o'erweave

Updated: June 21, 2025

my lance I'll leave Laid by, for spiders to o'erweave, and remembered with joy the saying, In peace, they who sleep are awaked by the cock-crow, not by the trumpet. So shutting their ears, with loud reproaches, to the forebodings of those who said that the Fates decreed this to be a war of thrice nine years, the whole question having been debated, they made a peace.

Plutarch - Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans