Baucis & Philemon 26-35

interea medias fallunt sermonibus horas

Meanwhile they while away the intervening hours in conversation

sentirique moram prohibent. erat alveus illic

and do not let a delay be felt. There was a bowl there

fagineus, dura clavo suspensus ab ansa;

made of beechwood, hanging by its strong handle from a nail;

is tepidis impletur aquis artusque fovendos

this is filled with warm water and it receives their limbs for refreshing.

​accipit. In medio torus est de mollibus ulvis,

In the middle is a mattress of soft sedge,

impositus lecto sponda pedibusque salignis.

placed on the couch with a frame of willow feet.

vestibus hunc velant, quas non nisi tempore festo

They cover this with coverings, which, apart from in holiday time,

sternere consuerant: sed et haec vilisque vetusque

they were not accustomed to spreading: but even this was both a cheap and old

vestis erat, lecto non indignanda saligno.

covering not unworthy of a willow bed.

accubuere dei.

The gods reclined.