egregiumque decus invidiam meruit.
XII. (LXXXIV.)
De balneis Quintianis quae in via posita erant.
Fontibus in liquidis paulum requiesce, viator,
atque tuum rursus carpe refectus iter.
and who needs no external defence. He carries all his own arms; himself his own quiver, arrow, and bow. Alone he possesses all the resources of war.
But if all human activities as they grow have had their source in imitation we may see here the exemplar of combat by means of missiles. It is from him that the Cretans learned to shoot and the Parthians to strike while in flight. These did but follow the example of the animal that is armed with arrows.
X. (XCII.)
Of Beaver’s Overcoat.[67]