"Why then firstly, lord, firstly we have the great Mangon or mangonel, fundis fundibula, that some do also term catapultum, the which worketh by torsion and shall heave you great stones of the bigness of a man fully two hundred yards an it be dry weather; next is the Trebuchet, like to the mangon save that it swingeth by counterpoise; next cometh the Balista or Springald that worketh by tensiona pretty weapon!

He was a "fundi" at taking out jiggers, and sat for hours at the feet of our foot-soldiers; quickly adopting an air of authority that occasionally brought him swift blows from East African troopers, who do not tolerate easily such airs in a native, he produced the unbroken jigger flea with unfailing regularity and prescribed the pail of disinfectant in which the tortured feet were soaked.

Of these four classes the third was in the course of this period almost completely set aside, inasmuch as the course which had been earlier taken with the communities of passive burgesses in Latium and Sabina, was now applied also to those of the former Volscian territory, and these graduallythe last perhaps being in the year 566 Arpinum, Fundi, and Formiaeobtained full burgess-rights.

Why does not the Barrister try his hand at the "abominable profanation," in a story of a certain woman with an issue of blood who was made free by touching the hem of a garment, without the previous knowledge of the wearer? 'Rode, caper, vitem: tamen hinc cum stabis ad aras, In tua quod fundi cornua possit, erit'.

'Hic Secura quies, et nescia fallere vita, Dives opum variarum; hic latis otia fundis, Speluncæ, vivique lacus, hic frigida Tempe, Mugitusque boum, mollesque sub arbore somni.' Virg.

p. 215.)"Calamity" is from the Latin calamitas, from calamus a straw or stalk of corn, signifying, 1st, the agricultural misfortune of the corn being beaten down or laid by a storm; and thence, any other trouble or disaster: "Ipsa egreditur nostri fundi calamitas.

'Hic Secura quies, et nescia fallere vita, Dives opum variarum; hic latis otia fundis, Speluncæ, vivique lacus, hic frigida Tempe, Mugitusque boum, mollesque sub arbore somni.' Virg.

The audacity of their methods is illustrated by the raid on Fundi in 1534, when Barbarossa swooped down on that town simply to seize Giulia Gonzagareputed the loveliest woman in Italyfor the Sultan's harem: the fair Duchess of Trajetto hardly escaped in her nightdress.