kallibistris

Updated: August 5, 2026

I see that the sine quo nons, kallibistris, or contrapunctums of the women of this country are better cheap than stones. Of them should the walls be built, ranging them in good symmetry by the rules of architecture, and placing the largest in the first ranks, then sloping downwards ridge-wise, like the back of an ass.

François Rabelais - Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 2