ἅλμην πιόντες ἐξαπῆλθον τοῦ βίου → they drank seawater and departed from life
cūlus: i, m. perh. kindr. with κοῖλος, of a curving form; cf. 1. anus,I the posteriors, fundament, Cat. 23, 19; 33, 4; 97, 2; Mart. 3, 98, 1.
cūlus,¹³ ī, m., cul, derrière : Cic. Pis. 8 ; Catul. 23, 19.