εἰ μὴ μάλα γέ τινες ὀλίγοι ὧν ἐγὼ ἐντετύχηκα → apart from a very few whom I've met
pōmus: i, f.I Lit., a fruit-tree of any kind (v. pomum init.), Tib. 2, 1, 43; Vulg. Cant. 5, 1.—II Transf., for pomum, fruit, Cato ap. Plin. 15, 18, 20, § 74.