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 It is not a hard task to define
grossness it is shameless and disgusting jesting. lie gross man insults
free-born ladies. In a theatre he keeps on clapping his hands when every
one else is finished, and hisses the performers who have taken the fancy
of the rest of the audience. When the market- place is crowded he goes
up to a stall where walnuts or myrtleberries or fruits are sold and stands
eating away from pure greed, talking all the time to the seller. He calls
by name a person he only knows slightly, and should GARNULITY 29 he see
people in a great hurry he bids them stop. He runs up to a man leaving
the court, having just been worsted in a great action and ofters him his
congratulations. He does all his shopping and hiring of fitite-giris himself.
He shows to all he meets the dainties he has bought, and invites them
to come up and eat them with him. He passes the remark as he stands at
the barber’s or perfume-sellers that be intends to get drunk. He speaks
words of ill-omen when his mother departs to consult the fortune- teller,
and when people are at their devotions and pouring ibations he lets fall
his cup,’ and laughs as if he bad done something witty. When the flute-girl
is playing he alone claps his hands, and hums the air and asks angrily
why she stopped so soon. When he desires to spit he does it across the
table at the cupbearer.
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