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| Ants | While an ant was wandering under the shade of the tree of Phaeton, a drop of amber enveloped the tiny insect; thus she, who in life was disregarded, became precious by death. |
| Appearance | Rarity gives a charm; so early fruits and winter roses are the most prized; and coyness sets off an extravagant mistress, while the door always open tempts no suitor. |
| Bees | The bee is enclosed, and shines preserved, in a tear of the sisters of Phaeton, so that it seems enshrined in its own nectar. It has obtained a worthy reward for its great toils; we may suppose that the bee itself would have desired such a death. |
| Birds | That which prevents disagreeable flies from feeding on your repast, was once the proud tail of a splendid bird. |
| Birds | Birdes of a feather will flocke togither. |
| Birds | Every bird that upwards swings Bears the Cross upon its wings. |
| Borrowing | He who prefers to give Linus the half of what he wishes to borrow, rather than to lend him the whole, prefers to lose only the half. |
| Borrowing | You give me back, Phoebus, my bond for four hundred thousand sesterces; lend me rather a hundred thousand more. Seek some one else to whom you may vaunt your empty present: what I cannot pay you, Phoebus, is my own. |
| Borrowing | I have granted you much that you asked: and yet you never cease to ask of me. He who refuses nothing, Atticilla, will soon have nothing to refuse. |
| Bravery | In adversity it is easy to despise life; he is truly brave who can endure a wretched life. |
| Comparisons | Some are good, some are middling, the most are bad. |
| Comparisons | Such are thou and I: but what I am thou canst not be; what thou art any one of the multitude may be. |
| Cookery | I seem to you cruel and too much addicted to gluttony, when I beat my cook for sending up a bad dinner. If that appears to you too trifling a cause, say for what cause you would have a cook flogged. |
| Cookery | A cook should double one sense have: for he Should taster for himself and master be. |
| Cookery | If your slave commits a fault, do not smash his teeth with your fists; give him some of the biscuit which famous Rhodes has sent you. |
| Eating | I am a shell-fish just come from being saturated with the waters of the Lucrine lake, near Baiae; but now I luxuriously thrust for noble pickle. |
| Eating | You praise, in three hundred verses, Sabellus, the baths of Ponticus, who gives such excellent dinners. You wish to dine, Sabellus, not to bathe. |
| Eating | Philo swears that he has never dined at home, and it is so; he does not dine at all, except when invited out. |
| Eating | Mithriades, by frequently drinking poison, rendered it impossible for any poison to hurt him. You, Cinna, by always dining on next to nothing, have taken due precaution against ever perishing from hunger. |
| Eating | Annius has some two hundred tables, and servants for every table. Dishes run hither and thither, and plates fly about. Such entertainments as these keep to yourselves, ye pompous; I am ill pleased with a supper that walks. |
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