“Alterno facies sibi dat responsa rubore,
        Et tener affectum prodit utrique pudor,” &c.

       “Their faces answer, and by blushing say,
        How both affected are, they do betray.”

But the best conjectures are taken from such symptoms as appear when they are both present; all their speeches, amorous glances, actions, lascivious gestures will betray them; they cannot contain themselves, but that they will be still kissing. [5267]Stratocles, the physician, upon his wedding-day, when he was at dinner, Nihil prius sorbillavit, quam tria basia puellae pangeret, could not eat his meat for kissing the bride, &c.  First a word, and then a kiss, then some other compliment, and then a kiss, then an idle question, then a kiss, and when he had pumped his wits dry, can say no more, kissing and colling are never out of season, [5268]_Hoc non deficit incipitque semper_, ’tis never at an end, [5269]another kiss, and then another, another, and another, &c.—­huc ades O Thelayra—­Come kiss me Corinna?

[5270] “Centum basia centies,
        Centum basia millies,
        Mille basia millies,
        Et tot millia millies,
        Quot guttae Siculo mari,
          Quot sunt sidera coelo,

        Istis purpureis genis,
        Istis turgidulis labris,
        Ocelisque loquaculis,
        Figam continuo impetu;
          O formosa Neaera. (As Catullus to Lesbia.)

        Da mihi basia mille, deindi centum,
        Dein mille altera, da secunda centum,
        Dein usque altera millia, deinde centum.”

[5271]  ------“first give a hundred,
Then a thousand, then another
Hundred, then unto the other
Add a thousand, and so more,” &c.

Till you equal with the store, all the grass, &c.  So Venus did by her Adonis, the moon with Endymion, they are still dallying and culling, as so many doves, Columbatimque labra conserentes labiis, and that with alacrity and courage,

[5272] “Affligunt avide corpus, junguntque salivas
        Oris, et inspirant prensantes dentibus ora.”

[5273]_Tam impresso ore ut vix inde labra detrahant, cervice reclinata_, “as Lamprias in Lucian kissed Thais, Philippus her [5274]Aristaenetus,” amore lymphato tam uriose adhaesit, ut vix labra solvere esset, totumque os mihi contrivit; [5275]Aretine’s Lucretia, by a suitor of hers was so saluted, and ’tis their ordinary fashion.

------“dentes illudunt saepe labellis,
Atque premunt arete adfigentes oscula”------

They cannot, I say, contain themselves, they will be still not only joining hands, kissing, but embracing, treading on their toes, &c., diving into their bosoms, and that libenter, et cum delectatione, as [5276] Philostratus confesseth to his mistress; and Lamprias in Lucian, Mammillas premens, per sinum clam dextra, &c., feeling their paps, and that scarce honestly