A dry morsel— Bread with pulse, or husks. Bochart and Houbigant. This was the food of meaner persons; whence Horace says, Epist. 1: lib. 2: line 123.
Vivit siliquis et pane secundo:
Lives on coarse bread and vegetable fare.
DUNCOMBE.
This verse is plainly similar to the 16th and 17th of chap. 15: