Which the all-bounteous gods employ

To raise the hearts of men,

Consoling them for long laborious pain;

All their chief brightness owe, kind Health, to you;

You are the Graces' spring,

'Tis you the only real bliss can bring,

And no man's blest when you are not in view,

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64. They know.—For Sopater the farce-writer, in his play entitled The Lentil, speaks thus—

I can both carve and drink Etruscan wine,