"Bruta" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... "like spears and arrows, to charm the hearts of men": "veluti jacula et sagittae ad effascinandorum corda." And it carries disease and death, as well as love and delight, in its course: "Totumque corpus inficiunt, atque ita (nulla interposita mora) arbores, segetes, bruta animalia et homines perniciosa qualitate inficiunt et ad interitum deducunt." Vairus relates that a friend of his saw a fascinator simply with a look break in two a precious gem while in the hands of the artist who was working upon it. Horace ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 32, June, 1860 • Various |
