Note 58 — Second Part.
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κοπροφάγος (Excrement-Eater). To this Martial, bk. III. Epigr. 77., seems to allude, when he says:
Nescio quod stomachi vitium secretius esse Suspicor, ut quid enim, Baetice, saprofagis?
(I suspect there exists some secret vitiation of the stomach; else why, Baeticus, do you eat putrid meat?)