De parasito sive artem esse parasiticam

Everybody knows, too, that those who ply the rest of the arts drudge all the time except one or two days a month which they celebrate as holidays,[*](The manuscripts add: “and the cities too hold some feasts once a year and others once a month.” ) and are said to have their good time then. But the parasite celebrates thirty holidays a month, for he thinks that every day belongs to the gods.