supereminet

Updated: May 28, 2025

About thirty years before Gulliver's Travels appeared, Addison wrote these lines: "Jamque acies inter medias sese arduus infert Pygmeadum ductor, qui, majestate verendus, Incessuque gravis, reliquos supereminet omnes Mole gigantea, mediamque exsurgit in ulnam."

Baron Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay - Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 2