Porcis volentibus lætissime epulabimur:
Please the pigs we'll have a jolly good dinner.
The pig had divine honours paid to it by the ancient Greeks. --Jos.
Scalig. de Myst. Eleusin.
An ablative case of the part affected, and by the poets an accusative
case, is added to some verbs, as
Qui animo ægrotat, eum aera risum moventem ducere oportet.
He who is sick in mind should breathe the laughing gas.
Much learned controversy has been expended in endeavouring to determine
whether this gas was the exhalation by which it is supposed that the
ancient Pythonesses were affected.
Rubet nasum:
His nose is red.
Candet genas:
His cheeks are pale.