76. Ad nefandos cibos erupit esurientium rabies, et sua
invicem membra aniarunt dum mater non parcit lactenti
infantiae; et recipit utero, quem paullo ante effuderat.
Jerom. ad. Principiam, tom. i. p. 121 [Ep. cxxvii. tom. i.
p. 953, ed. Vallars.]. The same horrid circumstance is
likewise told of the sieges of Jerusalem and Paris. For the
latter, compare the tenth book of the Henriade, and the
Journal de Henri IV. tom. i. p. 47-83; and observe that a
plain narrative of facts is much more pathetic than the most
laboured descriptions of epic poetry.