"There are maxims in this writer," replied Pococurante, "whence a man of the world may reap some benefit; and the short measure of the verse makes them more easily to be retained in the memory. But I see nothing extraordinary in his journey to Brundusium, and his account of his had dinner; nor in his dirty, low quarrel between one Rupillius, whose words, as he expresses it, were full of poisonous filth; and another, whose language was dipped in vinegar.
Il y a des maximes, dit Pococurante, dont un homme du monde peut faire son profit, et qui, étant resserrées dans des vers énergiques, se gravent plus aisément dans la mémoire: mais je me soucie fort peu de son voyage à Brindes, et de sa description d'un mauvais dîner, et de la querelle de crocheteurs entre je ne sais quel Pupilus dont les paroles, dit-il, _étaient pleines de pus_, et un autre dont les paroles _étaient du vinaigre_.