Appeased the quarrel, and when ask'd the cause of it,

Said, "What else could it be, but that one Crow

Was finding fault with the blackness of the other?"

Men say that Hippe once, the courtesan,

Had a lover named Theodotus, a man

Who at the time was prefect of the granaries

And she on one occasion late in th' evening

Came to a banquet of King Ptolemy,

And she'd been often used to drink with him

So, as she now was very late, she said,