Of every article she saw. And seeing

A handsome butcher standing at his stall,

Just in the flower of youth,—"Oh, in God's name,

Tell me, my youth, what is your price (πῶς ἴστης) to-day?"

He laugh'd, and said, "Why, if I stoop, three obols."

"But who," said she, "did give you leave, you wretch,

To use your Carian weights in Attica?"

Stratocles once made all his friends a present

Of kids and shell-fish greatly salted, seeming

To have dress'd them carefully, so that his friends