No classical stranger could ever pass the porter in his lodge at Brazenose, without being sensibly reminded of a favourite passage in Horace, and exclaiming,
"Quis multà gracilis—puer in rosâ,
Perfusus liquidis—odoribus
Grato——sub antro."
"Procumbit humi bos." This is not the first time the Doctor has been overcome by port.
"Hine exaudiri gemitus, et sæva sonare
Verbera, tum stridor ferri tractæque catenæ."