Aristophon. (Book vi. § 34, p. 376.)

If I'm at once forbid to eat or drink,

I'm a Tithymallus or Philippides.

If to drink water only, I'm a frog—

To feed on leaves and vegetable diet,

I am at once a very caterpillar—

Forbid the bath, I quarrel not with filth—

To spend the winter in the open air,

I am a blackbird; if to scorch all day,