A theatre, that is, in which animals and birds and human beings should meet in common.

All that is said here about the milk, the menses, and the blood, I have been obliged somewhat to condense and paraphrase. The ancients sometimes speak more plainly than we can. Ever and anon one must pare down a phrase or word in translating an ancient author. It is inevitable. Verbum sat sapienti.

Ibid. xi. 269-271.

A fragment from Euripides, according to Xylander.

Evenus of Paros was an Elegiac Poet.

Aristophanes, "Equites," 50, 51.