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True, she had not the strength of Staphyla, and was of very little use in the house, but she could soon find her way about the town, as well as if she had the eyes of Argus; and when one morning she brought us home a handful of sesterces, which she said she had got from selling some flowers she had gathered in our poor little garden, we thought the gods had sent her to us.
The aggrieved individuals, who are either too weak or too indolent to scale the numberless peaks of Lowell's genius, may comfort themselves with the reflection that the treasures of their minds will never be tesselated into the mosaic of any satirist's fancy, for in them can abound only emptiness and cobwebs as saith the Staphyla of Plautus:
Now you must explain all this to me, unless you would have me use you as ill as Euclio does Staphyla in the Aulularia." "Lordsake, sir," replied the mendicant, "what do I ken about your Howlowlaria? it's mair like a dog's language than a man's." "You knew, however, of the box of treasure being there?" continued Oldbuck.
Now you must explain all this to me, unless you would have me use you as ill as Euclio does Staphyla in the Aulularia." "Lordsake, sir," replied the mendicant, "what do I ken about your Howlowlaria? it's mair like a dog's language than a man's." "You knew, however, of the box of treasure being there?" continued Oldbuck.
How came I by Nydia, thou askest. 'Ay! 'Why, thou seest, my slave Staphyla thou rememberest Staphyla, Niger? 'Ay, a large-handed wench, with a face like a comic mask. How should I forget her, by Pluto, whose handmaid she doubtless is at this moment! 'Tush, brute! Well, Staphyla died one day, and a great loss she was to me, and I went into the market to buy me another slave.
But, by the gods! they were all grown so dear since I had bought poor Staphyla, and money was so scarce, that I was about to leave the place in despair, when a merchant plucked me by the robe. "Mistress," said he, "dost thou want a slave cheap I have a child to sell a bargain.
So I work for myself, but I shall soon afford from her earnings to buy me a second Staphyla; doubtless, the Thessalian kidnapper had stolen the blind girl from gentle parents. Besides her skill in the garlands, she sings and plays on the cithara, which also brings money, and lately but that is a secret. 'That is a secret! What! cried Lydon, 'art thou turned sphinx? 'Sphinx, no! why sphinx?
No trait of the universal face is lacking in the profile of Paris. The bal Mabile is not the polymnia dance of the Janiculum, but the dealer in ladies' wearing apparel there devours the lorette with her eyes, exactly as the procuress Staphyla lay in wait for the virgin Planesium. The Barriere du Combat is not the Coliseum, but people are as ferocious there as though Caesar were looking on.
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