He brought us garlands of the tender myrtle,
Close woven with young richly-colour'd shoots.
And Eubulus, in his Nurses, says—
For when the old men came into the house,
At once they sate them down. Immediately
Garlands were handed round; a well-fill'd board
Was placed before them, and (how good for th' eyes!)
A closely-kneaded loaf of barley bread.
And this was the fashion also among the Egyptians, as Nicostratus says in his Usurer; for, representing the usurer as an Egyptian, he says—
A. We caught the pimp and two of his companions,