ἐπάμεροι· τί δέ τις; τί δ' οὔ τις; σκιᾶς ὄναρ ἄνθρωπος → Neverlasting: What is a somebody? What is a nobody? You are a dream of a shadow | Creatures of a day. What is a someone, what is a no one? Man is the dream of a shade.
sirpe: is, n. σίλφιον,
I a plant, called also silphium and laser, asafœtida, Plaut. Rud. 3, 2, 16; Sol. 27, § 48.