s, in an epistle sent to Lucretia, his
mistress, complains amongst other grievances, _tu mihi et somni et cibi
usum abstulisti_, thou hast taken my stomach and my sleep from me. So he
describes it aright:

[5247] _His sleep, his meat, his drink, in him bereft,
That lean he waxeth, and dry as a shaft,
His eyes hollow and grisly to behold,
His hew pale and ashen to unfold,
And solitary he was ever alone,
And waking all the night making moan_.

Theocritus _Edyl. 2._ makes a fair maid of Delphos, in love with a young
man of Minda, confess as much,

"Ut vidi ut insanii, ut animus mihi male affectiis est,
Miserae mihi forma tabescebat, neque amplius pompam
Ullum curabam, aut quando domum redieram
Novi, sed me ardens quidam morbus consumebat,
Decubui in lecto dies decem, et noctes decem,
Defluebant capite capilli, ipsaque sola reliqua
Ossa et cutis"------

"No sooner seen I had, but mad I was.
My beauty fail'd, and I no more did care
For any pomp, I knew not where I was,
But sick I was, and evil I did fare;
I lay upon my bed ten days and nights,
A skeleton I was in all men's sights."

All these passions are well expressed by [5248]that heroical poet in the
person of Dido:

"At non infelix animi Phaenissa, nec unquam
Solvitur in somnos, oculisque ac pectore amores
Accipit; ingeminant curae, rursusque resurgens
Saevit amor," &c.------

"Unhappy Dido could not sleep at all,
But lies awake, and takes no rest:
And up she gets again, whilst care and grief,
And raging love torment her breast."

Accius Sanazarius _Egloga 2. de Galatea_, in the same manner feigns his
Lychoris [5249]tormenting herself for want of sleep, sighing, sobbing, and
lamenting; and Eustathius in his Ismenias much troubled, and [5250]
"panting at heart, at the sight of his mistress," he could not sleep, his
bed was thorns. [5251]All make leanness, want of appetite, want of sleep
ordinary symptoms, and by that means they are brought often so low, so much
altered and changed, that as [5252]he jested in the comedy, "one scarce
know them to be the same men."

"Attenuant juvenum vigilatae corpora noctes,
Curaque et immenso qui fit amore dolor."

Many such symptoms there are of the body to discern lovers by,--_quis enim
bene celet amor