Note 127 — XXIV (A I, 19)
Evelyn S. (Evelyn Shirley) Shuckburgh translation
Cn. Cornelius Lentulus Clodianus, consul in B.C. 72. Cicero puns on the name Lentulus from lens (pulse, φακή), and quotes a Greek proverb for things incongruous. See Athenæus, 160 (from the Necuia of Sopater):
Ἴθακος Ὀδυσσεὺς, τὸ ἐκὶ τῇ φακῇ μύρον πάρεστι· θάρσει, θυμέ.