16. Megaera quacdam mortalis, inflamtnatrix saevientis
assidua, humani cruoris avida, etc. Ammian. Marcellin. 1.
xiv. c. 1. The sincerity of Ammianus would not suffer him to
misrepresent facts or characters, but his love of ambitioves
ornaments frequently betrayed him into an unnatural
vehemence of expression.