A.And I will seek the forum, there to find
Some one to take my work.
B.I wish you would,
You would all have less time to follow me,
Like any hungry (νῆστις) cestreus.

And Euphron says, in his Ugly Woman—

Midas then is a cestreus—see, he walks
Along the city fasting (νῆστις).

[[483]] And Philemon says, in his Men dying together—

I bought me now a nestis cestreus roasted
Of no great size.

Aristophanes, in his Gerytades, says—

Is there within a colony of man cestres?
For that they all are νήστιδες you know.

Anaxandrides says, in his Ulysses—

He usually goes supperless about,
Like a cestrinus nestis.

And Eubulus, in his Nausicaa, says—