Note 171 — OVID'S ELEGIES.
Reading edition
"Nigri non illa parentem Memnonis in roseis sobria vidit equis."
Cunningham suggests that "wise" was "one of the thousand and one euphemisms for 'inebriated.'"
Reading edition
"Nigri non illa parentem Memnonis in roseis sobria vidit equis."
Cunningham suggests that "wise" was "one of the thousand and one euphemisms for 'inebriated.'"