ut pueri Junonis avem, as children do on a peacock: a fair dog, a fair horse and hawk, &c. Thessalus amat equum pullinum, buculum Aegyptius, Lacedaemonius Catulum, &c., such things we love, are most gracious in our sight, acceptable unto us, and whatsoever else may cause this passion, if it be superfluous or immoderately loved, as Guianerius observes.

sacerdos Aegyptius.