'Sardines and fish-sauce are your death, O Lupus.'
'Long live, ye gluttons, gourmands, belly-gods.'
'One was attracted by sow-teats and a dish of fatted fowls; another by a gourmandising pike caught between the two bridges.'
'Then he wiped the ample table with a purple cloth.'
The two last passages are reproduced by Horace in the lines:—
Unde datum sentis, lupus hic Tiberinus, an alto
Captus hiet, pontesne inter iactatus, an amnis
Ostia sub Tusci?—Sat. ii. 2. 31.
And
Gausape purpureo mensam pertersit.—Ib. ii. 8. 11.