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Titus Livius speaking of our nation: "Intolerantissima laboris corpora vix arma humeris gerebant." Many nations do yet, and did anciently, go to war without defensive arms, or with such, at least, as were of very little proof: "Tegmina queis capitum, raptus de subere cortex."
The men who, in Meriadoc, were to execute the prince and princess concealed themselves in a hollow tree, which had an entrance that was so formed that "depressis humeris, illam necesse erat subire," which is suggestive of the stooping that would probably be necessary in entering an underground passage.
The well-known Gothamite jest of the man who put a sack of meal on his own shoulders to save his horse, and then got on the animal's back and rode home, had been previously told of a man of Norfolk, thus: "Ad foram ambulant diebus singulis; Saccum de lolio portant in humeris, Jumentis ne noccant: bene fatuis, Ut prolocutiis sum acquantur bestiis."
De Vita Propria, ch. xxxii. p. 99. In describing Fazio, Jerome writes: "Erat Euclidis operum studiosus, et humeris incurvis: et filius meus natu major ore, oculis, incessu, humeris, illi simillimus." De Vita Propria, ch. iii. p. 8. In the same chapter Fazio is described as "Blæsus in loquendo; variorum studiorum amator: ruber, oculis albis et quibus noctu videret."
As to Milo see n. on 27. For cum sustineret a modern would have been inclined to use a participle, which was perhaps avoided here because of the close proximity of another participle, ingressus. UMERIS: this spelling is better than humeris, which is now abandoned by the best scholars. HAS: i.e. Milonis, corresponding to Pythagorae.
That the fall from an height was with an accelerated velocity; but to lift a weight up to that height again was difficult, and opposed by the laws of physical and political gravitation. In a political view, France was low indeed. She had lost everything, even to her name. Jacet ingens littore truncus, Avolsumque humeris caput, et sine nomine corpus.
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