The guest is either a boatman or a parasite,
A hanger-on of hell, with hungry belly,
Which nought can satisfy.
However, as he gives no answer whatever to all these things which have been said, I order him (as it is said in the Twins of Alexis) to be carried out of the party, crowned with χύδαιοι garlands. But the comic poet, alluding to χύδαιοι garlands, says—
These garlands all promiscuously (χύδην) woven.
But, after this, I will not carry on this conversation any further to-day; but will leave the discussion about perfumes to those who choose to continue it: and only desire the boy, on account of this lecture of mine about garlands, as Antiphanes....
To bring now hither two good garlands,
And a good lamp, with good fire brightly burning;
for then I shall wind up my speech like the conclusion of a play.
And not many days after this, as if he had been prophesying a silence for himself [which should be eternal], he died, happily, without suffering under any long illness, to the great affliction of us his companions.