CHOMMODA dicebat, si quando commoda uellet 1 ARRIUS, if he wanted to say "winnings " used to say "whinnings",

dicere, et insidias Arrius hinsidias, 2 and for "ambush" "hambush";

et tum mirifice sperabat se esse locutum, 3 and thought he had spoken marvellous well,

cum quantum poterat dixerat hinsidias. 4 whenever he said "hambush" with as much emphasis as possible.

credo, sic mater, sic liber auunculus eius. 5 So, no doubt, his mother had said, so his uncle the freedman,

sic maternus auus dixerat atque auia. 6 so his grandfather and grandmother on the mother's side.

hoc misso in Syriam requierant omnibus aures 7 When he was sent into Syria, all our ears had a holiday;

audibant eadem haec leniter et leuiter, 8 they heard the same syllables pronounced quietly and lightly,

nec sibi postilla metuebant talia uerba, 9 and had no fear of such words for the future:

cum subito affertur nuntius horribilis, 10 when on a sudden a dreadful message arrives,

Ionios fluctus, postquam illuc Arrius isset, 11 that the Ionian waves, ever since Arrius went there,