lapathium

Updated: May 11, 2025

Thus did Amphion with the melody of his harp found, build, and finish the great and renowned city of Thebes. I shall not fail therein, par lapathium acutum de dieu; if Mars fail not in Lent, which the cunning lecher, I warrant you, will be loth to do.

François Rabelais - Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3