He was probably of Arab origin.] Pentaur was known as a mighty laugher among his companions, and his loud voice rung in the quiet room, when he discovered that his friend was about to put a third clean robe over two dirty ones, and wear no less than three dresses at once.
Nebsecht laughed too, and said, "Now I know why my clothes were so heavy, and felt so intolerably hot at noon.

While I get rid of my superfluous clothing, will you go and ask the high-priest if I have leave to quit the temple." "He commissioned me to send a leech to the paraschites, and added that the girl was to be treated like a queen." "Ameni?
and did he know that we have to do with a paraschites ?" "Certainly." "Then I shall begin to believe that broken limbs may be set with vows-aye, vows! You know I cannot go alone to the sick, because my leather tongue is unable to recite the sentences or to wring rich offerings for the temple from the dying.

Go, while I undress, to the prophet Gagabu and beg him to send the pastophorus Teta, who usually accompanies me." "I would seek a young assistant rather than that blind old man." "Not at all.

I should be glad if he would stay at home, and only let his tongue creep after me like an eel or a slug.

Head and heart have nothing to do with his wordy operations, and they go on like an ox treading out corn." [In Egypt, as in Palestine, beasts trod out the corn, as we learn from many pictures in the catacombs, even in the remotest ages; often with the addition of a weighted sledge, to the runners of which rollers are attached.