she-puss

Updated: May 28, 2025

Nor at that of the Italian buried on the Via Flaminia at Rome, who in his epitaph complains that the bite of a she-puss on his little finger was the cause of his death. Nor of that of Q. Lecanius Bassus, who died suddenly of so small a prick with a needle on his left thumb that it could hardly be discerned.

François Rabelais - Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 4