In the twenty-eighth chapter of Aristotle's Secretum Secretorum appears a story in which "a queen of India is said to have treacherously sent to Alexander, among other costly presents, the pretended testimonies of friendship, a girl of exquisite beauty, who, having been fed with serpents from her infancy, partook of their nature."

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Secretion (Lat. secerno, secretum, to separate).

Secretum Abbatis, apud Selden, Titles of Honour, p. 573. Spellm.

Nihil animum cruciat, nihil molestius inquietat, secretum virus, pestis occulta, &c. epist.

quodammodo proba bonitas conscientiae secretum, Boethius, l. 1. pros.

Secretum iter et fallentis Semita vitæ.

Secretum iter et fallentis Semita vitæ.

SATURDAY, MARCH 2, 1754. Quid pure tranquillet; honos, an dulce lucellum, An secretum iter, et fallentis semita vitae.