Abaii says, "When I left Rabbah, I was not at all hungry; but when I arrived at Meree, they served up before me sixty dishes, with as many sorts of viands, and I ate half of each, but as for hotch-potch, which the last dish contained, I ate up all of it, and would fain have eaten up the dish too." Abaii said, "This illustrates the proverb, current among the people, 'The poor man is hungry, and does not know when he has eaten enough; or, there is always room for a tit-bit.'" _Meggillah_, fol. 7, col. 2. There are sixty kinds of wine; the best of all is the red aromatic wine, and bad white wine is the worst. _Gittin_, fol. 70, col. 1. Samson's shoulders were sixty ells broad. _Soteh_, fol. 10, col. 1. Ebal and Gerizim were sixty miles from Jordan. Ibid., fol. 36, col. 1. One who makes a good breakfast can outstrip sixty runners in a race (who have not). _Bava Kama_, fol. 92, col. 2. A (hungry) person who looks on while another eats, experiences sixty unpleasant sensations in his teeth. Ibid. His wife made him daily sixty sorts of dainties, and these restored him again. _Bava Metzia_, fol. 84, col. 2. Rabbi Blazar, the son of Rabbi Shimon, once vindictively caused a man to be put to death, merely because he had spoken of him as Vinegar the son of Wine, a round-about way of reproaching him that he was the bad son of a good father, though it turned out afterward that the condemned man deserved death for a crime that he was not known to be guilty of at the time of his execution; yet the mind of the Rabbi was ill at ease, and he voluntarily did penance by subjecting himself in a peculiar fashion to great bodily suffering. Sixty woolen cloths were regularly spread under him every night, and these were found soaked in the morning with his profuse perspiration. The result of this was greater and greater bodily prostration, which his wife strove, as related above, day after day to repair, detaining him from college, lest the debates there should prove too much for his weakened frame. When his wife found that he persisted in courting these sufferings, and that her tender care, as well as her own patrimony, were being lavished on him in vain, she tired of her assiduity, and left him to his fate. And now, waited on by some sailors, who believed they owed to him deliverance from a watery grave, he was free to do as he liked. One day, being ministered to by them after a night's perspiration of the kind referred to, he went straight to college, and there decided sixty doubtful cases against the unanimous dissent of the assembly. Providential circumstances, which happened afterward, both proved that he was right in his judgment and that his wife was wrong in suffering her fondness for him to stand in the way of the performance of his public duties.