Whoso has married once and again seeks a second wedding, is a shipwrecked man who sails twice through a difficult gulf. XIII THE MARRIED MAN PALLADAS If you boast high that you are not obedient to your wife's commands, you talk idly, for you are not sprung of oak or rock, as the saying is; and, as is the hard case with most or all of us, you too are in woman's rule. But if you say, "I am not struck with a slipper, nor my wife being unchaste have I to bear it and shut my eyes," I reply that your bondage is lighter, in that you have sold yourself to a reasonable and not to too hard a mistress. XIV AN UNGROUNDED SCANDAL LUCILIUS Some say, Nicylla, that you dye your hair; which is as black as can be bought in the market. XV THE POPULAR SINGER NICARCHUS The night-raven's song is deadly; but when Demophilus sings, the very night-raven dies. XVI THE FAULTLESS DANCER PALLADAS Snub-nosed Memphis danced Daphnis and Niobe; Daphne like a stock, Niobe like a stone. XVII THE FORTUNATE PAINTER LUCILIUS Eutychus the portrait-painter got twenty sons, and never got one likeness, even among his children. XVIII SLOW AND SURE NICARCHUS Charmus ran for the three miles in Arcadia with five others; surprising to say, he actually came in seventh. When there were only six, perhaps you will say, how seventh? A friend of his went along in his great-coat crying, "Keep it up, Charmus!" and so he arrives seventh; and if only he had had five more friends, Zoïlus, he would have come in twelfth. XIX MARCUS THE RUNNER LUCILIUS Marcus once saw midnight out in the armed men's race, so that the race-course was all locked up, as the police all thought that he was one of the stone men in armour who stand there in honour of victors. Very well, it was opened next day, and then Marcus turned up, still short of the goal by the whole course. XX HERMOGENES LUCILIUS Little Hermogenes, when he lets anything fall on the ground, has to drag it down to him with a hook at the end of a pole. XXI PHANTASMS OF THE LIVING LUCILIUS