Buy if you can a cestreus which has come
From the sea-girt Ægina; then you shall
For well-bred men be fitting company.
Diocles, in his Sea, says—
The cestreus leaps for joy.
79. But that the nestes are a kind of cestreus, Archippus tells us, in his Hercules Marrying:—
Nestes cestres, cephali.
And Antiphanes, in his Lampon, says—
But all the other soldiers which you have
Are hungry (νήστεις) cestres.
And Alexis, in his Phrygian, says—
So I a nestis cestreus now run home.
Ameipsias says, in his Men playing at the Cottabus—