If hunger should attack your well-shaped person,
'Twould make you thinner than Philippides.
And the word πεφιλιππιδῶσθαι was used for being extremely thin, as we find in Alexis; who, in his Women taking Mandragora, says—
A. You must be ill. You are, by Jove, the very
Leanest of sparrows—a complete Philippides (πεφιλιππίδωσαι).
B. Don't tell me such strange things: I'm all but dead;
A. I pity your sad case.
At all events, it is much better to look like that, than to be like the man of whom Antiphanes in his Æolus says—
This man then, such a sot and glutton is he,
And so enormous is his size of body,