Note 8 — BOOK II.
Rowland Smith translation
Literally, persons who make request for valuable gifts, such as swords and tripods, rather than mendicants who beg for broken victuals. Cnemon must mean to say that nature had written "gentleman and gentlewoman" too plainly upon their faces for them to pass current as genuine vagrants. The line quoted is in the Odyssey, B. xvii. l. 222.
... "he seeks Not sword nor tripod, but the scoundrel meed Of mammocks, such as others cast away."—Cowper.