A Measure of Worth

Patronius, Satyricon 57.3 (tr. J.P. Sullivan): Some fly-by-night from god knows where — not worth his own piss. larifuga nescio quis, nocturnus, qui non valet lotium suum. On lotium and similar words see J.N. Adams (1943-2021), The Latin Sexual Vocabulary (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1982; rpt. 1993), pp. 245-249. What was urine good for? For whitening, of clothes and teeth.