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16 Erasmus as other Children are wont, with crying; but streight perch’d up and smil’d on my mother. Nor do I envy to the great Jupiter the Goat, his Nurse, forasmuch as I was suckled by two jolly Nymphs, to wit, Drunkenness, the daughter of Bacchus, and Ignorance, of Pan. And as for such my companions and followers as ye perceive about me, if you have a mind to know who they are, ye are not like to be the wiser for me, unlesse it be in Greek: This here, which you observe with that proud cast of her eye, is avria, Self-love ; She with the smiling countenance, that is ever and anon clapping her hands, is Kodaxfa, Flattery; She that looks as if she were half asleep, is Aÿ0n, Oblivion; She that sits leaning on both Elbows with her hands clutch’d together, is Micomovla, Laziness; She with the Garland on her head, and that smells so strong of perfumes, is “‘Hdovy, Pleasure; She with those staring eyes, moving here and there, is Avota, Madness; She with the smooth Skin and full pamper’d body is Tpupÿ, Wantonness ; and, as to the two Gods that ye see with them, the one is Kôpos, Intemperance, the other Nyyperos Ümvos, Dead Sleep. These, I say, are
