M. V. ATROX

Ahaena quassans tela gravi manu Sic ibat atrox Ossiani pater: Quiescat urnâ, stet fidelis Phersonius vigil ad favillam.

A golden apple sets altogether by the ears, as if a marrowbone or honeycomb were flung amongst bears: father and son, brother and sister, kinsmen are at odds: and look what malice, deadly hatred can invent, that shall be done, Terrible, dirum, pestilens, atrox, ferum, mutual injuries, desire of revenge, and how to hurt them, him and his, are all our studies.

All that is single in other melancholy, Horribile, dirum, pestilens, atrox, ferum, concur in this, it is more than melancholy in the highest degree; a burning fever of the soul; so mad, saith Jacchinus, by this misery; fear, sorrow, and despair, he puts for ordinary symptoms of melancholy.

Savit atrox Volscens, nec teli conspicit usquam Auctorem nec quo se ardens immittere possit.

Had they been formed of a gray or black alluvian earth, they must have been attributed to the "termes mordax" or the "termes atrox."