Note 75 — Chapter IV · ENNIUS.
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Another passage, ascribed to Ennius, descriptive of the greed of a parasite, occupies the ground common to Roman comedy and to Roman satire:—
Quippe sine cura laetus lautus cum advenis Insertis malis, expedito bracchio Alacer, celsus, lupino expectans impetu, Mox cum alterius obligurias bona, Quid censes domino esse animi? pro divum fidem! Ille tristis cibum dum servat, tu ridens voras.