IX.—Mercury.

Let your Mercury be depicted with a Saraballum, and with wings on his helmet or his cap, and in other respects naked.  I see a marvellous thing, a god flying with a little satchel.  Run, poor creatures, with your lap spread open when he flies, that he may empty his satchel:  do ye from thence be prepared.  Look on the painted one, since he will thus cast you money from on high:  then dance ye securely.  Vain man, art thou not mad, to worship painted gods in heaven?  If thou knowest not how to live, continue to dwell with the beasts.

IX.---MERCURIUS.

Mercurius vester fiat cum Saraballo depictus. Et galeam aut pileum pinnatus, et caetera nudus. 0208A Rem video miram, deum cum saccello volare. Currite pauperculi cum gremio quo volat ille, Ut sacculum effundat; vos extunc estote parati. Respicite pictum, quoniam vobis sic ab alto Jactabit nummos; vos tunc saltate securi. Vane, non insanis? colere deos pictos in axe? Si vivere nescis, cum bestiis perge morari.