for him am I transported.[1713]
22 Here is Macedo if Acron is too long flaccid.[1714]
FOOTNOTES:
[1700] Samos produced a particular kind of earth (Samia creta), peculiarly serviceable in the potter's art. Hence the earthenware of Samos acquired, even in very early ages, considerable celebrity; and the potters at Samos, as at Corinth, Athens, and Ægina, formed a considerable portion of the population. See the pun on "Vas Samium," Plaut., Bacch., II., ii., 23. Vid. Müller's Ancient Art, § 62. With the sharp fragments of the Samian potsherds, the Galli, or priests of Cybele, were accustomed to mutilate themselves. Plin., XXXV., xii., 46. Juv., vi., 513, "Mollia qui ruptâ secuit genitalia testâ." Mart, iii., Ep. lxxxi., 3.