Adjuncts
Plin. I am surprised that you notice anything particularly, for you sleep and snore so soundly.
Epict. No one sleeps better than he who does not feel how badly he is sleeping.
Plin. None of the insects with which we are troubled in bed in summer disgust me so much as the bugs because of their ghastly odour.
Epict. Of which there is a good supply in Paris and Lyons.
Plin. At Paris there is a kind of wood which produces them, and in Lyons the potter’s earth. Place my alarum-clock here, and place the pointer for four o’clock in the morning, for I don’t wish to sleep later. Take my shoes off, and place here the folding-chair in which I may sit. Let the chamber-crockery be set near the bed on a foot-stool. I don’t know what it is that causes a bad smell here. Fumigate with frankincense or juniper. Sing to me something on the lyre as I go to bed after the custom of Pythagoras, so that I may the more quickly fall asleep, and my dreams may be the more peaceful.
Epict.
Somne, quies rerum, placidissime, somne, deorum,
Pax animi, quem cura fugit, qui corpora duris
Fessa ministeriis mulces, reparasque labori.57
Ovid, Metamorph. book xi. ll. 623–623.