In his sorrowing bosom he supports the dying body of his spouse, and with his tears he bathes her cruel wounds. Her breath departs; and gradually fleeting from her senseless breast, her breath [1124] is received into the mouth of her wretched husband. But let us return to our path; I must deal with my subject undisguised, that my wearied bark may reach its port. You may be waiting, in fact, for me to escort you to the banquet, and may be requesting my advice in this respect as well. Come late, and enter when the lights are brought in; delay is a friend to passion; a very great stimulant is delay. Even should you be ugly, to the tipsy you will appear charming: and night itself will afford a concealment for your imperfections. Take up your food with your fingers; [1125] the method of eating is something; and do not besmear all your face with your dirty hand. And do not first [1126] take food at home; but cease to eat a little sooner than you could wish, and could have eaten. Had the son of Priam seen Helen greedily devouring, he would have detested her; and he would have said, "That prize of mine is an oaf." It is more proper and is more becoming for the fair to drink to excess. Thou dost not, Bacchus, consort amiss with the son of Venus. This too, only so far as the head will bear it, and the senses and the feet will be able to perform their duty; [1127] and do not see each object that is single, as double. A woman sprawling along, and drenched in plenteous wine, is a disgusting object; she is worthy to endure the embraces of any kind of fellows. And it is no safe thing when the tables are removed to fall asleep; in sleep many a shocking thing is wont to happen. I feel ashamed to instruct you any further, but genial Dione says, "That which shames you is especially my own province." Let each particular then be known unto you:= `````----modos a corpore certos ````Sumite; non omnes una figura decet. ```Quse facie prsesignis eris, resupina jaceto: ````Spectentur tergo, quîs sua terga placent. ```Milanion humeris Atalantes crura ferebat: ````Si bona sunt, hoc sunt accipienda modo. ```Parva vehatur equo: quod erat longissima, nunquarc ````Thebais Hectoreo nupta resedit equo. ```Strata premat genibus, paulum cervice reflexâ, ````Foemina, per longum conspicienda latus. ```Cui femur est juvenile, carent cui pectora mendâ, ````Stet vir, in obliquo fusa sit ipsa toro. ```Nec tibi turpe puta crinem, ut Phylleia mater, ````Solvere: et effusis colla reflecte comis. ```Tu quoque, cui rugis uterum Lucina notavit, ````Ut celer aversis utere Parthus equis. ```Mille modi Veneris. Simplex minimique laboris, ````Cum jacet in dextrum semisupina latus, ```Sed neque Phoebei tripodes, nec comiger Ammon, ````Vera raagis vobis, quam mea Musa, canent. ```Si qua fides arti, "quam longo fecimus usu, ````Crédité: præstabunt carmiua nostra fidem. ```Sentiat ex imis Yenerem resoluta medullis ````Foemina: et ex æquo res juvet ilia duos.