λύχνον μεθ᾿ ἡμέραν ἅψας περιῄει λέγων “ἄνθρωπον ζητῶ” → He lit a lamp in broad daylight and said, as he went about, “I am looking for a human”
vespillo: ōnis, m.
dim. 2. vespa,
I a corpse-bearer who carried out the bodies of the poor at night, Suet. Dom. 17 fin.; Mart. 1, 48, 1; cf. vespae.