Ameipsias says, in his Men playing at the Cottabus—
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).
FISH.
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—