Nigrinus

From the same standpoint he made a comment exactly like that of Momus. Just as the latter found fault with the god [*](Poseidon: see Hermotimus, 20.) who made the bull for not putting the horns in front of the eyes, so he censured those who wear garlands for not knowing where they should go. “If it is the scent of their violets

and roses that they like,” he said, “they certainly ought to put their garlands under their noses, as close as may be to the intake of the breath, so as to inhale the greatest possible amount of pleasure.”