1 A striking fact is the frequency of words like “intestines” and “belly” in Chinese poetry. E.g., “The bamboo shoots are fresh and my rice bowl is too small; the fish is delicious, and my wine-intestines widen.”
2 Atheneus, The Deipnosophists.
3 Eteocles and Polynices were the two sons of Oedipus who killed one another in the internecine strife at Thebes.
4 Robert Herrick, An Ode for Ben Jonson.
5 The proprietor.
6 From The Tempest, by William Shakespeare.