You have a Thessalian horse, Erasistratus, but the drugs of all Thessaly cannot make him go; the real wooden horse, that if Trojans and Greeks had all pulled together, would never have entered at the Scaean gate; set it up as an offering to some god, if you take my advice, and make gruel for your little children with its barley.
XXXIX A MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE LUCILIUS
Antiochus once set eyes on Lysimachus' cushion, and Lysimachus never set eyes on his cushion again.
XL CINYRAS THE CILICIAN DEMODOCUS
All Cilicians are bad men; among the Cilicians there is one good man,
Cinyras, and Cinyras is a Cilician.
XLI A GENERATION OF VIPERS AUTHOR UNKNOWN
Keep clear of a cobra, a toad, a viper, and the Laodiceans; also of a mad dog, and of the Laodiceans once again.
XLII THE LIFEBOAT NICARCHUS
Philo had a boat, the Salvation, but not Zeus himself, I believe, can be safe in her; for she was salvation in name only, and those who got on board her used either to go aground or to go underground.