38. He represents, in the most pathetic terms (p. 277), the
distress of his new situation. The provision for his table
was however so elegant and sumptuous, that the young
philosopher rejected it with disdain. Quum legeret libellum
assidue, quem Constantius ut privignum ad studia mittens
manu sua conscripserat, praelicenter disponens quid in
convivio Caesaris impendi deberet, Phasianum, et vulvam et
sumen exigi petuit et inferri. Ammian. Marcellin. l. xvi. c.
5.